Re: This made me laugh

Lots of sadly funny stuff in there. I'm trying to think of a single word for "hilarious, but sad in its effects".

One example from the 1964 piece: "Boys become sexually mature -- and indeed reach the very height of their sexual capacity and interest -- in their adolescent years. They are discouraged from making any outright sexual overtures to girls, and as a matter of fact few girls that age are interested in sex anyway."

Young people today might have difficulty believing it, but this was the dominant theory for over a century - not just that adolescent girls were not interested in sex, but that females in general were uninterested. Some sectors of the Religious Right continue to assert this to this day, and I certainly recall Christian "sex education" books that made such claims, along with such claims as "9 out of 10 boys masturbate, but less than 1 out of 10 girls masturbate" and "the average adult penis is three inches long" (that's 7.5 cm). The religious right doesn't just oppose sex education, it strongly promotes sex miseducation.