The Purity Myth (34 page)

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the porn connection

1. Focus on the Family. “In what direction is the pornography industry moving these days?” http://family.custhelp.com.
   

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2. Carmine Sarracino and Kevin Scott.
   The Porning of America: The Rise of Porn Culture, What It Means, and Where We Go From Here
   (Boston: Beacon Press, 2008), 12.
   

3. Robert Jensen.
   Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity
   (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2007).
   

4. Ibid., 80.

1. Good
   magazine. “Internet Porn: The Lucrative Business of Online Sex,” May 2007.
   

2. Jensen.
   Getting Off,
   4. 7. Ibid., 57.
   

1. Shauna Swartz. “XXX Offender,” in
   BitchFest,
   ed. Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006), 318.
   

2. www.realdoll.com.
   

3. www.coverdoll.com.
   

4. Meghan Laslocky. “Just like a woman,”
   Salon,
   October 11, 2005, www.salon.com.
   

5. www.sexdollrental.com
   . (As of publication, this site has been removed.)
   

6. MSNBC.com, “Sheen plays with dolls, destroys the evidence,” October 10, 2007,
   www. msnbc.msn.com.
   

7. Ariel Levy.
   Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
   (New York: Free Press, 2005), 19.
   

8. Courtney Martin.
   Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body
   (New York: Free Press, 2007), 245.
   

9. Concerned Women for America. “‘De-pornification?’ CWA’s Jan LaRue Challenges Young Adults,” December 6, 2006, www.cwfa.org.
   

10. Brenda Zurita. “Score Two for the Perverts,” Concerned Women for America press release, March 2008.
    

11. Barton Gellman. “Recruits Sought for Porn Squad,”
    Washington Post,
    September 20, 2005.
    

12. Xeni Jardin. “FBI’s new War on Porn—vagina, not Osama, is greater threat,”
    BoingBoing,
    

    September 20, 2005, www.boingboing.net.
    

13. A Queer Tribe, “Obscenity Prosecutions,” December 8, 2005, http://aqueertribe
    

    .tribe.net.
    

14. Associated Press, “Ala. sex-toy ban goes to Supreme Court,” May 15, 2007.
    

15. Reuters, “Texas mom faces trial for selling sex toys,” February 11, 2004.
    

16. Allison Kasic. “Take Back the Date,” Independent Women’s Forum, February 13, 2008, www.iwf.org/campus.
    

17. Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute. “The Vagina Monologues Exposed: A Student’s Guide to V-Day,” 21.
    

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25. Ibid., 23.

1. Lakshmi Chaudhry. “Babes in BushWorld: Raunch culture offers good old-fashioned pleasure, Republican style,”
   In These Times,
   October 28, 2005.
   

2. Naomi Wolf. “The Porn Myth,”
   New York
   magazine, October 20, 2003.
   

3. Andrea Rubenstein. “Sex-positive does
   not
   mean misogyny-friendly!” January 29, 2006,
   

   Shrub,
   http://blog.shrub.com/archives/tekanji.
   

4. Audacia Ray.
   Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads, and Cashing in on Internet Sexploration
   (Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2007).
   

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classroom chastity

1. Choosing the Best PATH.
   Teachers’ guide, 7.
   

2. Michael Alison Chandler. “Christian Sex-Ed Lesson Criticized,”
   Washington Post,
   March 15, 2007.
   

3. Henry Waxman. “The Content of Federally Funded Abstinence-Only Education Pro- grams,” United States House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform, Special Investigations Division, December 2004.
   

4. Ibid., 13–14.

1. Ibid.
   

2. Me, My World, My Future.
   Revised HIV material, 258.
   

3. Reasonable Reasons to Wait.
   Teachers’ guide (unit 5): 19.
   

4. Sex Respect.
   Student workbook, 11.
   

5. WAIT training.
   

6. Choosing the Best Life.
   Leader guide, 7.
   

7. http://proknowledge.org.
   

8. Why kNOw.
   Abstinence-only textbook, 59.
   

13. Ibid., 61.

1. Reasonable Reasons to Wait.
   

2. Friends First. WAIT training manual.
   

3. Why kNOw,
   76.
   

4. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Children, Youth and Families. “Child Maltreatment 2004,” Chapter 3, 2006.
   

5. No More Money. “Reality Behind Programs,” 2005, www.nomoremoney.org/reality.html.
   

6. Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. New guidelines.
   

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2. Nico Pitney, “New Bush Policy: All Gays Should Be Celibate,”
   Think Progress,
   April 17, 2006, http://thinkprogress.org.
   

3. Zazzle. Online “Wait Wear” store, www.zazzle.com/waitwear.
   

4. Feministing.com. “No sex for you, my pretty!” May 31, 2006, www.feministing.com
   / archives/005129.html.
   

5. Abstinence Clearinghouse. Abstinence Idol registration, www.abstinenceconfer- ence.net.
   

6. John Santelli et al. “Abstinence and abstinence-only education: A review of U.S. policies and programs,”
   Journal of Adolescent Health
   38, no. 1 (2006): 72–81.
   

