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Harmful to Minors

The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex

Judith Levine

Foreword by Dr. Joycelyn M. Elders

University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis / London 2002


To Paul

Contents

Cover text  Text Notes

Foreword, Dr Joycelin M. Elders

IX

227

Author's Note

XIII

 

Acknowledgments

XV

 

Introduction
Peril and Pleasure, Parenting and Childhood

XIX

228

I. Harmful Protection

1

 

 

1. Censorship
The Sexual Media and the Ambivalence of Knowing

3

230

 

2. Manhunt 20
The Pedophile Panic

20

233

 

3. Therapy
"
Children Who Molest" and the Tyranny of the Normal

45

244

 

 4. Crimes of Passion 
Statutory Rape and the Denial of Female Desire

68

248

 

5. No-Sex Education 
From "Chastity" to "Abstinence" 

90

252

 

6. Compulsory Motherhood  
The End of Abortion  

117

260

 

7. The Expurgation of Pleasure

127

264

II. Sense and sexuality

 

 

 

8. The Facts
...and Truthful Fictions

141

266
 

9. What Is Wanting?
Gender, Equality, and Desire

155 267
 

10. Good Touch
A Sensual Education

178 268
  11. Community
Risk, Identity, and Love in the Age of AIDS
199 271
Epilogue
Morality
218 274
Notes [Are given by chapter] 227  
Index 277  
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