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  title info:
    title: Harmful to minors
    sub title: the perils of protecting children from sex
  name:
    name part: Levine, Judith
    name part: 1952-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mnu
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxxv, 299 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: Sex is a wonderful, crucial part of growing up, and children and teens can enjoy the pleasures of the body and be safe, too. In this book Judith Levine makes this argument and goes further, asserting that America's attempts to protect children from sex are worse than ineffectual. It is the assumption of danger and the exclusive focus on protection--what Levine terms "the sexual politics of fear"--That are themselves harmful to minors. Through interviews with young people and their parents, stories drawn from today's headlines, visits to classrooms and clinics, and a look back at the ways sex among children and teenagers has been viewed throughout history, Judith Levine debunks some of the dominant myths of our society. She examines and challenges widespread anxieties (pedophilia, stranger kidnapping, Internet pornography) and sacred cows (abstinence-based sex education, statutory rape laws). Levine investigates the policies and practices that affect kids' sex lives--censorship, psychology, sex and AIDS education, family, criminal, and reproductive law, and the journalism that begs for "solutions" while inciting more fear. Harmful to minors offers fresh alternatives to fear and silence, describing sex-positive approaches that are ethically based and focus on common sense. Levine provides optimistic, though realistic, prescriptions for how we might do better in guiding children toward loving well--that is, safely, pleasurably, and with respect for others and themselves.
  table of contents: Censorship: the sexual media and the ambivalence of knowing -- Manhunt: the pedophile panic -- Therapy: "children who molest" and the tyranny of the normal -- Crimes of passion: statutory rape and the denial of female desire -- No-sex education: from "chastity" to "abstinence" -- Compulsory motherhood: the end of abortion -- The expurgation of pleasure -- The facts ... and truthful fictions -- What is wanting? gender, equality, and desire -- Good touch: a sensual education -- Community: risk, identity, and love in the age of AIDS.
  note: Judith Levine ; foreword by Joycelyn M. Elders.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, 2002
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Sex instruction
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Sex instruction
  subject:
    topic: Psychosexual development
  subject:
    topic: Sex Education
  subject:
    topic: Sexuality
  subject:
    topic: Psychosexual Development
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Éducation sexuelle
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Éducation sexuelle
  subject:
    topic: Développement psychosexuel
  subject:
    topic: Psychosexual development
  subject:
    topic: Sex instruction
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Seksuele opvoeding
  subject:
    topic: Bescherming
  subject:
    topic: Onwetendheid
  subject:
    topic: Gevaarlijkheid
  subject:
    topic: Sex instruction
    geographic: United States
  classification: HQ56 .L3255 2002
  classification: 306.7/0973
  classification: 2002 E-812
  classification: HQ 56 L6648h 2002
  classification: 80.47
  identifier: 0816640068
  identifier: 9780816640065
  identifier: 2001006553
  identifier: http://site.ebrary.com/id/10159547
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      url: http://site.ebrary.com/id/10159547
  location:
    physical location: TAG TAGC
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 011026
    record change date: 20240808224716.6
    record identifier: in00004816585
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng