Public Sex Research Articles

Body Self-Esteem and Sexual Satisfaction in Chilean Adults: Implications for Comprehensive Sexual Education

Sex education is a complex and often controversial issue, and in Chile, this is no exception. The country's progress towards a curriculum that extends beyond public health-related sex topics has experienced ups and downs, resulting in the current lack of a comprehensive program. Comprehensive sexual education (CSE) programs typically include topics known to have a positive effect on individuals' overall sexual health, such as body self-esteem. The effectiveness of these programs can be measured through individuals' sexual satisfaction. Given the limited national evidence on this subject, the objective of this study was to analyze the relationship between body self-esteem and sexual satisfaction in Chilean adults, considering various socio-demographic variables. The sample consisted of 203 cisgender individuals who completed body self-esteem and sexual satisfaction scales. The results indicated a positive relationship between body self-esteem and sexual satisfaction. Using multiple regression, it was found that body self-esteem explained 17% of sexual satisfaction variability. These findings underscore the importance of sex education and its impact on individuals' sexual well-being.

Stated preferences for new HIV prevention technologies among men who have sex with men in India: A discrete choice experiment.

India has the second largest HIV epidemic in the world. Despite successes in epidemic control at the population level, a concentrated epidemic persists among gay and other men who have sex with men (MSM). However, India lags in implementation of biomedical prevention technologies, such as HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). In order to inform scale-up of new HIV prevention technologies, including those in the development pipeline, we assessed willingness to use oral PrEP, rectal microbicides, and HIV vaccines, and choices among product characteristics, among MSM in two major Indian cities. A cross-sectional survey was conducted with a discrete choice experiment (DCE), an established methodology for quantitively estimating end-user preferences in healthcare. Survey participants were randomly assigned to one of three questionnaire versions, each of which included a DCE for one prevention technology. Participants were recruited using chain-referral sampling by peer outreach workers, beginning with seeds in community-based organizations and public sex environments, in Chennai and Mumbai. DCE data were analyzed using random-parameters (mixed) logit (RPL) models. Among participants (n = 600), median age was 25 years, with median monthly income of INR 9,000 (~US$125). Nearly one-third (32%) had completed a college degree and 82% were single/never married. A majority of participants (63%) reported condomless anal sex in the past month. The acceptability of all three products was universally high (≥90%). Across all three products, four attributes were significant predictors of acceptability-with efficacy consistently the most important attribute, and in decreasing order of preference, side-effects, dosing schedule, and venue. MSM varied in their preferences for product attributes in relation to their levels of education and income, and engagement in sex work and HIV risk behavior. This study provides empirical evidence to facilitate the integration of end users' preferences throughout design, testing, and dissemination phases of HIV prevention technologies. The findings also suggest action points and targets for interventions for diverse subgroups to support the effectiveness of combination HIV prevention among MSM in India.

Eugenics, Sex and Family Life Education, and Juvenile Delinquency in Los Angeles County, California

AbstractThis glimpse into sex education in the Los Angeles region illustrates the eugenic ideas about racially “fit” reproduction that emerged in family life curricula during the Second World War. Ideas about eugenic reproduction in public schools responded to broader cultural fears about increasing divorce rates, criminality, immigration, and birthright citizenship. Eugenics in sex and family life education, importantly, portrayed a woman’s choice of mate as a civic responsibility, a move that paved the way for future conflicts about teaching gender and sexuality in public school sex education. Amid a half-century-long conflict over abstinence-only versus comprehensive sex education in public schools, topics like genetics and heredity have come to be widely accepted by both sides—recognized as a presumably value-neutral staple of sex education in US public schools. Yet recent innovations in genetic and reproductive technologies, as well as the conflict over trans and queer youth in the United States, challenge the assumption that teaching genetics and heredity in public schools really is “value neutral.”

Capital City Cruising: Surveillance, Pleasure, and Discursive Practices of Queer Communities in Ottawa

This study investigates how men who have sex with men (MSM) discern, discuss, and defy issues of surveillance in the context of casual, public sex​​—also known as cruising—and how these exchanges constitute and inform subaltern counter-surveillance measures. Focusing on written exchanges by users of the queer hook-up website Squirt, I analyze how individuals share information about the safety and surveillance of cruising locations in the Greater Ottawa Area. This work concludes that surveillance and cruising is normalized, and that both police and ordinary citizens present safety risks. Because of this, great care is taken to act discreetly and not infringe on the safety of non-cruisers. Finally, environmental factors contribute greatly to both the construction and circumvention of surveillance infrastructure. The data additionally complicate surveillance realism (Dencik and Cable 2017), since cruisers accept the presence of surveillance but not the inevitable impact of it.