7. Karen Perrin. “Abstinence-Only Education: How We Got Here and Where We’re Go- ing,”
   Journal of Public Health Policy,
   January 1, 2003.
   

8. Daley. “Exclusive Purpose,” SIECUS report, April/May 1, 1997.
   

9. Perrin. “Abstinence-Only Education.”
   

10. Title V, Section 510 of the Social Security Act.
    

11. Advocates for Youth. “The History of Federal Abstinence-Only Funding,” www.advo- catesforyouth.org/publications.
    

12. Legal Momentum. “Sex, Lies & Stereotypes: Profiles of Federally Abstinence-Only Grant Recipients,” www.legalmomentum.org.
    

13. Feministing.com. “Leslee Unruh is coming for your babies,” May 24, 2007, www.femi- nisting.com/archives/007079.html.
    

14. Myra Batchelder, “Who Is Leslee Unruh?” Planned Parenthood, May 10, 2006,
    www. plannedparenthood.org/issues-action.
    

15. Eric Resnick, “State ‘abstinence’ head suspended in ethics case,”
    Gay People’s Chronicle,
    

    April 14, 2006, www.gaypeopleschronicle.com.
    

16. Legal Momentum. “Sex, Lies & Stereotypes: Profiles of Federally Funded Abstinence- Only Grant Recipients.”
    

17. Ibid.
    

18. Amy Bleakley, PhD, MPH, Michael Hennessy, PhD, MPH, and Martin Fishbein, PhD. “Public Opinion on Sex Education in US Schools”
    Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
    160 (2006):1151–1156.
    

19. Documentary Educational Resources.
    Abstinence Comes to Albuquerque
    website,
    www. der.org/films/abstinence-comes-to-albuquerque.html.
    

20. YouTube. “BULL$#!+ - Abstinence Only” video, www.youtube.com.
    

21. www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2007/04/09/abstinence-only-abstaining-from-eth
    ics- while-imposing-morality.
    

22. American Psychological Association. “Based on the Research, Comprehensive Sex
    

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    Education Is More Effective at Stopping the Spread of HIV Infection, Says APA Com- mittee,” February 23, 2005, www.apa.org/releases/sexeducation.html
    ; American Medical Association. “Sexuality Education, Abstinence, and Distribution of Condoms in Schools,” www.ama-assn.org; American Academy of Pediatrics. “Sexuality Education for Children and Adolescents,”
    Pediatrics
    108 (2001): 498–502; American Public Health Association. “Abstinence and U.S. Abstinence-Only Education Policies: Ethical and Hu- man Rights Concerns,” www.apha.org/advocacy/policy.
    

23. Kevin Freking. “States Refuse Abstinence Ed. Grants,”
    Time,
    June 24, 2008, www.time. com/time/politics.
    

24. www.parentsfortruth.org.
    

25. Rob Stein. “U.S. Campaign to Promote Abstinence Begins,”
    Washington Post,
    June 1, 2008.
    

26. Christopher Trenholm, Barbara Devaney, et al. “Impacts of Four Title V, Section 510 Abstinence Education Programs,” 2007.
    

27. Hannah Brückner and Peter Bearman. “After the promise: The STD consequences of adolescent virginity pledges,”
    Journal of Adolescent Health
    36, no. 4 (2005): 271–78.
    

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legislating sexuality

1. Archive of the Biting Beaver. “Morality causes, EC, and broken condoms,” May 31, 2008, http://archiveofthebitingbeaver.wordpress.com.
   

2. NARAL Pro-Choice America. Refusal to Provide Medical Services,
   Who Decides?,
   2007.
   

3. Cristina Page. Interview with the author, December 2008.
   

4. NARAL Pro-Choice America.
   Who Decides?
   

5. Jim Abrams. “30 states said at risk of abortion ban,” Associated Press, October 6, 2004.
   

6. Lawrence B. Finer and Stanley K. Henshaw. “Abortion Incidence and Services in the United States in 2000,”
   Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health,
   January/February 2003.
   

7. Stanley K. Henshaw. “Abortion Incidence and Services in the United States, 1995–1996,”
   

   Family Planning Perspectives,
   November/December 1998.
   

8. Katha Pollitt. “Pregnant and Dangerous,”
   Nation,
   April 8, 2004; Rick Montgomery. “Push for fetal safety blurs women’s rights,” McClatchy Newspapers, July 11, 2006.
   

9. Montgomery. “Push for fetal safety.”
   

10. January W. Payne. “Forever Pregnant,”
    Washington Post,
    May 16, 2006.
    

11. Ann Friedman. “Over-the-Counter Insurgency,”
    Mother Jones,
    August 1, 2006.
    

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2. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Meeting transcript, December 16, 2004, www.fda. gov/ohrms/dockets.
   

3. Gina Kolata. “A Contraceptive Clears a Hurdle to Wider Access,”
   The New York Times,
   

   December 17, 2003.
   

