Still, Zimmerman demonstrates that sex education never won a sustained foothold: parents and religious leaders rejected the subject as an intrusion on their authority, while teachers and principals worried that it would undermine their own tenuous powers. By the early 2000s, nearly every country in the world addressed sex in its official school curriculum. In the so-called Third World, sex education developed in response to the deadly crisis of HIV/AIDS. But the American approach came under fire after World War II from European countries, which valued individual rights and pleasures over social goals and outcomes. In the early 1900s, the United States pioneered sex education to protect citizens from venereal disease. Examining key players who supported and opposed the sex education movement, Zimmerman takes a close look at one of the most debated and divisive hallmarks of modern schooling. As people crossed borders, however, they joined hands to block sex education from most of their classrooms. As Jonathan Zimmerman shows, the controversial subject began in the West and spread steadily around the world over the past century. Too Hot to Handle is the first truly international history of sex education. The first comprehensive history of sex education around the world
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