Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
Volume 39, Number 2, June 2007
VIEWPOINT
Sex Education and Sexual Socialization: Roles for Educators and Parents
By Ronny A. Shtarkshall, John S. Santelli and Jennifer S. Hirsch
DOI:10.1363/3911607
Ronny A. Shtarkshall
is head of the Social
Science and Health
Behavior Program,
Braun School of
Public Health, and of
community medicine
at the Hebrew University
and Hadassah
Medical Organization,
Jerusalem. John
S. Santelli is professor
of clinical population
and family health and
clinical pediatrics,
Heilbrunn Department
of Population
and Family Health;
and Jennifer S. Hirsch
is associate professor
of sociomedical
sciences—both at the
Mailman School of
Public Health,
Columbia University,
New York.