rape, readers’ letters to Blume about, 193

reading, as power, 209. see also censorship

Reagan, Nancy, 165

Reagan, Ronald, xvi, 142, 165–68, 179, 181, 182, 201

“Recreational—and Procreational—Sex” (Money), 93–94

Rees, David, 146–49

Reilly & Lee (publisher), 8–9

religion

Are You There God? (Blume) on, 18–20

Religious Right and censorship, 142, 165–68, 183–84. see also censorship

sex education and religious groups, 32

Rib Lake High School (Medford, Wisconsin), 201–3

Rich, Frank, 141

Rockefeller, John D., 29

Roe v. Wade (1973), xix, 95, 201

Roth, Bess, 130

Roth, Philip, 130, 167

Rowling, J. K., 191, 206–7

Rushdie, Salman, 207, 214

“Ruth’s Song (Because She Could Not Sing It)” (Steinem), 128–29

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Salinger, J. D., 13, 186–87

The Satanic Verses (Rushdie), 214

Schlafly, Phyllis, 142, 167, 175, 201

School Library Journal, 26, 101–3, 145, 173

schools. see censorship; sex education

scoliosis, 60–66, 184

Secular Humanism, 168

Setzer, Bobbie, 191

Seventeenth Summer (Daly), 80

sex education, 27–37. see also censorship

Adolescent Family Life Act (AFLA) on, 181–82

American culture of late 1960s on, 27–28, 29–32, 34–37

Are You There God? (Blume) as, 28–29, 32–34, 36–37

contemporary debates about, xix–xx

importance of, 211–13

internet vs., 212

on masturbation, 68, 74–75

on menstruation, 27–28, 29–32, 34–37, 193

Show Me! (McBride and Fleischhauer-Hardt) and, 169–70

Sex Education (Netflix), 212

Sex Is a Funny Word (Silverberg), 71

sexual abuse, readers’ letters to Blume about, 193

sexuality

boys’ puberty portrayed in Then Again, Maybe I Won’t (Blume), 39–42, 69, 79, 144, 186

contraception and. see also contraception

flappers (Jazz Age) and, 88

masturbation and. see also masturbation

pleasure by women and, 93–100

teen pregnancy and, 79–80, 85, 181–82