24 July 2007 | Vol. 7, No. 2

Sexual Illiteracy

by JOHN W. EVANS

The day that Magic Johnson retired, anchors inflated condoms on the evening news.

My erotic vernacular expanded with the rituals of their nightly broadcast.

The school counselor organized a semester of AIDS-awareness education.

New grants funded the after-school program, we ate cookies and watched old movies,

James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause and Henry Fonda in