"Harmful to Minors"

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In her book, "Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex," Judith Levine puts forth a thought provoking argument that by shielding America's children from sex, America is harming its children. In essence, the protector has become the problem. The paper shows that those hardest hit by Levine's targeted analysis are the very people trusted to protect children.

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"Levine dissects kiddie porn and cyberporn, considered by many to be two of the greatest threats invading the family home today. She contends that studies in the 1950s proved that child pornography was a crime led and kept alive by a very small fraction of society. (p32) The problem was not the perverts who traded and sold yellowing photographs, it was the zealous adults bringing it into the open and then sensationalizing it to the point of starting a nation wide panic."

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