Sex Education

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/25/2023
  

  Florida Legislation Recalls the Tragic History behind Fights for Sex Education

  Legislation that would bar discussion of menstruation in Florida schools will likely put girls at risk of emotional distress when their periods begin. Historians stress that women have always sought this information despite stigmas against providing it. 

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• SOURCE: FiveThirtyEight
  7/12/2021
  

  First It Was Sex Ed. Now It’s Critical Race Theory

  Republican attacks on cultural issues within America’s public schools follow a familiar pattern.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/6/2021
  

  Retro Report Presents: How an Abstinence Pledge in the ’90s Shamed a Generation of Evangelicals

  Retro Report's latest collaboration with the New York Times examines the roots and social impact of Evangelical purity culture, both for individuals and American society's approach to sexuality. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Observer
  12/8/2020
  

  The Long, Winding Road that Led to the SBOE’s Decision for Texas Schools to Teach Abstinence-Plus Sex Education

  As with social studies, sex education in Texas has been subject to the control of social conservatives in positions of power in the state's educational establishment, demonstrating how the movement has shaped textbooks and curriculum for a generation. This may gradually be changing. 

• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  8/11/2020
  

  “The Sex Lady Talks”: Disability Rights and the Normalization of Sex in a 1980s Institution

  by Elizabeth A. Nelson, Emily S. Beckman, and Modupe Labode

  Therapist Lisa Freeman bucked the authorities of an Indiana psychiatric hospital to advocate for the right of residents to have consensual sex and sex education. Her work shows the ways that paternalistic values are embedded in state treatment of people with disabilities. 

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-9-15
  

  The World’s Problem With Sex Ed

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Globalization has served to curtail rather than expand school-based sexual instruction. The more the world has become interconnected, the more sex ed has come under attack.