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Older Women and Sexual Health
Published in Jane M. Ussher, Joan C. Chrisler, Janette Perz, Routledge International Handbook of Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2019
Camille J. Interligi, Maureen C. McHugh
Until the early 1900s, sex was considered a private matter, unsuitable for public discussion (Huber & Firmin, 2014). Most discussion about sex occurred in the home, if it occurred at all. The content of these conversations was limited to physiology and the morals of sexual behavior. In many cultures, social norms and traditional family values promoted abstinence until marriage. In the early 1900s, the social hygiene movement brought issues of sex and sexuality to social consciousness in the US. Concerned with cleanliness and purity, public health education was a means to transmit information about and prevent STIs, and it promoted marital sex as the most effective prevention method.
Social Work & Corrections in the Progressive Era: What We Remember, What We Obscure
Published in Journal of Progressive Human Services, 2023
The notion that policing, surveillance, or imprisonment could “protect” society from or “correct” illicit sexual and behavioral transgressions was central to eugenics’ hold on criminology. Criminology was just one aspect of a larger Social Hygiene Movement that brought together scientists, social workers, lawmakers, and law enforcement to further eugenicist ideals of social reproduction and racial “purity.” Kennedy (2008) describes one appeal of eugenics to the Progressive Era social worker: … eugenics’ emphasis on hereditarian, and thus seemingly unchangeable, characteristics offered a welcome explanation to social workers who were frustrated with their clients’ inability to reform their (perceived) immoral and criminal ways. (p. 31)
A Review of History of Sex Education by SIECUS
Published in American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2022
As of 2021, there is still debate about the necessity for comprehensive sex education in K-12 curricula. Simultaneously, protests are occurring against the inclusion of critical race theory in schools. These protests are set on the premise of excluding vital aspects of United States history as it factually occurred and the implications that still exist and impact everyone currently. Ironically, socially just, inclusive, and comprehensive sexuality education is an area in which the true history of the United States can be shared. Additionally, evidence shows that comprehensive sex education is essential for the health and well-being of young people despite efforts against it (Goldfarb & Lieberman, 2021). The History of Sex Education, a publication by SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change (SIECUS),1 provides a perspective of the history of sex education in the United States. The SIECUS document authors, whose specific names are not included in the publication, address six critical areas within the history of sex education, (1) The social hygiene movement, (2) Moving beyond disease prevention, (3) The sexual revolution and culture wars, (4) AIDS changes the debate, (5) The fight between abstinence-only and comprehensive sexuality education, and (6) Looking forward: sex ed as a vehicle for social change. They propose that sex education can be a vehicle for greater social change rather than its historical use as a solution for society’s sex and relationship problems.