4. David Hager.
   Stress and the Woman’s Body
   (Ada, MI: Revell, 1998).
   

5. Kristina Shaw. “Protecting women’s reproductive rights on college campuses,”
   Minneso- ta Daily,
   July 27, 2005. Blog for Choice. “BC availability on campus ‘outrages’ Wisconsin lawmaker,” March 18, 2005, www.blogforchoice.com.
   

6. Marc Kaufman. “9 Arrested Protesting Morning-After Pill Plan,”
   Washington Post,
   Janu- ary 8, 2005; Government Accountability Office. “Decision Process to Deny Initial Ap- plication for Over-the-Counter Marketing of the Emergency Contraceptive Drug Plan B Was Unusual,” November 14, 2005, www.gao.gov/new.items/d06109.pdf.
   

7. Rachel Benson Gold and Elizabeth Nash. “State Abortion Counseling Policies and the Fundamental Principles of Informed Consent,”
   Guttmacher Policy Review
   10, no. 4 (2007).
   

8. South Dakota Legislature. South Dakota Codified Laws, http://legis.state.sd.us
   / statutes.
   

9. Sarah Blustain. “Consenting Adults,”
   American Prospect
   , April 13, 2007.
   

10. The Guttmacher Institute. State policies in brief, October 2008.
    

11. Eric Kleefeld. “Brownback Would Require Women To Get An Ultrasound Before An Abortion,” TPM Election Central, September 20, 2007.
    

12. Chinué Turner Richardson and Elizabeth Nash. “Misinformed Consent: The Medi- cal Accuracy of State-Developed Abortion Counseling Materials,”
    Guttmacher Policy Review
    9, no. 4 (2006).
    

13. At Center Network. Libertyville abortion demonstration video, www.atcenternetwork. com/?p=64.
    

14. John Solomon. “Huckabee Would Criminalize Abortion Providers,” The Trail,
    Washing- ton Post,
    December 30, 2007.
    

15. NARAL Pro-Choice Arizona. “NARAL Pro-Choice Arizona asks K-mart to take action against pharmacist manager who counseled lying about availability of birth control,” April 26, 2005.
    

16. Rob Stein. “‘Pro-Life’ Drugstores Market Beliefs,”
    Washington Post,
    June 16, 2008.
    

17. Mike Hixenbaugh. “Abortion law would give fathers a say State legislators propose change,”
    Record-Courier,
    July 30, 2007.
    

18. George W. Bush. “Marriage Protection Week, 2003: A Proclamation,” October 3, 2003, www.whitehouse.gov/news.
    

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19. Jessica Valenti. “A Good Job Is Hard to Find,”
    AlterNet,
    April 5, 2006.
    

20. Rutgers Center for American Woman and Politics. Fast Facts: Levels of Office, www
    

    .cawp.rutgers.edu/fast_facts/levels_of_office.
    

21. Lynn M. Paltrow and TomPaine.com. “Coercive Medicine,” National Advocates for Pregnant Women, March 21, 2004, http://advocatesforpregnantwomen.org/mai
    n/ publications.
    

22. Center for Reproductive Rights. “The NYT Criticizes ‘Partial-Birth’ Strategy,”
    Repro- ductive Freedom News
    VII, no. 5 (1998).
    

23. Daily Kos. “VA Legislative Sentry: Have a Miscarriage, Go to JAIL?” January 6, 2005, www.dailykos.com.
    

24. Feministing.com. “A loser legislator makes his big comeback,” March 18, 2008, www
    

.feministing.com/archives/008815.html.

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public punishments

1. Claire Luna. “3 Guilty of Sexual Assault in O.C. Gang-Rape Retrial,”
   Los Angeles Times,
   

   March 24, 2005.
   

2. Aya Mueller. “GW sued for negligence, malpractice,”
   GW Hatchet,
   October 4, 2007.
   

3. Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network (RAINN).
   

4. The Happy Feminist. “Maryland’s Court Interpretation of Rape Law Is Predicated on the Notion of Women as Chattel,” October 31, 2006, http://happyfeminist.typepad.com.
   

5. Larry Celona. “Beautiful Co-ed Found Murdered—Body Dumped Near B’klyn High- way,”
   New York Post,
   February 27, 2006.
   

6. Veronika Belenkaya and Alison Gendar. “City Beauty Slain by Beast. Tortured & dumped by road,”
   New York Daily News,
   February 28, 2006.
   

7. Lauren Elkies. “Slain Student Left Bar Alone After 4 a.m.,”
   New York Sun,
   March 2, 2006; Donovan Slack. “Fearless in the City. Some Women Still Party as If Invulnerable,”
   Boston Globe,
   March 9, 2006.
   

8. NBC News. Transcripts, April 5, 2006.
   

9. CBS News. Transcripts, March 9, 2006.
   

10. Jessica Heslam. “WRKO radio host defends talk of victim ‘asking for trouble,’”
    Boston Herald,
    March 2, 2006.
    

11. Naomi Schaefer Riley. “Ladies, You Should Know Better,”
    Wall Street Journal,
    April 14, 2006.
    

12. Katie Roiphe.
    The Morning After: Fear, Sex, and Feminism
    (New York: Back Bay Books, 1994).