The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the….

All girls over age 14 remove pubic hair. The only touching is to remove hair. That's grim..

My kind of nightmare quote is from Deborah Tolman, who does research on girls and desire and is, I think, brilliant. She told me that by the time gir….

It's particularly important as parents in our conversations with our daughters and our sons to consider ideas intimate justice when we talk about and….

There is only one princess in the Disney tales, one girl who gets to be exalted. Princesses may confide in a sympathetic mouse or teacup, but they do….

I'll tell you what is insidious about the Disney Princess, besides the fact that if you look into their merchandise, the 26,000 items, you're always ….

One of the challenges is to create an equally positive, satisfying sense of femininity and feminine identity in a different way so that there are thi….

Not that long ago, the idea of feeding your kid with organic fruit and vegetables or paying attention to sustainability or any of that - that was ver….

Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure..

It's not that pink is intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow, and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeat….

We're afraid if girls find out sex is pleasurable they'll stop being gatekeepers, they'll go out and have sex..

Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn't, but I wanted the decision to be a choice, not a mandate. Last time I checked, childlessness was only suppose….

I'm watching my own daughter grow up. I see this overt sexual culture coming at her like a Mack truck. She's in seventh grade..

I talked to a junior in college, and she was fed up. She said, "I'm not doing other girls any favours by faking orgasms and not calling out guys when….

And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, preciou….

Sex-ed courses look at girl's internal parts: for boys it's about ejaculation, erection and wet dreams; for girls, it's periods and unwanted pregnanc….

Girls are removing pubic hair before fully having it. They would say I feel cleaner, it's for me, but then they'd say if a boy saw pubic hair down th….

While I completely disagree with the "purity" concept, it was the only place I saw fathers talking to girls about their expectations and attitudes to….

I found that in a perverse way our culture and parents are far more comfortable talking about girls' vicitimization than girls' sexual agency..

Parents tend to name all of baby boys' body parts, but with girls they go from belly button to knees with this void in the middle. That doesn't chang….

Sexualization is imposed from the outside as opposed to sexuality, an understanding of the body's responses and desires and ability to communicate th….