The title of this article is called "Why is Everyone Afraid of Sex?" by Pepper Schwartz. The main point of this article is to show how society portrays sex in the media and in education and why everyone is "afraid of sex". Schwartz argues that people aren't necessarily afraid of sex, rather they are uninformed and the media and schools aren't doing a very good job at informing students. Society is more sexually constrained than liberated. There are many points Schwartz gives in this article to explain why there is fear about sexuality. A few of these are, religious indoctrination and tradition, association of sexuality, diseases, and death, and finally, fear about sexual acceptability and competence.

This article is about why abstinence works and describes the ways in which is positive in the education system.

http://www.abstinenceworks.org/

This video is from the abstinence works website and stresses the important of abstinence education in schools.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZqELOFw_i4&feature=player_embedded#t=161

This article from Focus on the Family is about two extreme education system's approaches on sex education. There is still conflict about the focus of sexual education in schools and at what age it should begin.

http://www.focusonthefamily.com/socialissues/social-issues/abstinence-education.aspx


This article is stressing the importance of a sex education course in schools, not just an abstinence only education course. This relates to the part of the book in which people are no longer educated about the truth about sex, instead they are only taught how to remain abstinent until marriage.

http://advocatesforyouth.org/publications/409


Here is a quote from Families As They Really Are and a correlation to another book I am reading:

“A well-done and well-publicized 2001 study by Bearman and Bruckner looked at data on 20,000 students who had taken abstinence pledges and found that only 12 percent kept their promise” (Risman, 122). This correlates to a section in ‘A Year of Biblical Womanhood’ where Rachel Held Evans talks about her encounter with giving an abstinence pledge in middle school. She gave the same statistic as stated above, “the youth leader said he planned to hang the cork board in the hallway outside the sanctuary so that parents could marvel at the 75 abstinence pledges he’d collected that night. It was a pretty cheap way to treat both our bodies and God, come to think of it. Studies suggest that only about 12 percent of us kept that promise” (Evans, 103).