A New Sex Education: The Title IX Defense Against "Don't Say Gay"

Sex education in American public schools has long been the subject of controversy. Although debates overthe inclusion of sex education in schools now focus on students’ access to comprehensive curricula that includes the experiences of queer and transgender students, sex education in the United States has long maintained its roots in the institutional promotion of “sexual purity.” Through an exploration of the latest attacks on comprehensive sex education, particularly in the context of reinvigorated “Don’t Say Gay and Trans” legislation, this Article postulates that a novel interpretation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is needed that requires education policymakers to incorporate the experiences and needs of queer and transgender students insex education curricula. This Article examines the application of the Supreme Court’s Bostock v. Clayton County decision to Title IX and argues that the prohibition against discrimination in education on the basis ofsexual orientation and gender identity raises a plausible Title IX challenge to non-inclusive sex education curricula.
 By first offering a brief historical overview of public sex education curricula in the United States, this Article contextualizes the present need for comprehensive sex education as an impactfulresource forstudents, as well as the unique sexual health challenges faced by queer and trans adolescents. This Article then outlines the important changes to Title IX in the wake of the Bostock decision, President Biden’s 2021 Executive Order implementing Bostock, and subsequent appellate case law. Most importantly, this Article will highlight the potential for Title IX claims to be brought against public schools, districts, and states that offer non-comprehensive sex education curricula that excludes content relating to the unique needs of queer and trans students. This Article concludes by addressing potential challenges to such an interpretation of Title IX in the context of sex education curricula and will underscore the important policyramifications of incorporating the experiences and needs of queer and trans students in educational dialogues surrounding sexual health.

The Sex Offenders Public Registry of the Republic of Poland: Problems that require solutions

The paper examines the experience of the Republic of Poland in recording and classifying convicted sexual offenders. The register is a comprehensive criminal law tool for crime prevention of sexual violent crimes. The author examines the effectiveness of the register as well as compares it to the similar practices in some Western countries. The author dwells upon the experience of one of the very few publicly available crime registries in the European Union, The Polish Public Sex Offenders Registry, which is currently functioning on the base of the Act of 13 May of 2016 on counteracting sexual crime threats. The current registry could be checked from any device from any part of the globe (which makes it similar to some US public registries). The article examines how such regulations correlate with General Data Protection Regulation of the European Parliament and if this type of crime prevention could be considered to be adequate to its task.

고교 경쟁률과 접근성에 대한 그룹간 분산분석

The purpose of this study is to examine the spatial characteristics of the school location by focusing on the differences in educational environments between groups according to the competition rate and accessibility of high schools when students and parents choose a school.
 As a result of variance analysis, there were differences between groups in total number of students, number of students per class, number of books per capita, school development fund, accessibility, number of subway stations, urban public facilities(factory), academy facilities, and sex crime rates, which were statistically significant.
 The results of the school competition rate generated in the school selection process are not only a problem of the school, but also a problem of the school location and educational environment surrounding the school.

Emergency contraceptive provision in the emergency department and risk analysis for delayed utilization in South Korea.

In certain nations, the emergency department (ED) has been designated as the primary center to provide emergency contraception (EC). However, analyses of ED visits for EC are limited. Moreover, ED-based research that focuses on time is limited to only a few surveys. The aims of this study were to examine the characteristics of ED visitors for EC and the interval between the coitus and arrival at the ED, and to analyze the factors associated with delays in visiting the ED. This retrospective cohort study involved patients at 2 urban tertiary academic hospitals in South Korea. All patients who presented to the ED for EC between January 2019 and December 2021 were analyzed. The median age of the participants was 26 years. The most common variables were age of 20 to 29 years (42.0%), evening visits (34.9%), weekends or public holidays (62.6%), single status (89.2%), and visits after contraceptive failure (79.1%). The mean time interval was 7.49 hours, and 77.4% of all patients visited the ED within 12 hours. Patients who received public sex education presented earlier (P < .001). ED visits after nonconsensual sexual incidents represented significantly delayed presentations (P < .001). Regression analysis revealed that both the lack of public education and the occurrence of nonconsensual coitus were associated with incident-to-ED visit intervals of >12 hours. Most patients received emergency contraceptive pill (ECP) within the recommended timeframe. In particular, nationwide school-based public sex education positively affected early ECP access. In contrast, ECP provision was delayed for patients who experienced nonconsensual coitus. Strategies for timely ECP access should account for possible concerns about stigmatization and privacy.

