44. I also asked the prominent sexologist and therapist Leonore Tiefer about these relationships. She said: "You have to take into account the subjectivity and the realm of experience of each individual young person. You can't explain this stuff with universals—with sociobiology or sociology. The power issues are not wiped out" by individual explanations, however; "they are complicated." Tiefer gave the example of Monica Lewinsky. "On one hand, you could say she's powerful: she got the leader of the free world to desire her. On the other, there is a certain powerlessness and displacement of ambition" onto the sexual conquest.
45. Phillips, "Recasting Consent," 87.
46. Martin J. Costello,
47. Elstein and Davis, "Sexual Relations between Adult Men and Young Teen Girls," 19.
48. Most states allow youngsters to drive, and even to marry, before they may have unmarried sexual intercourse. In Massachusetts at this writing, a person can marry at twelve, but if someone who is not her husband inserts his finger into her vagina when she is fifteen, even with her express consent, he can be charged with statutory rape. Under a section of the state's legal code entitled "Crimes against Chastity, etc.," taking a picture of her naked seventeen-year-old buttocks will earn the photographer up to twenty years in prison.
49. In 1993 in New Mexico it was thirteen; by 1998, it was seventeen; in Maine it went from fourteen to eighteen in the same years. "The Geography of Desire,"
50. Males,
5. No-Sex Education
1. Joyce Purnick, "Where Chastity Is Not Virtuous,"
2. My suspicion is the word
3.
4. Social Security Act, Title V, Section 510 (1997), Maternal and Child Health Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
5. David J. Landry, Lisa Kaeser, and Cory L. Richards, "Abstinence Promotion and the Provision of Information about Contraception in Public School District Sexuality Education Policies,"
6. "Changes in Sexuality Education from 1988-1999," SEICUS,
7. Diana Jean Schemo, "Survey Finds Parents Favor More Detailed Sex Education,"
8. Joyce Purnick, "Welfare Bill: Legislating Morality?"
9. Patricia Campbell,
10. F. Valentine, "Education in Sexual Subjects,"
11. Benjamin C. Gruenberg,
12. Evelyn Duvall,
13. Mary S. Calderone, "A Distinguished Doctor Talks to Vassar College Freshmen about Love and Sex,"
14.
15. Handman and Brennan,