The Politics Of Sex
December, 2001
new report, same old reactionWe'd heard about the project for months. Surgeon General David Satcher had put together a report so explosive it had to be shelved. No one involved in the project had a copy to leak. This was X-Files territory. Did it include a plea to provide flavored condoms in schools? A call for mandatory masturbation? A plan to teach birth control through anal sex?In late June, Satcher finally released the unseen but already controversial document. It is less about sex and more...