Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Damages Girls

by Carol Platt Liebau

Political analyst and commentator Carol Platt Liebau takes a hard look at the pervasiveness of sex in today's culture and the havoc it wreaks on young people.

Genres: Nonfiction, Feminism, Sexuality

320 pages, Hardcover

First published November 2, 2007

Reviews

[Books Ring Mah Bell · Rating 2 out of 5]

A magazine (Cosmo GIRL!) aimed at 10 year olds should NOT be telling girls what jeans to wear to make their 10 year old butts look hot. Nor do I think 9 year old girls need to wear thongs. This is pretty much where I end my agreement with the author. While she makes some valid points on the horrifying sexualization of young girls in our culture, (example, the "Little Miss Hooters" contest held in Florida, for girls 5 and UNDER!) she made a few "points" that made me want to burn this book. Or take it to a strip club and rub it up and down on the stripper pole, filling the pages with smegma (or whatever other funk the dancers leave there).

Here's my beef:
"People of faith believe their bodies...belong to the God who created them. As such, it's wrong to misuse or abuse ones body by engaging in promiscuous sex, without love or commitment."

I am not religious, therefore (by her logic) I hand out snatch and blow jobs like Halloween candy, giving it to everyone who comes to the door? Bullshit.

And this quote from Liz Fisher, Volunteer of the PALS program (a religious based "keep your pants up" program) pissed me off...
"How is someone supposed to make important moral decisions if she's never heard she has a soul as well as a body?"

Well, Liz, for starters, my vagina is not a clown car, with men coming and going as they please (pun intended). My body is my temple. I decide to not be a whore because I don't want to deal with pesky STD's and unwanted pregnancies.

Whatever. I'm pissed so this book only gets 2 stars for a 5 star topic...


GRRR!

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an interesting book. The first half of the book made me very sad. Every time I opened the book, I found myself commenting to my boyfriend, "Girls are so weak! Ugh! If I ever have a daughter I hope I am able to raise her to have self respect and base her choices on what SHE wants... not peer pressure and the weak desire to simply fit in." Honestly, this book made me question my ability to raise a confident, independent daughter. Our culture is clearly over-saturated with sex. I think the negative impact it has had on both girls AND boys is quite evident.

However, at the same time, I did not like the second half of the book. It views male/female relationships at the most base level. Women are meant to manipulate men for financial and social security. Men are only willing to put forth the minimum effort it takes to acquire sex. Preserving chastity should be about a personal choice to save the ultimate intimacy for the beauty of a loving relationship. It isn't a prize to dangle over the heads of men & used to manipulate them into marriage. This is the same attitude about marriage that my parents tried to teach me and I've always despised it. "Men only get married to have sex. Women only give out sex to get married." Bullcrap. Most men are just as motivated to find love and commitment as most women are. Most women enjoy sex just as much as most men. (And I feel bad for those who are so brainwashed that they don't enjoy it as much as men.) Basic truths, like love & commitment being an integral part of sex, or, that men and women process & respond to sex differently are used by the author to sell what I consider to be destructive views on romantic relationships.

Sorry.... I got a little off topic....

Also, I have mixed feelings about the chastity programs detailed in the books. While they have positive messages, they seem to be about status and putting yourself above other people. I think humility is an important part of making the right choices. The different chastity programs described didn't seem to approach this idea, but instead, discussed how the girls stand apart. I don't think teaching girls to stick their nose in the air is an essential part of chastity. There is a difference between self respect and looking down on others.

As for writing style, the book was a little tedious to read at times. The author detailed the plots of one move after another... followed by one tv show after another. After a while I found myself skipping ahead, thinking, "OK, I've got the picture."

Also, the author includes several statistics through out the book. In doing so, I think she is obligated to make the work a bit less "vanity press" and a bit more "scholarly". I wanted to know more about the studies.. how they were conducted, how the data was processed and correlated. I feel, for the most part, that her statistics were valid. But there were a few spots where I found myself wondering, "Are those two studies really comparable? Were they really studying the same things? Did they use the same methodologies? Ask the same questions?" etc. etc. Additional information about her examples would have been nice.

