Shaking the Tree of Knowledge for Forbidden Fruit: Where Adolescents Learn About Sexuality and Contraception

doi:10.4324/9781410604170-2

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Shaking the Tree of Knowledge for Forbidden Fruit: Where Adolescents Learn About Sexuality and Contraception

ABSTRACT

It is paradoxically the Holy Grail and forbidden fruit of adolescence. Few other combinations of three letters are so cloaked in mystery, so freighted with developmental and health implications as the word sex.