(1966)
The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
LP Cover, The Beach Boys, (Capitol Records)
“Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” the first and most well-known single from the Beach Boys’ critically acclaimed, commercially underrated album Pet Sounds, is an angst-y, yet hopeful anthem to the trials and tenderness of teen lust. Read the rest of this entry »
This book was aimed at high school students, and the advice that it offers is a series of straightforward questions and answers intended to help the friends of gay teens accept and understand their friends. Read the rest of this entry »
Informal sources like this pamphlet can and have communicated information about sex and maturation as much as formal educational literature. Read the rest of this entry »
Ironically and somewhat cruelly, feeling ‘different’ is perhaps the universal characteristic of puberty. Nevertheless, it has historically constituted a major problem for sex educators and young adults (and continues to plague the thoughts of these same parties today.) Read the rest of this entry »
Beyond the feat of punctuation in its title (Blume attempting–and succeeding–at alluding to her protagonist’s temperamental and hesitant constitution with interrogatory, interrupted, and declarative statements, all before the book has even begun,) Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. is an important document both visually and culturally in the history of American sex ed. Read the rest of this entry »
This poster represents an evolution of the peer-to-peer approach to educating teenagers about HIV and AIDS. Read the rest of this entry »
Arguably Salt-n-Pepa’s most well-known hit, “Let’s Talk About Sex” was the most successful single of the band’s third album Black’s Magic. Read the rest of this entry »