“She Whistles Freely Shunning Companions”: The Embedded and Transcendent Selves of Poet-Painter Wang Liang in the Eighteenth Century

This article examines the unusual life of the poet and painter Wang Liang (ca. 1720–1790). Granddaughter of a prominent Jiaxing bibliophile and collector, she lost her father in infancy and married into a respected Huzhou family of officials only to witness their demise amidst a very public sex and corruption scandal in 1740, which also implicated her own wealthy merchant family. In the wake of this disaster, she and her husband severed their family ties and lived out their years in genteel poverty, childless. Surviving her husband by over twenty-five years, she fashioned an independent life and a self-image, echoed by observers, of Daoist detachment from the proverbial dust of the world while cultivating relationships with prominent male mentors and female artists across Jiangnan. As poet, painter, and player of the zither and the game of Go, Wang Liang at times articulated a vision of explicitly ungendered artistic perfection resembling aspects of the androgynous ideal associated with the culture of the Ming-Qing transition. Yet she was also poignantly aware that she was still embedded in relationships that pulled her back into family obligation, gendered hierarchy, and social exchange. I delve into her extant poetry and commentary about her to present her life and art as a contrapuntal play between embedded and transcendent modes of identity and expression.

Epidemiological Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Myopia Among Primary School Students in Southern China: A Longitudinal Study.

Objectives: To study the epidemiological characteristics and influencing factors of myopia to provide a scientific basis for the prevention and control of myopia. Methods: 7,597 students studying in grades 1-3 were followed up. Eye examinations and questionnaire surveys were conducted annually from 2019 to 2021. The influencing factors of myopia were analyzed by logistic regression model. Results: The prevalence of myopia among students in grades 1-3 in 2019 was 23.4%, which increased to 41.9% and 51.9% after the 1-and 2-year follow-up, respectively. The incidence of myopia and change in the spherical equivalent refraction (SER) were higher in 2020 than in 2021. The 2-year cumulative incidences of myopia were 2.5%, 10.1%, 15.5%, 36.3%, and 54.1% in students with a baseline SER >+1.50D, +1.00D to +1.50D, +0.50D to +1.00D, 0.00D to +0.50D, and -0.50D to 0.00D, respectively. Outdoor activities, sex, age, baseline SER, parental myopia, sleep time, and digital device exposure were associated with myopia. Conclusion: The prevalence of myopia demonstrated a rapid increase; thus, healthy habits and outdoor activities should be promoted for the prevention and control of myopia.

The Reach, Implementation, and Effectiveness of Virtual Sex Education for Foster Care Youth

Background and Objective: Foster care youth have high rates of adverse sexual health outcomes (i.e. STIs, teen pregnancy, sexual trauma), and are important targets for evidence-based sex education.With the COVID-19 pandemic, sex education programming was moved to a virtual format. However, few data existed to guide this transition. We conducted a mixed-methods analysis of the reach, implementation, and effectiveness of virtual vs in-person sex education for foster care youth before, after, and during the COVID-19 pandemic. &#x0D; Methods: Indiana Proud and Connected Teens (IN-PACT) provided three evidenced-based programs to system-involved youth. The data used in this study includes facilitator forms (n=64) from 2020-2021 virtual programming and youth surveys from 2018-2020 representing in-person (n=965) and virtual (n=50) delivery. Reach was measured using youth survey demographics and sexual behaviors; implementation by free responses from facilitators on challenges and adaptation for virtual teaching; and effectiveness by youth behavior intention and attendance records.&#x0D; Results:Reach: demographic diversity was maintained for virtual programs, but youth in virtual programs had lower rates of risk behaviors.Implementation: technical, curricular, and relational challenges were experienced and these inspired creative solutions. The sensitivity of the topics likely contributed to relational challenges such as decreased group trust.&#x0D; Effectiveness: more virtual youth planned to be abstinent in the future, however they had less sexual experience to start with. Fewer youth completed more than 75% of virtual programming as compared to in-person. Conclusions and Impact: In-person sex education programming has a wider reach, experiences less implementation challenges, and holds better attendance records than virtual programming. However, if virtual programming becomes necessary again from a public health perspective, sex educators and researchers can build on these findings to design virtual sex education that maintains the reach, implementation, and effectiveness of in-person formats.

