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
