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LARA FREIDENFELDS

Historian of Health, Reproduction, and Parenting in America

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    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • Oct 23, 2017

    Pornography on the Playground

    When I was 19, I had a summer job supervising a playground. It was a pretty lame job. It paid $5 an hour, and it was outside in the sticky summer heat. The hours alternated between utter boredom and the kind of excitement I’d rather avoid – breaking up shouting matches, figuring out whether the kid who had sandbox sand thrown in his face needed first aid, running to make sure the child who I hadn’t seen in while was simply taking a long time in the bathroom and had not gone m
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    Lara Freidenfelds (Admin)
    • Sep 29, 2015

    Average-looking Married Couples Having Caring, Respectful Sex

    A friend of mine recently lamented that when he sat his teenage son down to have “The Talk,” he had to focus on the internet instead of relationships. “It’s not like the old days, when you’d tell your kid about the mechanics of it, and protection, that kind of thing. My son knew the basics from sex ed class at school, and didn’t want to talk with me about it. Instead, I had to lecture him about internet porn.” Wow. I hadn’t thought about it yet, because my kids are a bit youn
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