ABSTRACT
Initial calls for school-based sexuality education came out of a group of “moral reformers including suffragists, clergy, temperance workers, and physicians dedicated to eliminating venereal disease”. In the early 1960s, educators, parents, and medical professionals constructed a movement to open discussion in public forums, such as schools, to allow for conversations about sexuality education to take place. This chapter discusses a conversation crucial to understanding the environment in which sex education lives without presuming to be an all-inclusive history of sexuality education in the United States (US). In the early 1960s, educators, parents, and medical professionals constructed a movement to open discussion in public forums, such as schools, to allow for conversations about sexuality education to take place. In 1964, Sexuality Education and Information Council of the US was founded and led by Dr. Mary Calderone, who since has served as the voice of this coalition for comprehensive sexuality education.
