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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