Girls & Sex

Navigating the Complicated New Landscape

By: Peggy Orenstein

Narrated by: Peggy Orenstein

The author of the New York Times bestseller Cinderella Ate My Daughter offers a clear-eyed picture of the new sexual landscape girls face in the post-princess stage—high school through college—and reveals how they are negotiating it.

A generation gap has emerged between parents and their girls. Even in this age of helicopter parenting, the mothers and fathers of tomorrow’s women have little idea what their daughters are up to sexually or how they feel about it. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over seventy young women and a wide range of psychologists, academics, and experts, renowned journalist Peggy Orenstein goes where most others fear to tread, pulling back the curtain on the hidden truths, hard lessons, and important possibilities of girls’ sex lives in the modern world.

While the media has focused—often to sensational effect—on the rise of casual sex and the prevalence of rape on campus, in Girls and Sex Peggy Orenstein brings much more to the table. She examines the ways in which porn and all its sexual myths have seeped into young people’s lives; what it means to be the “the perfect slut” and why many girls scorn virginity; the complicated terrain of hookup culture and the unfortunate realities surrounding assault. In Orenstein’s hands these issues are never reduced to simplistic “truths;” rather, her powerful reporting opens up a dialogue on a potent, often silent, subtext of American life today—giving readers comprehensive and in-depth information with which to understand, and navigate, this complicated new world.

A must listen for any parent

enlightening understanding of what is going on with young women today if you know anyone in college or about to go into college please share this book with them

Must read for all parents

This book was powerful to read as a 30 something woman who has experienced many of the situations described within. Even more powerful was the sense of duty I was left Witt to make sure my children understand sex in a completely different way than is taught and shown in current sex ed classes, media and porn. I could not recommend this book more highly and really think it should be required reading for all middle school or high schoolers

Must read for all parents and everyone!

This book is very enlightening and should be mandatory for all adults and teens to read/listen to. It really shows you how messed up sexual norms are for both men and women. The author has done a fantastic job and interviewed so many women for this book.

Great Book For Any Parents

This is the book you. need when your kids are ten years of age or older. Valuable information on the hook up culture, and how teens view current social sex issues. Great book, never list interest.

Informative on the outlook of women in sex.

I learned a new perspective on women's sexuality and sexual drive. It was informative and helpful.