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Abortion,
ix;
among
Christians, 119;
after contraceptive failure, 120;
European rates of, 102;
health risks of, 123;
information sources on, 145;
legal vs. illegal, 119, 261n. 10;
among low-income teens, 123-24;
as a moral good, 120, 126, 262n. 19;
regrets about, 121-22;
as sex-ed topic, 93, 103, 262nn. 20,25;
teen rates of, 118-19, 261n. 8
"About
Your Sexuality" {Unitarian sex-ed program), 14-15
Abstinence
education:
as
child neglect, 109;
current emphasis on, xxiv, xxxii, 90-116, 257n. 38;
depiction of, as freedom, 107-8;
federal government's advocacy of, 91,97-103, 159,215, 222, 262n. 25;
as ineffective, 93-94, 102, 112-13,201, 257n. 38;
intercourse as emphasis of, 129-33;
as lethal, 102,199-200, 271n. 1;
opposition to, 257n. 38;
and view of sex as dangerous, 105-16, 159, 199-203, 255n. 28;
as a word, 95, 252n. 2
Achilles
myth, 172-73
ACLU.
See American Civil Liberties Union
Act
of Marriage, The {LaHaye and LaHaye), 130
ACT-UP,
200,207
Adebanjo,
Toyin, 209
Adolescence
{definition), xxix. See a/so Teenagers
Adolescent
Family Life Act. See AFLA
Adolescent
Health Services and Pregnancy Prevention and Care Act, 254n. 17
Adolescents.
See Teenagers Adoption, 97,108,123
Adults:
ambivalence
of American, toward children, x xxi-x xxii, 27-29,219-22;
sentencing of children as, xxxii, 88;
sex portrayed as only for, 108-10;
sexual desire of, for children, xxiii, 20-44.
See a/so Parents
Advocates
for Youth, 93, 101, 113,272n. 19
AFLA
(Adolescent Family Life Act), 90-91,97-101
Africa,
xxix, 200-201,208
African
Americans:
age
of first intercourse among, xxiv;
and AIDS, xxxiii, 200,205,206, 271n. 7;
government policies regarding reproduction of, 248n. 5;
single mothers among, 255n. 26
Age:
of
brides and grooms in 1990, 228n. 4;
of first intercourse, xxiv, 93,102,104,118, 198;
legal, for marriage, 229n. 22, 249n. 8, 252n. 48;
of men involved in girls' pregnancies, 79-80, 250nn. 21,23;
of people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, xxxiii;
of puberty in girls, 228n. 4;
of rape victims, 72;
of sexual consent, xxxii, 25, 30,71,81,87-89, 252nn. 48, 49;
of women obtaining abortions, 119, 261n. 8.
See also Incest; Intergenerational sex; Statutory rape
Age-appropriate
(as term), 183 AIDS. See HIV/AIDS
Alan
Guttmacher Institute, 92, 96-99, 112, 119, 120, 136, 254n. 17
Alcoholics
Anonymous, 252n. 2
Alcoholism,
66, 252n. 2. See also Drug addiction
Alexander,
Margaret, 236n. 30
Alexander,
Ruth, 250n. 27
Alyxrythmia,268n.
15
American
Bar Association, 79-80
American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 13, 16,63, 98, 235n. 12
American
Family Association, 35, 38
American
Library Association, 16
American
Life League, 97
American
Medical Association, 114,124-25
American
Psychiatric Association, 23
American
Red Cross, 256n. 28
Americans
for Tax Reform {ATR), 223
American
Social Hygiene Association, 6
America
Online, 16, 68
America's
Most Wanted {television show), 70
Anal
intercourse, 130, 133,145, 198,208, 265n. 11
Angela's
Ashes (McCourt), 9
Archer,
William Reynolds, III, 255n. 24
Aries,
Philippe, x xvii-xxvi ii
Arizona,
242n. 94
Armstrong,
Bruce, 174-75
Arts
{and the erotic), 152-54
Asser,
Gonne, 210
Association
for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, 43
Atwood,
Margaret, 107-8
Augustine
{saint), 10, 106-7