Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers By Mark Regnerus. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, 290 pages. Hardcover, $25.00.

Not since the release of Jeffrey Moran's Teaching Sex (Moran, 2000), and Janice Irvine's Talk about Sex (Irvine, 2002), has such a comprehensive treatment of adolescent sexuality--as we see in Forbidden Fruit--been offered to the public, in language that so clearly translates scientific findings into meaningful and practical accounts. Forbidden Fruit distinguishes itself from these publications, however, on two accounts. Not only does it sidestep one of researchers' and educators' favorite topics regarding adolescent ...