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 -….

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 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..

I never expected, when I had a daughter, that one of my most important jobs would be to protect her childhood from becoming a marketers' land grab..

Mothers are doing a better job talking about risk, danger, reproduction, consent, unwanted pregnancy. We're not talking about how to balance the risk….

Effectively, it makes the greasepaint permanent, blurring the lines not only between public and private but also between the authentic and contrived ….

The point of creativity is to express and challenge yourself, to make meaning, to embrace your life..

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.".

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 ….

American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture’s emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls’ vulnerability to the pitfalls ….

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..

Sexualization is the performance of sexuality, the performance of sexiness. Girls are super good at that now..

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….

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….

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….

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..

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….

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….

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..