For this Back to School episode, we are getting schooled in the history of sexual education by Margaret Grace Myers, author of The Fight for Sex Ed: The Century-Long Battle Between Truth and Doctrine. Through STI public health crises, sex work moral panics, eugenic visions, world wars, sexual revolutions, and the rise of the Christian right, sex ed has always been a potent cultural battleground that has remained remarkably similar decade over decade, a fight for the soul of a nation that has never quite known how to deal with S-E-X.&nbsp;

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