Finding Johannesburg’s gay Leathermen 1983–2006

Leathermen communities have been documented in the Global North since the 1970s. In this article, I introduce, for the first time, the gay leathermen of Johannesburg to scholars of alternative sexualities. I argue that the leathermen subculture was brought ashore by global flows of culture in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as by international travellers in the 1970s, but is hidden in furtive gay and lesbian communities. A definable local subculture emerged between 1983 and 2000, and in 2001 leathermen coalesced around Metropolis, a bar in downtown Johannesburg. Drawing data from Exit, South Africa’s longest running gay newspaper, as well as the owners of Metropolis, I map the development of the leathermen subculture between 1983–2006. I argue that their BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism) ethos and their public sex in leather bars are met by resistance and harassment from conservative elements in the gay and lesbian community, as well as police and public health officials.

Animal Sex in Public

AbstractContemporary zoological gardens are hoping to delay the sixth mass extinction through captive breeding of endangered species. This article explores the dominant temporal orders invoked by managing animal sex in captivity in order to unfold unnatural histories of the zoo. Departing from the queer critique of reproductive futurism, it demonstrates that in the modern zoo, reproduction is removed from sexuality. By mapping out the more-than-human dimensions of chronopolitics at the zoo, this article unravels the complex process of transposing sexual acts into temporally fixed sexuality. To account for multiple pasts and futures of captive sex, this analysis employs the category of queer animality. Tracing the fascination with animal homosexuality to early sexological taxonomies, this article argues that anchoring sexual identity in animality is an anachronistic move that rests on the myth of timeless nature. At the same time, the sexological distinction between constitutional and circumstantial homosexuality relies on two types of teleological temporality: developmental and degenerative time of evolutionary change. The zoo is not only a place where education of desire occurs along the deep time line of natural history but also a contested terrain of captivity that can cancel any claim to atemporal naturalness.

‘I did not have sex outside of our bubble’: changes in sexual practices and risk reduction strategies among sexual minority men in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic

In efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19, jurisdictions across the globe, including Canada, enacted containment measures that affected intimacy and sexual relations. This article examines how public health measures during COVID-19 impacted the sexual practices of sexual minority men— gay, bisexual, queer and other men who have sex with men—and how they adopted and modified guidelines to prevent the transmission of COVID-19, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). We conducted 93 semi-structured interviews with men (n = 93) in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, Canada, between November 2020 to February 2021 (n = 42) and June to October 2021 (n = 51). Across jurisdictions, participants reported changes to sexual practices in response to public health measures and shifting pandemic contexts. Many men indicated that they applied their HIV/STI risk mitigation experiences and adapted COVID-19 prevention strategies to continue engaging in casual sexual behaviours and ensure sexual safety. ‘Social bubbles’ were changed to ‘sex bubbles’. Masks were turned into ‘safer’ sex tools. ‘Outdoor gathering’ and ‘physical distancing’ were transformed into ‘outdoor sex’ and ‘voyeuristic masturbation’. These strategies are examined in connection to the notion of ‘reflexive mediation’ to illustrate how sexual minority men are simultaneously self-responsibilising and resistant, self-monitoring and creative.

