A librarian who specializes in teen books weighs in

I got an email over the weekend from a librarian who objects to Dr. Libby's quote about his book being the first sex book not about abstinence since 1968 ("The Naked Truth About Sex Ed"). She writes:

I happen to be a Teen Services Librarian in a public library, and I know for a fact that hundreds of books about sex have been published for teens in the past couple of decades. With AIDS and STDs it would be criminal not to have these books available. In fact, there are so many non-abstinence sex-ed books out there that the Library Of Congress has created a Subject Heading entitled: "Sex Instruction For Teenagers." Let me name a few of these books for you, all published in the last 5 or so years, since neither you nor Dr. Libby bothered to do any research: "Sex, Puberty and All That Stuff by Jacqui Bailey," "Like it is: a Teen Sex Guide by James Lieberman," and "Making Sexual Decisions: the Ultimate Teen Guide by Kris Gowen." Of course there are many more, these are just a few that happen to be on the shelves in my library.

While my forays through Amazon did not show me another book about sexual pleasure for teens, I should have put Dr. Libby's quote in more context and let y'all know that some other teen sex books don't portray abstinence as the only/best choice (although his doesn't consider abstinence much of an option at all). One book he did mention in our interview (and you can hear it in the podcast) is Ruth Bell's "Changing Bodies, Changing Lives," although it's somewhat of an encyclopedia and "Naked Truth" is more conversational and packed with modern Q&A.