This time, over the proper curriculum for a sex education class.
Then, one momentous day she issues breaking news on oral sex: Some people enjoy it.
Ruth thus draws the ire of born-again Christian parents who threaten a lawsuit.
To placate them, the school brings in dolled-up Virginity Consultant for balance.
Oh yeah, and one more thing: Im a virgin.
Perrotta leaves the fate of these sweet, baffled characters hanging, which is a disappointment.
But he resists giving firm answers to the thorny moral questions lurking in his material which is a relief.
Sex, this novel suggests, may not be the sacred mystery that Perrottas abstinence advocates say it is.
