Dr. Prince Morrow and the Birth of Sexual Health Advocacy in America -- Ella Flagg Young and the First Sex Ed Lectures in American Public Schools -- Fit to Fight: Syphilis and WWI -- Thomas Parran and "The Next Great Plague to Go" -- Ellsworth Buck's Drive to Educate New York City -- World War II -- The Birth and Boycott of the Sex Ed Film -- Sex Ed and Family Life Education in the 1950s -- The First North American Conference on Church and Family -- The Birth of SIECUS -- The Religious Right Comes for SIECUS -- The New Battles of the 1970s -- A Decade of Federal Action -- Curricula Wars -- AIDS -- The Rise of Comprehensive Sex Ed -- The A-H Definition -- Trump, Biden, and Today -- Afterword: The Future of Sex Ed

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