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In 1991, the world stood on the cusp of a digital revolution. The Berlin Wall had fallen, MTV was in its prime, and the first website was still a year away. For adolescents, the onset of puberty was navigated with a distinct blend of classroom diagrams, library books with clinical drawings, whispered rumors in school hallways, and the occasional, often awkward, "talk" with a parent. Sex education in 1991 was a landscape of stark contrasts: between abstinence-only messages and the grim realities of the AIDS epidemic, between biological mechanics and a near-total silence on emotional intimacy, and between the experiences of boys and girls, which were often treated as separate, parallel universes. The Berlin Wall had fallen, MTV was in

Chicago Tribune. "Schools Walk Fine Line in Sex Education." September 26, 1993.