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Sexuality Education Timeline

  • Publication of "Adolescnce"

    Publication of "Adolescnce"
    G. Hall Stanley writes "Adolescence: It's Psychology and it's relations to physiology, anthropology, sociology, sex, crime, religion, and education.
  • ASHA was formed

    ASHA was formed
    The American Social Hygiene Association was formed. This group was the first of many to develop a sexuality education organization. These men and women believed that the problems of society could be resolved by solving the issues between men and women out in society and in the privacy of their homes.
  • Organization of Planned Parenthood

    Organization of Planned Parenthood
  • Trojan condoms are manufactured

    Trojan condoms are manufactured
    Currently Americans #1 condom brand
  • American Association of School Physicians is founded

    American Association of School Physicians is founded
    Currently known as The American School Health Association
  • Promotion of Sex Education programs

    ASHA collaborates with the Federal council of Churches and the National Congress of parents and teachers to promote sex education programs.
  • Monitoring of Venereal Disease

    ASHA begins to monitor the rates of venereal disease by collecting data, and the Center of Disease Control analyses the data.
  • First oral Contraceptive is invented

    First oral Contraceptive is invented
    Frank Colton invents Envoid, the first oral contraceptive.
  • ASHA changes name

    ASHA changes name
    The American Social Hygiene Association changes their name to The American Social Health Association.
  • SIECUS is founded by Mary S. Calderone

    SIECUS is founded by Mary S. Calderone
    Sexuality information and educationcouncil of the United States
  • Roe vs. Wade

    Roe vs. Wade
    Legalization of abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy.
  • National Herpes Resources

    ASHA creates a National Herpes resource center and hotline.
  • National AIDS resources

    ASHA opens a National AIDS hotline, which is the largest health related hotline in the world.
  • Goodridge vs. Dept. of Public Health

    Goodridge vs. Dept. of Public Health
    The ruling of this case legalized same sex marriage in Massachusetts making Massachusetts the first U.S. state to legalize same sex marriage.
  • Abstinence only program expires

    Abstinence only program expires
    Title V: Abstinence only until marriage program expired and was refused by nearly half the U.S. states.
  • ASHA changes name

    ASHA changes name
    The American Social Health Association changes their name to The American Sexual Health Association.
  • Obama releases 2014 budget

    In this budget Obama proposed that $104.6 million go towards teen pregnancy prevention initiative, $32.4 million would go to The Division of Adolescent and School Health total funding, and $82 million to go toward the Personal responsibility Education Programs state-requested funding.