Harmful to Minors

This is the first paperback edition of Levine's controversial book challenging American attitudes towards child/adolescent sexuality--especially attitudes promulgated by a Christian right that has effectively seized control of how sex is taught in public schools.

Foreword

ix

Dr Joycelyn M. Elders

Author's Note

xiii

Acknowledgments

xv

Introduction Peril and Pleasure, Parenting and Childhood

xix

I. Harmful Protection

Censorship

3

(17)

The Sexual Media and the Ambivalence of Knowing

Manhunt

20

(25)

The Pedophile Panic

Therapy

45

(23)

``Children Who Molest'' and the Tyranny of the Normal

Crimes of Passion

68

(22)

Statutory Rape and the Denial of Female Desire

No-Sex Education

90

(27)

From ``Chastity'' to ``Abstinence''

Compulsory Motherhood

117

(10)

The End of Abortion

Expurgation of Pleasure

127

(14)

II. Sense and Sexuality

The Facts

141

(14)

...and Truthful Fictions

What Is Waiting?

155

(23)

Gender, Equality, and Desire

Good Touch

178

(21)

A Sensual Education

Community

199

(19)

Risk, Identity, and Love in the Age of AIDS

Epilogue Morality

218

(9)

Notes

227

(50)

Index

277

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