Males (Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, San Francisco) examines the myths and fears surrounding discussion of teen sex and pregnancy, including their relationship to popular culture,
adult sexual behaviors, and anxieties towards the increasingly public roles of young women, claiming that these myths rely on falsehoods and the suppression of realities and are influenced by
interest groups creating a climate that maligns young people and misrepresents teenage behaviors as separate from adult values. He details how these groups have created fallacies that
misrepresent teen sex and pregnancy as teen behaviors when they are adult behaviors; the debate between liberal sex-education and conservative "traditional values" groups; claims that teen
childbearing produces social costs; teen pregnancy in poorer groups; the roles of popular authors and commentators; racism and sexism in the debate; myths about sex on TV, internet predators,
sexting, and other topics; the battle over sex education; and the need for leadership that forces privatized social policy interests to see these realities. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc.,
Portland, OR (booknews.com)