The book is very well sourced. There are several pages of works cited. (I think almost 100, but I don't have it in front of me, so I could be wrong.) So, theoretically, I could seek out the statistics she used and compare them myself. But, I'm to lazy to do that. haha. I wish the author had done it for me.

[Ashley · Rating 1 out of 5]

I couldn't finish this book. Perhaps I should've known when I saw the endorsement from Dr. Laura on the cover, but then I read the first couple of pages and I thought I'd give it a chance. MISTAKE.

This is the worst kind of moral panic literature about girls' sexuality. Look, I don't think we should be telling 13 year old girls to obsess about their butts or oral sex BUT I also think that Platt Liebau completely ignored that teen boys get these messages too. The author advocates for returning to a world when women were the "gatekeepers" of sex and sexuality as if men can't be trusted to keep it in their pants!

Beyond thinking that Platt Liebau misses the real problem, i.e. how media images shift expectations for ALL Americans not JUST girls, the book is poorly written and relies on surveys and statistics that are, at best, problematic. I don't feel comfortable using self-reports of teen girl sexual behavior from the 1940s and 1950s.

So yes, while I agree in theory with Platt-Liebau that we should work against this whole prosti-tot trend, I do NOT think the problem is girls' inability to make rational choices about their sexuality. I think the real problem is a culture that cannot discuss adolescent sexuality and sensuality without making it a abstinence v. full on sex parties question.

Do yourself a favor, find a book that takes a less reactionary approach to the subject of teens, sexuality, and feminism.

[Catherine · Rating 5 out of 5]

When one takes a moment to step back and think about the way in which our modern American culture is truly obsessed with sex, the problems created by that obsession come into a sharp and unsettling focus.

Carol Platt Liebau has illustrated how a culture which values sexual aggression in young teenage girls ultimately ends up devaluing their sexuality. By engaging in sex indiscriminately and/or outside the context of a committed relationship, a girl is both giving and receiving the message that sex has no real value, and neither does she, except as a sexual object.

Liebau exposes the illusion that sexual liberation has somehow given girls more power. On the contrary, she argues, in the past, when traditional courtship rituals were still in play, the girl actually had more power. When a boy needed to "woo" a girl, to impress her, to work to gain her affection and trust and create a real relationship with her, the girl was in the position to accept or reject him. Now, girls are the ones aggressively pursuing guys, and (unsurprisingly) it doesn't take much to get a guy in bed. And with another scantily-clad and sexually aggressive girl around the next corner, there is little need for a guy to pursue an exclusive relationship. There is no opportunity for a relationship to develop, and instead this pattern of behavior leads to serial hookups and painful breakups (more painful for the girls than the boys, due in part, but not entirely, to physiological issues).

This book helped me shift my perspective on the sex-obsessed culture. I had certainly given the matter a good deal of thought, and have never considered the pervasiveness of erotic images in popular culture to be a good thing. However, I had never truly stepped back and looked at those images from the perspective of a 12 or 13-year-old girl. Our culture portrays unrestrained sexuality, not only as "hip", but as normal and as a source of personal power. The messages young girls are getting are destructive to their sense of self. The messages are, "you are only as valuable as you are sexually desirable;" "your worth is tied up in your appearance;" and "if you're not having all kinds of sex with all kinds of people, you are somehow abnormal and missing out on a standard teen experience."

As I walked through the mall last weekend, I never felt so assaulted by the use of sex to sell products. And this is what it all boils down to: sexuality has been co-opted by the Market in order to make a profit. Sexuality has been turned into a commodity, and that commodity has rapidly become devalued. This must change.

"Prude" does not call for solutions such as abstinence-only education, nor does Liebau aggressively push a "save yourself for marriage" message. Though these ideas are part of the overall approach to changing social behaviors and attitudes among the young, at its core the message is that girls between the ages of 11 and 17 are far too young to be engaging in sexual activity. Regardless of religion or lack thereof, regardless of whatever moral compass one uses as a guide, we all should be in agreement that girls and boys alike need to develop a sense of self, of self-worth, and an identity which is not founded upon their sexual performance, desirability, or availability.

"Prude" does not portray sex as dirty and wrong. On the contrary, it presents sex as the ultimate connection two people can make. When there is no connection, sex loses not only its meaning, but also the deeper pleasure which is a part of a healthy sexual relationship.

