Sex Knowledge for Men


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Sex Knowledge for Men


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Excerpt from Sex Knowledge for Men: Including a Program for Sex Education of the Boy As alluded to in the preface, the literature on sex subjects that a young man is likely to read may be divided into two classes. One is the kind gotten out by the advertising Charlatans, proprie tors Of museums for men only and other quack doctors. This literature is utterly vile. It is full of lies, exaggerations and ridiculous absurdi ties and misstatements. The authors being irresponsible quacks and ignoramuses of no standing whatever, they do not care anything about what they say, or how ridiculous their state ments may be. Their only Object is to make money, and they work upon the fears Of their prospective victims. Having sufficiently fright ened them, they can fleece them to their last dol lar. It would not be worth while to discuss or even to mention that muck literature, but for the fact that being spread broadcast, it exerts a ruinous eflect on thousands and thousands of boys and young men. For all I know, you may be one of the victims Of that quack literature. The literature Of the second class is of a higher character. Its Object is not to make money by at tracting patients; its purpose is to keep the young men good and pure. Some people, you know, believe that the end justifies the means. To one authors of this class of literature the Object of keeping our boys and young men good and pure seems SO important, that they feel justi fied in indulging in certain exaggerations and even in downright misstatements. Of course in many cases these exaggerations and misstatements are not made with deliberation; they are due to their authors ignorance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Sex Knowledge for Men


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Sex Knowledge for Men


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Sex Knowledge for Men


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Sex Knowledge for Men


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Sex Ed, Segregated


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In Sex Ed, Segregated, Courtney Shah examines the Progressive Era sex education movement, which presented the possibility of helping people understand their own health and sexuality, but which most often divided audiences along rigid lines of race, class, and gender. Reformers' assumptions about their audience's place in the political hierarchy played a crucial role in the development of a mainstream sex education movement by the 1920s. Reformers and instructors taught middle-class youth, African-Americans, and World War I soldiers different stories, for different reasons. Shah's examination of "character-building" organizations like the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) and the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) reveals how the white, middle-class ideal reflected cultural assumptions about sexuality and formed an aspirational model for upward mobility to those not in the privileged group, such as immigrant or working class youth. In addition, as Shah argues, the battle over policing young women's sexual behavior during World War I pitted middle-class women against their working-class counterparts. Sex Ed, Segregated demonstrates that the intersection between race, gender, and class formed the backbone of Progressive-Era debates over sex education, the policing of sexuality, and the prevention of venereal disease. Courtney Shah is an instructor at Lower Columbia College, Washington.




The Judge


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Boys & Sex


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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Now in paperback—Peggy Orenstein, author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller Girls & Sex, turns her focus to the sexual lives of young men. “Eye-opening…. Every few pages, the boy world cracks open a little bit…. Even in the most anxiety-provoking moments of Boys & Sex, it’s clear that Orenstein believes in the goodness of boys and the men they can become, and she believes in us, as parents, to raise them” (New York Times Book Review). Peggy Orenstein’s Girls & Sex broke ground, shattered taboos, and launched conversations about young women’s right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It also had an unexpected effect on its author: Orenstein realized that talking about girls is only half the conversation. Boys are subject to the same cultural forces as girls—steeped in the same distorted media images and binary stereotypes of female sexiness and toxic masculinity—which equally affect how they navigate sexual and emotional relationships. In Boys & Sex, Peggy Orenstein dives back into the lives of young people to once again give voice to the unspoken, revealing how young men understand and negotiate the new rules of physical and emotional intimacy. Drawing on comprehensive interviews with young men, psychologists, academics, and experts in the field, Boys & Sex dissects so-called locker room talk; how the word “hilarious” robs boys of empathy; pornography as the new sex education; boys’ understanding of hookup culture and consent; and their experience as both victims and perpetrators of sexual violence. By surfacing young men’s experience in all its complexity, Orenstein is able to unravel the hidden truths, hard lessons, and important realities of young male sexuality in today’s world. The result is a provocative and paradigm-shifting work that offers a much-needed vision of how boys can truly move forward as better men.




You're Teaching My Child What?


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Exposes the lies and misconceptions about sex education taught to American children in school, including information on sexually transmitted diseases, contraception, and homosexuality.