The road to hell is paved with academic studies, speculation about the "actual consequences" of what society has always abhorred - and books like Judith Levine's "Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children From Sex."
This apologia for pedophilia, published last week by the University of Minnesota Press (and publicized in a puff piece in USA Today), is not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach.
She thinks this interferes with the primary mission of sex educators - teaching kids that whatever feels good by definition is good. It's important that adolescents are aware of all of their options - premarital sex, gay sex and (the latest final frontier) "inter-generational sex."
For the complete article go to the Boston Herald website.