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Responses to Brook’s sex education guides

Brook Advisory Centres used graphic imagery and everyday language in their sex-education guides. While the guides were popular with the young people they were aimed at, they caused controversy among some politicians and the media.

Words by Caroline Rusterholz

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Photographic black and white head and shoulders portrait of Dr Caroline Rusterholz.

Caroline Rusterholz

Dr Caroline Rusterholz is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.