Occupation: Author Birth: November 22, 1961
Sexualization is imposed from the outside as opposed to sexuality, an understanding of the body's responses and desires and ability to communicate th….
Effectively, it makes the greasepaint permanent, blurring the lines not only between public and private but also between the authentic and contrived ….
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….
American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture’s emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls’ vulnerability to the pitfalls ….
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 ….
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….
Saying "yes" [to sexual activity] is a pretty low baseline for sexual experience and I wanted to write about what was happening to girls after "yes.".
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….
Mothers are doing a better job talking about risk, danger, reproduction, consent, unwanted pregnancy. We're not talking about how to balance the risk….
Girls are freer to express their femininity and their sexuality and we're not tamping that down or denying it anymore. But it ends up putting them, f….
The point of creativity is to express and challenge yourself, to make meaning, to embrace your life..
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..