Using extensive research backed by an impressive notes section, Zimmerman (Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century, 2009, etc.) untangles the complex history of how and why sex education was first introduced as a specific subject to be taught in schools and its subsequent rise and fall as a teachable course over the past 100 years.
Kirkus A ... Read moredense and detailed account of a still surprisingly contentious subject despite our increasingly liberal attitudes.
Lucy Scholes, The Independent Zimmerman's well-documented research offers a history of brave and reasoned efforts - to inform without inciting prurience, to warn without explaining, to respect without offending - that have all failed to win consensus or even to achieve demonstrable results.
Choice The book is an excellent source of information for the classroom in a diverse set of studies, such as history, education, human sexuality, gender studies, sociology, psychology and religious studies. Too Hot To Handle engages the reader and is a comfortable, yet interesting read.
Hennie Weiss, Metapsychology Online Reviews Zimmerman's rich book is a history of schools and education as much as it is a history of sex. It brings a curiously fresh approach to accounts of sex education... A major new account of a topic that has received some considerable attention in past decades of historical scholarship.
Alison Bashford, Journal of American History Show Less