Last month, The Care and Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls, turned 25. The American Girl book has sold over six million copies since it first published in 1998, and its relevance has stayed well within the cultural zeitgeist and only grown over the years. And for the past quarter of a century, it has often taken the place of (or at least heavily supplemented) young people’s—particularly people with vulvas—early sex education in the U.S., which is often rudimentary at best.
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