Description: "A rich social history of how the American right wing used sex education as one of its first battlegrounds on which to build a political movement and regulate sexual morality by controlling sexual speech"--
Review Quotes: "Judicious and perceptive[, ] . . . Irvine explores the clash between professional sex education advocates and politicized Christian evangelicals that has played out on the stage of local communities and school systems since the 1960s. She illuminates a significant yet largely unknown story of the politics of sexuality."--Kathy Peiss, author of Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture