of Teens on Dating, Intimacy, and Sexual Experiences,' reported by SIECUS,
10. Good Touch
1. Ashley Montagu,
2. Stephen J. Suomi, 'The Role of Touch in Rhesus Monkey Social Development,' in Catherine Caldwell Brown, ed.,
4. Madtrulika Gupta et al., 'Perceived Touch Deprivation and Body Image: Some Observations among Eating Disordered and Non-Clinical Subjects,'
5. The French children were touched more. Author interview, 1999.
6. James W. Prescott, 'Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence,'
7. Clellan S. Ford and Frank A. Beach,
8. Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, and Clyde E. Martin,
9. Robin J. Lewis and Louis H. Janda, 'The Relationship between Adult Sexual Adjustment and Childhood Experiences Regarding Exposure to Nudity, Sleeping in the Parental Bed, and Parental Attitudes toward Sexuality,'
10. Tamar Lewin, 'Breast-Feeding: How Old Is Too Old?'
11. Lewin, 'Breast-Feeding.'
12. Richard Johnson, unpublished manuscript, March 1998.
13. This has been reported to me by many sex educators, including the veteran Peggy Brick, of Planned Parenthood of Greater Northern New Jersey.
14. Joseph Tobin, ed.,
15. 'It is unclear whether prevention programs are working or even that they are more beneficial than harmful,' concluded N. Dickson Reppucci and Jeffrey J. Haugaard. See their 'Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse: Myth or Reality,'
16. One study measured a 50 percent rise in fear levels among children who had been subjected to a prevention program that made use of comic-book characters. J. Garbarino, 'Children's Response to a Sexual Abuse Prevention Program: A Study of the Spiderman Comic,'
17. Bonnie Trudell and M. Whatley, 'School Sexual Abuse Prevention: Unintended Consequences and Dilemmas,'
18. Thomas W. Laqueur, 'The Social Evil, the Solitary Vice, and Pouring Tea,' in
19. Alice Balint,
20. Benjamin Spock,
21. John H. Gagnon, 'Attitudes and Responses of Parents to Pre-Adolescent Masturbation,'
22.
23. Joycelyn Elders, 'The Dreaded 'M' Word,' in
24. William N. Friedrich and Patricia Grambsch, 'Child Sexual Behavior Inventory: Normative and Clinical Comparison,'
25. Friedrich and Grambsch, 'Child Sexual Behavior Inventory.'
26. Robin L. Leavitt and Martha Bauman Power, 'Civilizing Bodies: Children in Day Care,' in
27. Leavitt and Power, 'Civilizing Bodies,' 45-46.
28. Peggy Brick, Sue Montford, and Nancy Blume,
29. Larry L. Constantine and Floyd M. Martinson, eds.,
30. Nancy Blackman, 'Pleasure and Touching: Their Significance in the Development of the Preschool Child,' paper delivered at the International Symposium on Childhood and Sexuality, Montreal, September 1979.
31. Outercourse was named, but not invented, in the 1970s. Even before the eighteenth century, when travel was slow and distances long, there was 'bundling.' 'The practice allowed a [courting] couple to spend a night together in bed as long as they remained fully clothed or, in some cases, kept a 'bundling board' between them. . . . Parents and youth shared the expectation that sexual intercourse would not take place, but if it did, and pregnancy resulted, the couple would certainly marry.' John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman,
32. Marty Klein and Riki Robbins,
33. Leonore Tiefer, 'Bring Back the Kids' Stuff,' in
34. Tiefer, 'Bring Back the Kids' Stuff,' 70.
35. Advocates for Youth, 'Adolescent Sexual Health in Europe and the U.S.' (2001). 36. Klein and Robbins,
11. Community
1. Patton,
2. Half of the forty thousand new HIV infections a year are in people under twenty-five, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health. Bill Alexander, 'Adolescent HIV Rates Soar; Government Piddles,'
3. They were down 44 percent in the first six months of 1997 compared with 1996. Altman, 'AIDS Deaths Drop 48% in New York.'
4. Hilts, 'AIDS Deaths Continue to Rise in 25-44 Age Group.'
5. Including those who inject drugs, the numbers fell from 65 percent in 1981 to 44 percent in 1996. Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Ga., March 1996.
6. Interview with Gary Remafedi, director of the University of Minnesota/Minneapolis Youth and AIDS Project, 1998.
7. 'Rate of AIDS Has Slowed,'