Liebau's thought-provoking book should provide a starting point for a wider discussion about the role sexuality plays in our society and the ways in which young girls need to be protected from destructive ideas and images which, rather than freeing them from a sexually "repressive" paradigm, have forced them to define themselves in relation to a sexually obsessive paradigm.

[Katie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too much information! There are way more graphic examples in this book than I am comfortable with. I don't live under a rock, but a lot of the stuff Liebau describes I never would have sought out and had not known about until I read it in this book. Somebody pass the brain bleach, please.

Her points are mostly fair enough, but I think Wendy Shalit makes a better logical case, relies less on polemic, and is a better writer. I don't recommend this book to anyone unless you want to flip through something quickly to appall yourself with examples of how low pop culture can go.

[Anna · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've got a lot to say about this book!

Pros: Overall, I like the message of this book. On the most basic level, it is pro-abstinence and anti-teenage sex, both things I agree with. The book starts with a lot of statistics about sexual activity being prevalent in the adolescent population, and how some middle schools are even seeing related problems among their students.

A major part of Liebau's argument is that American culture is WAY too focused on sex (in her words - "a constant human fixation"), which I definitely agree with. I was surprised by the statistic that 70% of television shows contain sexual content or references! But yes, like the author, I have noticed a lot of sexual content on TV, in popular music, on the internet, in magazines, and in young adult fiction. (It seems like there's sex in almost every YA book I read!) Additionally, the majority of sexual content in the media doesn't talk about safe sex or possible consequences of sex. Liebau argues that the constant sexual messages of pop culture are "normalizing" teen sexual behavior, creating an environment where teens feel like they need to sexually experiment years before they otherwise would. According to the author, this leads to STDs, teen pregnancy (leading to either single parenting or abortion), socioeconomic problems (due to single/teen parents having fewer opportunities and having to rely on government welfare), and of course emotional problems, because most teenagers aren't mature enough to handle sexual relationships.

There's also a chapter on how fashion trends are now sexualizing girls even before their teenage years - this topic made me wonder about who's driving these trends. I would guess that a lot of it comes from celebrities (I cringe at some of the red-carpet fashions that seem dangerously close to nudity). I get that teens want to look like the people they admire. But on the other hand, I work at a university, and most if not all of the students I see are pretty covered up (okay, maybe some of this is the cold climate!). I think that by the time they reach adulthood, the average woman has figured out that comfortable clothing is better than trying to keep up with celebrity fashion trends.

Cons: I consider myself fairly prudish, but not as prudish as this author! She argues that sex should only be talked about in the context of "moral, ethical, and religion considerations," along with "traditional concepts of right and wrong," and therefore purely scientific/educational resources like WebMD shouldn't be available to teens. I want to argue back that first of all, not everyone has the same moral, ethical, and religious values, and since some teens will have sex anyway no matter what we tell them, I am really glad that we have nonjudgmental, unbiased, informative sex ed information online! As I once heard someone say, "The safest sex is reading about it." It seems like Liebau is advocating censoring any information that doesn't fit her worldview. But actually, teens (and everyone) need to develop their own values and critical thinking skills so that they can make their own judgments about things they read online.

There's a touch of homophobia in the book...LGBT people are not mentioned, except for a few references to girls identifying as lesbian or bisexual and kissing other girls, which is lumped together with other "undesirable" sexual behavior. I don't feel great about that. Regardless of gender, kissing and exploring one's orientation should be the least of this author's worries.

Even though it's not explicit, this book definitely has a conservative Christian vibe, which explains its implicit homophobia, and also its occasional jabs at feminism. The author seemed to waver between definitions of feminism, sometimes supporting it and sometimes opposing it. I think she could have done a better job at defining feminism and which parts of it she agrees with.

