Kiss and Confide

Author: Julia A. Erickson, Sally A. Stephen, Ma Yongbo
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: This book provides a detailed account of a century of American sexual investigation history, documenting the fundamental changes in public and personal understanding of sexuality. The authors reveal that sexual investigations not only reflect the sexual values and assumptions of an era but also powerfully shape the social reality of "normal" sexual desire. It demonstrates how sexual investigations reflect society's anxieties about adolescent development, teenage sexual behavior, promiscuity, and AIDS, as well as how society strives to protect marriage and guide women's sexual desire. This is a must-read for understanding the diversity of human sexuality, and it also shows us how incomplete and malleable our sexual knowledge actually is.