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Wednesday, April 3, 2002
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Book on sexuality causes frenz
Conservatives assail author, publisher for conten
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NEW YORK (AP) — A month before its
publication, a provocative book about chil
dren’s sexuality is being denounced by con
servatives as evil and prompting angry calls
for action against the University of
Minnesota Press.
The book. Harmful to Minors: The
Perils of Protec ting Children From Sex,
argues that young Americans, though bom
barded with sexual images from the mass
media, are often deprived of realistic advice
about sex.
“What’s happening to me is a perfect
example of the very hysteria that my book
is about,” New York-based author Judith
Levine said in an interview.
Levine has been working on the book
since the mid-1990s. With the recent sex
scandals involving clergy and young people,
she admits it’s a particularly challenging
time to make her case that American youth
are entitled to safe, satisfying sex lives.
Publisher after publisher rejected the
book — one called its contents “radioac
tive” — before the University of Minnesota
Press accepted the manuscript a year ago.
Writes Levine in her introduction, “In
America today, it is nearly impossible to pub
lish a book that says children and teenagers
can have sexual pleasure and be safe too.”
From the outset, officials at the
Minnesota press knew the bopk would be
controversial; they had the manuscript
reviewed by five academic experts, instead
of the usual two, to be sure its contentions
were based on sound research.
The uproar exceeded expectations after
the book was condemned on conservative
Internet sites.
“We’ve never seen anything quite this
angry,” said the press director, Douglas
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It's as if [parents] cannot
imagine that their
kids seek sex for the same
reasons they do.
— Judith Levine
author
Armato. “The book isn’t actually out yet.
What people are reacting to is not the book
itself, but the idea of the book.”
In “Harmful to Minors,” Levine argues
that abstinence-only sex education is mis
guided. She also suggests the threat of
pedophilia and molestation by strangers is
exaggerated by adults who want to deny
young people the opportunity for positive
sexual experiences.
“Squeamish or ignorant about the facts,
parents appear willing to accept the pun
dits’ worst conjectures about their chil
dren’s sexual motives,” Levine writes. “It’s
as if they cannot imagine that it
seek sex for the same reasons thev
Levine said much of the furor o\;
book stems from an interview she
month to Newhouse News Service,
the Roman Catholic Church sex-i
scandal. Newhouse quoted herassayi
sexual relationship between a priest
youth “conceivably” could be positive,
Levine said this week that she
proves of any sexual relationship
a youth and an authority figure, w
parent, teacher or priest. Howevi
believes teenagers deserve more
for the choices they make in com
affairs, and suggests that America’s
of-consent laws can sometimes
excessive punishment.
She cites the Dutch age-of-consettj
as a “good model” — it permits
between an adult and a young
between 12 and 16 if the young
consents. Prosecutions for coercive
may be sought by the young person
youth’s parents.
“Teens often seek out sex with
people, and they do so for underst;
reasons: an older person makes them
sexy and grown-up, protected and
writes Levine, who had an affair wittj
adult when she was a minor.
Several conservative media comme
tors and activists have accused Levine
condoning child abuse.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
(AP) — NASA confirmed the
start of its launch countdown
for space shuttle Atlantis on
Tuesday, following new securi
ty guidelines intended to thwart
a terrorist attack.
The countdown clocks in the
launch control center had actu
ally started the previous
evening for Atlantis’ liftoff
Thursday afternoon on a space
station assembly mission.
Under the 3-week-old poli
cy, NASA won’t announce the
start of the countdown until
after the fact and won’t disclose
the shuttle launch time until 24
hours in advance. In addition,
the astronauts’ movements on
launch day will not be televised
live as usual.
Shuttle program manager
Ron Dittemore said the policy
has not hampered shuttle work
or countdown activities.
“It does not change the
team’s approach one bit,” he
said.
NASA says liftoff will occur
sometime between 2 p.m. and 6
p.m. Thursday. Forecasters put
the odds of good launch weath
er at 70 percent, with low clouds
and rain the main concerns.
The only shuttle concern
involves the power-drive units
needed to close the pair of trap
doors on Atlantis’ belly once the
external fuel tank is jettisoned in
space. A door on Endeavour
closed several seconds slower
than usual in recent ground test
ing, and engineers want to make
sure the same problem does not
happen to Atlantis.
Dittemore said he expects
the engineering analysis to be
completed by late Wednesday
afternoon and that the findings
should clear Atlantis for an on-
time launch.
Atlantis is loaded with a 44-
foot girder for the international
space station that weighs nearly
27,000 pounds. It’s not just a
basic metal beam: This $600
million truss has 475,000 parts,
including a myriad of electrical
cabling and plumbing and four
sets of computers. It also has a
$190 million railcar and track
for eventual use by the space
station’s robot arm.
Additional girders will be
attached to this component on
future flights, and the entire
framework ultimately will
stretch more than 350 feet with
the railroad track running it
full length. The track isneeiit
to move the robot arm fro;
one end of the space station
the other, to build up the orta Wednesday n
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ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AP) — Officials
in the southern Philippines said Tuesday they
want U.S. troops to stay longer than planned to
ensure Muslim extremist rebels are wiped out and
planned infrastructure projects are completed.
More than 600 American military personnel
are taking part in a six-month counterterrorism
training exercise designed to help the Philippine
military crush the Abu Sayyaf group on Basilan
island. It is scheduled to end July 15.
U.S. officials are also planning to improve
water systems, build roads and an airstrip in the
poor, predominantly Muslim island province to
revive commerce and attract investment follow
ing years of fighting and high-profile crimes by
the Abu Sayyaf, local government spokesperson
Chris Puno said.
“We’ve been neglected for a long, long time
and we should give the Americans enough time
to help us,” Puno said.
Basilan mayors are considering a request to
the national government to extend the American
presence by six months, he said.
National Security Adviser Roilo Golez told
reporters that two U.S. senators who arrived
Monday for a three-day visit are assessing how
much more military aid the Philippines needs in
addition to the $100 million committed by
President Bush last November.
“We can expect more in terms of aircraft.
training, choppers, and I think that’s very vital
for the upgrade of our military capability,”
Golez said.
Tahira Ismael, mayor of Basilan's coastal town
of Lantawan, said her area of more than 27,000
people has been devastated by years of violence.
“It’s not just the peace and order. We badly
need development,” said Tahira. “Those oppos
ing the U.S. troops do not know what we are
going through here.”
Left-wing groups claim the presence of the
U.S. troops violates a constitutional restriction
on foreign troops in this former American
colony and could escalate conflict in the south,
many areas of which have long been a hotbed of
Muslim separatist rebellions.
Brig. Gen. Emmanuel Teodosio, director of
Philippine troops in the training exercise, said
U.S. military engineers may need to stay longer
in Basilan if Washington proceeds with plans to
finance infrastructure projects.
Lt. Gen. Roy Cimatu, who heads the south
ern Philippine military command, said the fewer
than 100 Abu Sayyaf rebels on Basilan have
split into three groups to evade pursuing troops.
It is unclear whether three people kidnapped
by the group —Wichita, Kan., missionaries
Gracia and Martin Burnham and Filipino nurse
Ediborah Yap — were separated, but indications
are that the captives remain on the island.
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