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From virginity to Viagra
Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 1st, 2012
2012 MAR 1 -- Nashville, TN - Americans will spend more than $17 billion on Valentine's Day, but far less on programs like sex education for adolescents. The editors of the new book, Sex for Life, From Virginity to Viagra, How Sexuality Changes Throughout Our Lives, argue that not only do our public policies on sex education need to be reevaluated, our entire concept of human sexuality needs to be broadened.
"We don't really do a good job when we think about sex," says Dr. Laura Carpenter, an associate professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University and the co-editor of Sex for Life. "We think of people in terms of snapshots, say teenagers, or married...
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