Alexandra M. Lord, Condom Nation: The US Government's Sex Education Campaign from World War I to the Internet
Bibliographic record
Abstract
News that Bristol Palin, eldest daughter of former American Republican Vice-Presidential ‘family values’ candidate Sarah Palin, abstinence ambassador for the Candies Foundation and unwed teenaged mother, will wed Levi Johnston, self-proclaimed redneck, Playgirl coverboy and father of her young son, led comedian Jay Leno to quip of the nuptials: ‘Rumor is that Bristol has asked Levi to wear his camouflage hunting vest—which would be the closest he's ever come to wearing protection of any kind’ (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2010/07/jay-leno-offers-up-some-bristol-palin-jokes-/1 accessed 20 July 2010). Readers of Alexandra Lord's Condom Nation will not consider the Palin–Johnston saga mere comedic fodder. They will likely treat it as an illustration of the one-step-forward-two-steps-back approach to sex education the American government has taken over the last century. Lord, a historian who worked for the federal Public Health Service (PHS), has written a sweeping account of PHS attempts to use sex education to combat sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancy. PHS origins lie in the Marine Hospital Service, treating sailors, tracking epidemics and researching communicable diseases. Women social reformers influenced the PHS's early sex education programmes. These were directed at boys and men and focused on protecting the family. The PHS next took up the goals of the American Social Hygiene Association (ASHA), which included removing the silence surrounding venereal diseases, studying their causes and effects and bringing sex education into schools.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.045 | 0.016 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".