Cover -- Teaching Moral Sex -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Archival Collections -- Introduction: Liberal Protestants and the Sex Education Movement -- 1. Medical Men, Moralists, and the Roots of Sex Education -- 2. Moral Education about Sex in the YMCA and Military -- 3. Church, Sex, and "Judeo-Christian" Family Life Education -- 4. The New Morality of Comprehensive Sexuality Education -- 5. Abstinence-Only and the Struggle to Define Sex Education -- Epilogue: The Swinging Pendulum of Sex Education -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary
Teaching Moral Sex is the first comprehensive study of the role of religion in the history of public sex education in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first. Far from being a barrier to sex education, Kristy Slominski demonstrates, religion has been deeply embedded in the history of sex education, and its legacy has shaped the terms of current debates