Occupation: Author Birth: November 22, 1961
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….
Girls would say: "I have a boyfriend for that." So in addition to putting their pleasure literally into someone else's hands - an inept teenage boy -….
I had a lot of girls ask me whether it was weird that they didn't make a lot of noise during sex. I would get so irritated that they had learned this..
For years we've used the bases analogy - with intercourse being the "ultimate sex" even though that's probably not going to feel good to girls. That ….
A lot of what happens in consensual encounters and in the way we talk to both girls and boys about sex creates a medium in which assault flourishes..
I asked a high school girl about unreciprocated oral sex and said, "What if guys were asking you to get them a glass of water and never offered to yo….
We continue to think of virginity as first intercourse. That ends up minimizing and marginalizing other things kids are engaged in, like oral sex. An….
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….
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….
I found that in a perverse way our culture and parents are far more comfortable talking about girls' vicitimization than girls' sexual agency..
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….
All girls over age 14 remove pubic hair. The only touching is to remove hair. That's grim..
There is a way hook ups are serving young women. And it was important for me to always talk about how behaviours were serving girls, not just making ….
Sexualization is the performance of sexuality, the performance of sexiness. Girls are super good at that now..
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….
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….
We're afraid if girls find out sex is pleasurable they'll stop being gatekeepers, they'll go out and have sex..
But it is Bella, not the supernaturals she falls in with, who is the true horror show here, at least as a female role model..
Marketing to girls constantly presents a hypersexualized idea of girls; they're expected to appear sexy but be cut off from their sexuality..
Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure..
The point of creativity is to express and challenge yourself, to make meaning, to embrace your life..