Health security

How AIDS Put the Sex in Sex Education

Since the days of Sigmund Freud, of course, educators had deliberated whether, when, and how young people were sexual beings. But the debate accelerated in the era of AIDS, spurred by the astonishing development of new media technologies: videos, satellite television, and the Internet.Each new advance made sexual imagery more readily available to more and more children and adolescents, which in turn under-scored the issue of what—and how much—they should know about the subject.