One thing I had a HUGE problem with is that even though the author purports to be pro-teenage girls, she is not as supportive of them as I would like. Every once in a while there will be hints of the idea that girls, and not boys, are responsible for making smart decisions. There's definitely a "boys will be boys" attitude, along with the idea that if women don't have premarital sex, it will somehow lure a good man to them, who will then be "rewarded" with marital sex. I really despise this view. It implies that men and boys are mainly interested in sex, and women and girls have to accommodate that interest in various ways. It even says that "almost any willing girl is good enough" for a teenage boy to have sex with. I don't think there's anything in this book about the problems of rape, sexual assault, and predatory in-person relationships, and it barely touches on online predators...it's assumed that only teen boys will pursue girls, who have to say "no," and somehow the boys will always respect the "no." Real life doesn't work that way, sadly. Near the end of the book, the author lists a few pro-abstinence organizations, at least one of which includes boys (yay!). At least that's something. I know this book is mainly about girls, but I think it could have done a lot better at supporting healthy sexual decisions for boys AND girls. The way it's currently written, it makes me wonder why men are appealing to women at all if all they want is sex.

My last, pettier complaint - the citations. There are OVER 50 PAGES of endnotes, and so many of them include URLs. I shudder to think of how many of those links must be dead by now. This is why you should use the Internet Archive to save webpages! Also, Liebau occasionally cites "personal observations" and "personal interviews" with unnamed teenage girls - I would have liked more context on who these girls were. There's no proof that she didn't just make them up.

Things to consider: This book was published in 2007, over a decade ago now. And a lot of the studies the author cites are quite a bit older than that. It would be interesting to see a new edition of this book with updated information. I've read that teenage sex has been steadily decreasing, which is great! (Though I'm not sure if Liebau's proposed ideas had anything to do with it.)

Another thing that really dates this book is its view of technology. Myspace, MTV, and perhaps even chat rooms are probably not very influential on teens anymore - I'm sure that smartphones, Facebook, YouTube, and dating apps are influencing teens and their relationships far more than anyone could foresee a decade ago. I'd be really interested to see studies on how these technologies are affecting today's teens (besides the obvious topic of sexting). One thing that hasn't changed, though, is the fact that pornography is easily available on the internet.

Liebau makes the argument that since we've dramatically decreased smoking and drunk driving in America over the past few decades, we should be able to do the same for teenage sexual behavior. I don't have my hopes up for this - though I would be pleasantly surprised if I start seeing billboards and PSAs advocating for abstinence. As I said earlier, different individuals and families have different values...sex isn't such a cut-and-dried topic as smoking and drunk driving are.

Final verdict: Overall, I loved what this book was arguing for, and it was easy to read. Even though there's an undercurrent of Christian conservatism, it's hardly preachy. But I have to knock off a star due to the occasional problematic ideas and wording.

[Alice Hiemstra · Rating 5 out of 5]

I started reading this book on a sample online for a research paper I am doing on relationship advice in popular magazines and how it affects our culture. It quickly turned into a paper on society's view on sex, because all of the relationship advice that was anywhere close to controversial had something to do with sex. People who say that the author thinks women who give out sex outside of commitment don't have any emotion or love in their decision obviously just disagree with the author's points of chastity and long to belittle her case. also, the reason the author doesn't talk of the pressures boys endure is because her purpose is to portray how girls exclusively are pressured. she is not undermining that guys have sex stresses too, but just not discussing it as it is not part of her topic. that said, i would like to say that her view that those who are 'prudes' are looked down upon is absolutely true. I am someone who is not having sex until i am married, and i am in high school. let me tell you, it isn't very fun when people think you are a 'prude' because you choose to do sex God's way. They instantly assume you are sheltered and just don't understand that sex is enjoyable. i know i will enjoy sex on my honeymoon; i think it will rock. but, those of us who do not participate in our sex happy society now are frowned upon. and those of you who think it isn't hard for us girls, you must not have experienced it yourself and should think before you say that the 'sluts' are the ones frowned upon more often. a visit to your local high school locker room will widen your gaze. I myself am not exclusively picked on thanks to my close friends who share similar views, but the pressure is real and the desired status quo for many of partying and having sex is there. i am surrounded by a world where short-shorts are a necessity to get guys to notice you and your 'first time' should happen your freshmen year. the author's points are not blown out of proportion; i am witnessing it firsthand, even at the small high school i attend.

[Nancy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was disappointed in this one. I wanted to like it - I think girls have gone off the deep end with overt sexuality. But while the book provided plenty of statistics that would lead us to believe girls are no happier, safer, more productive, or more successful as they become more aggressive and demanding sexually (not to mention more obvious), it didn't provide much in the way of answers. And it avoided the question of: so, if you're not going to have sex until marriage, what do you do from age 14 to age 30 or so?

