The Education of Eros is the first and only comprehensive history of sexuality education and the "problem" of adolescent sexuality from the mid-20th century to the beginning of the 21st.

Dennis L. Carlson is Professor of Curriculum, Cultural Studies of Education, and the Social Foundations of Education, Miami University.

Introduction. Acknowledgements. Chapter One: Constructing the "Normal" Adolescent: 1950s and 1960s Chapter Two: SIECUS, "Value-Neutral" Sex Education, and the Battle in Anaheim Chapter Three: The "Problem" of Teen Pregnancy and the Welfare Mother: 1960s and 1970s Chapter Four: From the Problem of the Homosexual to the Problem of Homophobia Chapter Five: The Plague: AIDS/HIV Education and Activism in the 1980s Chapter Six: The Abstinence-Only Era and the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 Chapter Seven: Foucault, Disciplinary Power, and Care of the Self Chapter Eight: Cultural Studies and the Social Construction of the Adolescent Body Chapter Nine: Conclusion