Messner's research pointed to the importance of the athletic institution in

a. training boys and girls to take good care of their health and to be responsible.
b. constructing narrow definitions of male sexuality.
c. keeping America healthy.
d. keeping kids off the streets where they might engage in unsafe sexual experimentation.


b

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