Changes in the global burden of untreated dental caries from 1990 to 2019: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease study

ObjectiveTo investigate the burden of untreated dental caries in 204 countries and territories over 30 years. MethodsData of untreated dental caries from 1990 to 2019, including the incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability, were extracted from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 database. Estimated annual percentage changes were calculated to assess the changes in the age-standardized incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability rates. ResultsGlobally, in 2019, there were 3.09 billion (95% uncertainty interval [UI]: 2.76–3.39 billion) new cases of untreated dental caries in permanent teeth (48.00% increase), 2.03 billion (1.77–2.33) prevalent cases (46.07% increase), and 2.00 million (0.93–3.88) YLDs (45.64% increase), all since 1990. From 1990 to 2019, the age-standardized incidence rate (ASIR) of untreated dental caries in permanent teeth showed an upward trend (estimated annual percentage changes [EAPC] = 0.01), but age-standardized prevalence rate (ASPR) (EAPC = −0.13) and age-standardized YLD rate (ASYR) (EAPC = −0.13) decreased. There were 1.15 billion (0.79–1.52) new cases of untreated dental caries in deciduous teeth (11.74% increase), 0.52 billion (0.41–0.63) prevalent cases (5.89% increase), and 0.20 million (0.09–0.43) YLDs (6.03% increase), all since 1990. From 1990 to 2019, the ASIR of untreated dental caries in permanent teeth showed a stable trend (EAPC = 0), but the ASPR (EAPC = −0.15) and ASYR (EAPC = −0.14) decreased. The incidence of untreated dental caries peaked at the ages of 5–9 and 20–24 years, and the prevalence and years lived with disability at 1–4, 20–24, and 60–64 years. ConclusionUntreated dental caries remains a major global public health challenge, but demographic, sex, and regional differences in trends remain. Proactive intervention strategies, at both administrative and academic levels, based on dynamic changes, are needed.

Raising children: Discussing and practicing modern/colonial family education in Colombia

This paper focuses on how a colonial logic shaped ideas and practices about childhood in the modern/colonial interplay between family members, knowledge, activities, and goods that combined difference, structural subordination, and modern adult-child relations in Colombia. Based on a local magazine directed by elite women, it refers to the cultural mechanism that merged northern and central perspectives with the regional and national modern/colonial horizon of family, public and private sex roles, children, and the broader framework of modernization between 1926 and 1940.

Observing and Performing Male Same-Sex Desire: Appropriation of Public Space in Latvia during the Second World War and Late Stalinism (1940–1953)

The article focuses on male same-sex subculture in public space in Riga during the Second World War and late Stalinism. It analyses the performance of same-sex desire through which the public space was appropriated for male same-sex purposes. The article argues that during the period under discussion, same-sex loving men, who socialised in Riga, perceived themselves as recognisable and positive agents in urban life, thus creating the vibrant male same-sex subculture of the public sex culture. The key source of the article is a diary, whose author both observed his contemporaries performing samesex desire in public space and practiced it himself.

(Safe) Sex on My Mind: The Effects of a Safe Sex Prime and an Alcohol Prime on Sex-Related Perceptions and Behavior

Previous research suggests that exposure to alcohol primes (i.e., stimuli associated with alcohol) affects drinkers' perceptions and behaviors. The present study investigated the effects of an environmental alcohol prime (being in a simulated bar setting) and a safe sex message prime (a public health safe sex message) on sexually active alcohol drinkers. Participants (n = 80) were assigned to one of four conditions according to priming allocation and engaged in a simulated video chat with a potential partner. They reported their sex-related self-perceptions and perceptions of a potential partner upon procedural completion. The alcohol-related environmental prime led participants to rate their potential partner as being significantly less inhibited and more sexual. The safe sex message significantly reduced reported sex-related self-perceptions and perceptions of their partners' disinhibition. There was a significant effect of primes on participants' perceptions of their partner's friendliness--participants exposed to either or both prime(s) perceived their partner as being friendlier than participants exposed to no prime. Results suggest that environmental alcohol primes may strengthen sexually active drinkers' perceptions of a potential partner's disinhibition and sexuality even before alcohol consumption begins, and that a safe sex message may moderate these effects. The presence of safe sex messages in alcohol-related environments may positively influence sexual risk decision making among sexually active drinkers.

Hepatitis C prevalence among men who have sex with men attending a gay bathhouse.