[Jackie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I really wanted to learn something from this book and felt that it had a lot of potential. However, rather than educating and enlightening the reader, Platt Liebau uses the 250 pages to preach about what's wrong with America. The context is nothing new; we know that American culture is obsessed with sex and young girls are particularly at risk. Platt Liebau offers little by way of how to address the issue; she merely discusses the problem. I was very disappointed.

[Kristen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting but a little preachy. It is interesting to see how desensitized we become to images of sexuality in the media - and how this is negaitively affecting our children, who are internalizing it.

[Elizabeth Drake · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great overview of the aspects of culture and our society that has led to the free sex and underage sex that’s rampant in our culture & how it’s damaging to girls

[Nikki · Rating 1 out of 5]

Wanted to like and feel more informed, but it was just kinda spitting sad facts at the reader. I say skip.

[Shantaine · Rating 3 out of 5]

While the book is titled 'Prude', it's examples are FAR from it.
Liebau is shameless in her descriptions of sex and sexual acts devoid of personal relationships that are being portrayed in entertainment and popular culture aimed at young women. While sometimes hard to swallow, one cannot imagine what kind of parent would be allowing their child to be totally influenced by this new sexualized culture. And, unfortunately, Liebau only starts discussing parental involvement towards the end of the book. Surely, the more involved parents reading this book have already instilled in their daughters a sense of morality and dignity that Liebau describes, but then, this book seems to be aimed at the wrong consumer.
The bigger societal problem, which Liebau touches on are the "Cool Moms" who are completely passive in their daughter's decision making, or the non-existent parental figures (of which Liebau does NOT touch on). Teens and Tweens alike need boundaries and supervision, and when that's not provided, they begin engaging in elicit behavior.
"Cool Moms" either being too cowardly to discipline or limit their child's outer influences (or too immature themselves), end up being complicit in the destruction of their child's search for self-worth, not by finding it from positive, familial examples, but from what Hollywood deems important.
The non-existent parent, usually (but not always) from a lower socio-economic background, can be passively at fault. Either a result of substance abuse, or single-parenthood, a child is forced to make decisions for themselves - usually the wrong kind - as their only social guidance comes from the television and the poor values it puts forth.

While Liebau discusses that society can make the change, the consumer can make the change, the larger issue here is society itself.
Until the mainstream as a whole decides that this sexual "liberation" has gone too far, the denigration of women is here to stay.
But the more important factor should be the parent's involvement in what their child is being exposed to.

Unfortunately, this book is very dated. Even four years later the pop cultural references cited have already been surpassed by Lady Gaga, Glee, Jersey Shore, Adam Lambert, Ke$ha, Bachelor Pad, etc. And that Gossip Girl is now a television show, as well as a once popular book series.

Also, I noted that some of Liebau's references to certain events were incorrect, and some of her assertions were overly biased in order to allow her to make some instance over-the-top, given the amount of shock value she wanted to portray to the supposed ignorant parent reading her book.

This book would've been better if it focused as a more traditional study of the recent surge of sexually explicit influences exposed to young women, rather than a gross-out depiction of what is happening in pop culture, and a somewhat flimsy answer as to why girls are compelled to mimic it.
What happened to family role-models?
Why do these young women express no notion that they have the power to say "no"?

Maybe I'm just from a totally different generation, or perhaps I don't remember what it was like to want to fit in, but the risk factors involved in engaging in teenage sex seemed to outweigh even the smallest amount of popularity or stigma one would acquire having done so.

[Carmen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've had this book on my TBR for quite awhile, and I've finally managed to get to it. There's a lot of interesting an relevant points brought up here, a lot of which I agreed with - though other people might not really agree with some of it.

