I think you need to study the book "Talk About Sex" This contains the Battles over Sex Education in the United States

Now I am copying the book preface.






In this lively book, Janice M. Irvine offers not only the first
comprehensive history of the culture wars over sex education but also
an important examination of the politics of sexual speech in the United
States. Exploring the clash between professional sex education
advocates on the one hand and the politicized Christian Right on the
other, Irvine vividly demonstrates the crucial role that sexual speech
plays in cultural politics. Examining a range of issues played out in
living rooms and schools since the 1960s, she shows how a newly
emerging Christian Right chose sex education as one of its first
battlegrounds, then went on to dominate the public conversation on the
subject. Talk about Sex is a rich and fascinating consideration
of American sex education's strategic place in the long history of
efforts to regulate sexual morality by controlling sexual speech.


Irvine's original argument shows how sex education served as a bridge
issue between the Old Right and the New Right. Exploring the political
uses of emotion as it relates to sexuality, Irvine demonstrates how
this movement draws on the tenacious power of sexual shame and fear in
order to galvanize opposition to sex education. This book skillfully
demonstrates how—by framing sex education as radical, dangerous, and
immoral—the Right has fostered a climate in which it is risky, as
former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders found, to speak out in support
of sexuality education.




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