Birgitta Linner

“This is one of these books that I’ve a strong feeling no one actually read. The preface by an American sex educator whose name was Lester Kirkendall underscores the real take-away message: despite all the curricular innovations in Sweden and its pioneering exploration of sex in schools (it’s the first country to require sex education and there’s a very elaborate curriculum), when you go into the schools and you talk to the students and the teachers you find out that a lot of them are either ignoring it or giving it very short shrift.” Read more...

The best books on Sex Education

Jonathan Zimmerman, Historian