[Victoria Markunas · Rating 2 out of 5]

It had some interesting points, but it took me a long time to get through because of how much reiteration took place and it sounded like it was trying to blame girls for the own choices they make. As a women I believe our culture is super sexulaized, but what we do with that is our choice. Women should have the freedom they have now to do whatever they want as long as they have the knowledge to be safe about it. Don't blame it on magazines, celebrities, and movies when we are the ones who make the decision to have sex or not.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good book about a very important topic. The only thing I didn't like about this book is that it gave FAR too many graphic examples of the sex-obsessed culture that it's trying to decry. I think just about anyone who picks up this book is already more or less on the side of the argument that the author is trying to promote and doesn't need all of the details about the sexual content in movies, magazines, music, etc, that the author seems to find necessary to include. There's a reason why I didn't watch the movies or read the magazine examples that the author cites: I didn't want to know the content. Unfortunately, now I do. For that reason, I wouldn't really feel comfortable recommending this book to my friends. On the plus side, the author does cite and give references for several studies that are more interesting that the book itself.
Overall, the author does articulate a few good arguments, but should have spent less time on giving examples of how corrupt culture has become and spent more time on conclusions/consequences and solutions.

[Lexi · Rating 4 out of 5]

No doubt, this is NOT a fun read, but incredibly important for anyone with daughters! "Young women need to realize that their own behavior determines the quality of the guys they will attract. Sleazy behavior appeals to sleazy guys. It's important for girls to understand that there ARE find, wholesome guys who are looking for soemthing more than cheap thrills - and admire girls who dress modestly and behave with self-respect. For every "pig" out there, there's likewise a good, decent man who's hoping to find the woman of his dreams. And marry her."

The first half is a real downer... lots of stats and terrifying reality, but keep reading. There is a way to change this path we're on!

[Becki · Rating 2 out of 5]

my parents both recommended that I read this book because they felt that it was excellent, for all us who have daughters or hope to some day. I think maybe I went into it with the wrong mind set, or maybe I am just too sensitive, but the images and examples illustrating the point of how our culture is obsessed with sex and damaging women were too harsh and crude for me. I didn't actually finish it. I guess I feel like I don't need specific examples to know there is a problem although I agree 100% with the premise of the book.

[TheTyee.ca]

Carol Platt Liebau is proud to be a prude. In fact, "Proudly, A Prude," is the concluding chapter in her teen-sex-shockfest Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Damages Girls (and America, Too!). What sets Liebau, an attorney, political analyst and commentator, and self-professed "voice from the right," apart from the spate of other recent books decrying the ills of teen sexual exploration, is her unabashed conservatism and real desire to roll back the clock -- sometimes as far as previous centuries.

read more ...
http://thetyee.ca/Books/2008/01/14/Ne...

[Rachael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Smart, incisive and well documented, this book looks at the '90's and early 2000's and how the sexual saturation of our culture damages girls, women and men and boys.
I'd love to see it updated with new stats, as this edition is from 2007, but I'd recommend it to parents trying to get a grip on the culture in American schools and pop culture and how they can arm their children and themselves with information and guard against the heartbreak and other dangers falling for the culture at large can inflict on the unwary.

[Jessy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Super shocking. I would suggest anyone who has a daughter or young woman in their life to read this book. I never realized how sexual everything around us is. I've picked this book back up now that I am finished with "Angry Housewives", but I am having a rough time getting back into it. It is pretty much nothing but statistics. After a while, all the numbers lose meaning. Hopefully I can power through it and it will get better.

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

wow this one of my favorite books ...i never been soo into a book that catches my attention so much.
this book reminds me of a book i read last year called push about abuse ect...it teaches me how the world can be out there n how to react when something happends....im really interested in the genre realistics because i like to read things that are true n that happend or something that can show me how i can react when something happends

[Maggie · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wanted to like this, but the entire time I felt like it was touting religion and virginity. Which is great, but it succeeded in making me feel like just because I had sex at 18, that I am now a horribly depressed monster. While I DO agree that everything in television, magazines and pop culture are too sex-obsessed, I feel like this book didn't give us any answers on how to fix it, other than remaining celibate. Which, let's be honest here.... ain't never gonna happen!

[Casandra Hutchinson · Rating 4 out of 5]

While I strongly disagree with most of the hypotheses of the author, I do believe that American society is over-sexed. And, I believe it's very bad for our youth. This book is great food for thought.

[Casandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

While I strongly disagree with most of the hypotheses of the author, I do believe that American society is over-sexed. And, I believe it's very bad for our youth. This book is great food for thought.

[Tiffany Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic. Must read on our oversexualized culture and how it destroys our girls and changes them.