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title: "Akin Roadtrip: Our Quest to Bring Sex Education to the Man Who Invented \"Legitimate Rape\""
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# Akin Roadtrip: Our Quest to Bring Sex Education to the Man Who Invented "Legitimate Rape"

Truthout • September 10, 2012

> We're going to... bring you some mind-bending: Rep. Todd Akin's (R-Missouri) statements about female biology. When we heard them, we knew immediately: that guy needs some accurate, evidence-based words and pictures about gender and sexuality, stat. So, with our good pals from Our Bodies, Ourselves, we decided to take a road trip to St. Louis.

  
**Read the full story:** [Akin Roadtrip: Our Quest to Bring Sex Education to the Man Who Invented "Legitimate Rape"](http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11447-akin-roadtrip-our-quest-to-bring-sex-education-to-the-man-who-invented-legitimate-rape "Akin Roadtrip: Our Quest to Bring Sex Education to the Man Who Invented "Legitimate Rape"") by Sara Drake and Anne Elizabeth Moore[Read the full article ](http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11447-akin-roadtrip-our-quest-to-bring-sex-education-to-the-man-who-invented-legitimate-rape)

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