Background and AimRelated research has found that men who visit public sex environments such as a gay bathhouse engage in unprotected anal intercourse and tend to have multiple sexual partners during their visit. We aimed to assess the risk of hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission among men attending a gay bathhouse.MethodsA prospective study of the prevalence of HCV among men attending a gay bathhouse was conducted in Bangkok, Thailand, from October 2019 to March 2020. HCV risks and risk perceptions were evaluated using a self‐administered questionnaire. HCV testing with result notification was provided on site.ResultsOf the 40 participants (median age 30 years), one subject (2.5%) was positive for HCV antibody. Bathhouse patrons reported engaging in high‐risk sexual behavior, including sexually transmitted infection history and Chemsex experience. The subject tested positive for HCV antibody reported a frequency of attending gay bathhouse of around 2–4 times monthly and had multiple partners while attending a gay bathhouse. Only 15% of subjects realized that hepatitis C can be transmitted through sexual intercourse.ConclusionOur findings support HCV transmission‐reducing guidelines recommending providing selective HCV testing among men who have sex with men (MSM). Bathhouse patrons reported low literacy levels on HCV transmission. Nevertheless, HCV screening should cover a population exhibiting high‐risk sexual behaviors such as attending a gay bathhouse.

Teaching Moral Sex: A History of Religion and Sex Education in the United States by Kristy L. Slominski

Reviewed by: Teaching Moral Sex: A History of Religion and Sex Education in the United States by Kristy L. Slominski Courtney Ann Irby Kristy L. Slominski, Teaching Moral Sex: A History of Religion and Sex Education in the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021) Motivated by a desire to complicate the standard narrative that positions sex versus religion, scholars in recent years have tried to illustrate that religious groups are not inherently sex negative. This binary thinking has been challenged by efforts to showcase the discursive shift in purity culture that presents sex as “great” and a “gift” as long as it occurs within heterosexual marriage. Yet the loudest voices continue to represent “religion” as a reactionary position. As Kristy Slominski’s Teaching Moral Sex: A History of Religion and Sex Education in the United States beautifully documents, long before conservative Protestants began to wage battles against sex, liberal Protestants had already formatively shaped public understandings of sex. By expanding the religious groups under investigation to include liberal Protestants, as well as their interfaith efforts with Jews and Catholics, she reminds readers that religion is not a unified concept, nor is it inherently a conservative force that seeks to restrict sex. Teaching Moral Sex weaves together the histories of two sex education movements that dominated the twentieth century—the first, initially called the American Social Hygiene Association (ASHA), played a critical role in the first part of the century until a group originally called the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) picked up the mantle in the [End Page 159] 1960s. To situate the role of religion in these movements and explore how it shaped their motivations and strategies, the book is divided into five substantive chapters that delineate the “phases of the movement for public sex education” (7) and also provide an overarching chronological narrative for how we arrived at contemporary sex education disputes. To provide a context for the emergence of sex education, Slominski convincingly argues in chapter one that readers must first understand how late nineteenth-century liberal Protestant efforts to combat prostitution were bridged with moralized medical efforts to reduce venereal diseases. Rather than science and religion existing in tension, she illustrates how liberal Christian values served as the glue that held together these different social movements as they merged to become ASHA. After establishing their origins, chapter two turns to explain the type of sex education curricula that ASHA helped to create and their efforts to partner with colleges, YMCAs, and the military to provide these programs. Recognizing the limitations of scientific facts to change the sexual attitudes and behavior of young people sufficiently, ASHA relied on liberal Christian ideals and normative frameworks to craft a “moral education.” Again, illustrating the failure of overly simplistic binaries, Slominski reveals how medicine and religion worked collaboratively to shape cultural norms around sexuality that constrained it to marriage but also challenged what they saw as repressive tendencies to label all aspects of sex as negative. Chapter three chronicles how these redemptive efforts to conceptualize sexuality as a positive force were channeled into family life education programs. In addition to taming the taboo subject, she notes how family life became a common framework that facilitated interfaith conversations, since Catholics, Jews, and liberal Protestants all saw the family as the basic unit of society and feared that it was in need of support. While family life education dominated midcentury efforts, chapter four explains how SIECUS emerged once again to argue that sex education should be a public health concern and how their efforts to develop comprehensive education programs incited what we have come to know as the “sex education controversies” of the 1960s. Conservative Protestants’ negative responses to their situational ethics that promoted personal choice and responsibility over moral absolutes showcase how these debates were not an example of secularism versus religion but were at least partially structured by theological differences in moral decision-making. Slominski also illustrates that liberal Protestants’ “new morality” began to transform sexuality into a site of spiritual growth long before conservative Protestants would do so. Chapter five pulls these themes together to showcase how conservative Protestants’ engagement with SIECUS...