WWW

• CMU Handcuffing Cyberspace Sex

  Chronicles how Carnegie Mellon blocked access to sexually explicit materials available from its campus computers. Obviously, thewy are worried about the material's influences on their students.

• Pontifical Council for the Family

  This document contains suggestions and guidelines regarding sex education (among other subjects) as determined by the Roman Catholic CHurch for its members.

Journal Articles

• Christopher, S.F., Johnson, D.C., & Roosa, M.W. (1993). Family, individual, and social correlates of early Hispanic adolescent sexual expression. Journal of Sex Research, 30, (1), 54-61.

Peer influences, not family, had the most effects on the sexual expression of the participants.

• LaTour, M.S., Pitts, R.E., & Snook-Luther, D.C. (1990). Female nudity, arousal, and ad response: An experimental Investigation. Journal of Advertising, 19 (4), 51-62.

Used a causal modeling approach to determine if modest or nude ads would effect ad impressions. They concluded that a small effect existed.

• Netting, N. (1992). Sexuality in youth culture: Identity and change. Adolscence, 27, 108, 961-976.

Explores three sexual subcultures and how they are affected by the fact that "sexual expression is an important part of becoming and adult in Western cultures.

• Tein, L. (1994). Children's sexuality and the new information technology: A Foucaultian approach. Social and Legal Studies, 3, (1), 121-147.

Discusses how laws governing sexual expression are the result of society's concern about children's sexuality.

• Winick, C., & Evans, J.T. (1994). Is there a national standard with respect to attitudes toward sexually explicit media material? Archives of Sexual Behavior, 23, 4, 405-419.

Discusses how we nationally we are already accepting sexually explicit content and nudity in the mass media.