3. Susan N. Wilson, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Word?"
4. Jane D Brown, "Sexuality and the Mass Media: An Overview,"
5. I borrow this term from Agnes Repellier, "The Repeal of Reticence,"
6. The term
7. Quoted in Judith H. Dobrzynski, "A Popular Couple Charged into the Future of Art, but in Opposite Directions,"
8. "Child's Eye View,"
9. Sherry Turkle,
10. Roy Porter, "Forbidden Pleasures: Enlightenment Literature of Sexual Advice," in
11. New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children,
12. Repellier, "The Repeal of Reticence."
13. Ira S. Wile, "The Sexual Problems of Adolescents,"
14. Bernard Weintraub, "Fun for the Whole Family,"
15. Samuel S. Janus and Barbara E. Bess, "Latency: Fact or Fiction?"
16. Right-wing fundamentalist Christians are today's firmest articulators of the view from Genesis, that philandering with worldly experience can lead to no good. One of their conspiracy narratives dates the fall of American civilization to the takeover of Harvard University by Unitarians, the country's preeminent educational institution hijacked by its preeminent doubters. Conservative opposition to sex education, similarly, is always connected with opposition to other forms of moral questioning and intellectual exploration at school, from values clarification to creative spelling.
17. See Roger Shattuck's
18. Nicole Wise, "A Curious Time,"
19. Janice Irvine, "Cultural Differences and Adolescent Sexualities," in
20. Interview with Leonore Tiefer, May 1996.
21. This is still true in many non-Western cultures and Western ethnic subcultures, which is why HIV/AIDS workers have coined the term "men who have sex with men," or MSM, to reach people who don't identify as gay but may still engage in so-called gay sex.
22. Anne C. Bernstein,
23. Elizabeth Kolbert, "Americans Despair of Popular Culture,"
24. Marjorie Heins,
25. While the courts have often balked at censorship of books and films, because presumably a child could be kept from seeing them, they have upheld "safe-harbor" restrictions in numerous cases involving radio and television broadcasting. A landmark decision came in 1978, when the New York listener-supported Pacifica radio station WBAI aired the comedian George Carlin's baroque exegesis of the "Seven Filthy Words" that the Federal Communications Commission prohibited from the airwaves:
26. Barbara Miner, "Internet Filtering: Beware the Cybercensors,"
27.