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The Origins of About Your Sexuality The Origins of About Your Sexuality
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About Your Sexuality, 1971–1997 About Your Sexuality, 1971–1997
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Our Whole Lives, 1994–2010 Our Whole Lives, 1994–2010
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Planned Parenthood and Sexuality Education Planned Parenthood and Sexuality Education
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Get Real: Comprehensive Sex Education That Works Get Real: Comprehensive Sex Education That Works
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Epilogue Epilogue
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10 Sex Education and Community Values: Risk Reduction or Sexual Health and Justice
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Published:January 2022
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Abstract
Today’s sexuality education emphasizes risk reduction rather than sexual health and pleasure, Mary Calderone’s original vision. Some programs, developed outside the school system, do show possibilities for something richer and more positive. This chapter describes the history of two such programs, those of the Unitarian Universalist Association and of the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts. But even these programs run into opposition from parents who must be respectfully engaged in preparatory education to disarm many understandable fears and misunderstandings. And even so, disputes do arise. The chapter concludes with a brief discussion of a recent—ultimately successful—campaign in Worcester, Massachusetts, New England’s second largest city, to launch a comprehensive sex-education program. Interference from outside organizations such as Focus on the Family and a lack of inclusiveness in the planning process initially frightened the local School Committee and many families into opposing it. The campaign was successful only after a three-year effort. Sex education has changed over the decades in some ways, but its fundamentally defensive and fearful approach to sexuality still prevails in much of the country.
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