Abstract
Had Touchy Subject: The History and Philosophy of Sex Education appeared between 2009 and 2017, we might regard it as a progressive call for change in sex education in US public schools, congruent with the nation’s liberal leadership. Were it published in 2010 or 2011, it might be read as a response to critical changes in US laws that improved access to healthcare and the rights of the LGBTQ community. Instead, Touchy Subject, written by Lauren Bialystok and Lisa M. F. Andersen, arrives in readers’ hands as multiple US state legislatures ban educating children about sexual identity for the first 7 years of public education and penalise librarians for having books with any sort of sexual content in school libraries. Although Bialystok and Andersen acknowledge that the ‘political dance floor has moved … to the right’ (p. 165), recent and further seismic shifts have reduced the idea that sex education in the here and now can be more and better than it has been to rubble.
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