Status Updates From The Purity Myth: How Americ...

“When youth is the most desirable sexual characteristic and girls are the most desirable sexual beings, all of us suffer”

Sadly still relevant almost 20 years later

More romance authors need to read this

“Trusting women means also trusting them to find their way. This isn’t to say, of course, that I think women’s sexual choices are intrinsically “empowered” or “feminist.” I just believe that in a world that values women so little, and so specifically for their sexuality, we should be giving them the benefit of the doubt. Because in this kind of hostile culture, trusting women is a radical act.”