Introduction
As any good teacher knows, it's possible to learn more from one's students than can be taught to them.
In this day of modern sex knowledge, it is particularly shocking to learn that the students may know more about sex and sin than their supposedly wiser and more mature teachers. Modern youngsters don't have the inhibitions and hang-ups of their elders.
Of course, sex among teenagers has always been rampant. It is in the teen years that most kids develop sexually and even in the most puritanical days of American history, early pregnancy was a common piece of gossip. Today the average kid starts on some form of birth control almost before she can copulate . . .
This book is a lesson in the politics of learning. Burt Jenkins and Chris Poston are adults -members of the dying generation. In college they are taught they are more sophisticated, smarter and wiser than the students they are learning to teach. But in school, they learn another lesson: when it comes to taking and giving pleasure age and experience are not the final words.
Sex between adults and children always has provided revelations. It is not enough that it is proscribed-children are growing and developing, learning. Adults are content to know what they know and nothing else. Children have the whole world to learn about, and sometimes they have to teach the adults about itin bed and out.
It is hoped that this book will make the point that children are more than just children_ and should be treated that way.
-The Publishers