All girls over age 14 remove pubic hair. The only touching is to remove hair. That's grim. — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
We're afraid if girls find out sex is pleasurable they'll stop being gatekeepers, they'll go out and have sex. — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Parents tend to name all of baby boys' body parts, but with girls they go from belly button to knees with this… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Saying "yes" [to sexual activity] is a pretty low baseline for sexual experience and I wanted to write about what was happening… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Marketing to girls constantly presents a hypersexualized idea of girls; they're expected to appear sexy but be cut off from their sexuality. — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
There is a way hook ups are serving young women. And it was important for me to always talk about how behaviours… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Girls are removing pubic hair before fully having it. They would say I feel cleaner, it's for me, but then they'd say… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
A lot of what happens in consensual encounters and in the way we talk to both girls and boys about sex creates… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
While I completely disagree with the "purity" concept, it was the only place I saw fathers talking to girls about their expectations… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
It's not that pink is intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow, and, though it may celebrate… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Girls would say: "I have a boyfriend for that." So in addition to putting their pleasure literally into someone else's hands -… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
I talked to a junior in college, and she was fed up. She said, "I'm not doing other girls any favours by… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture’s emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls’ vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents:… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
We continue to think of virginity as first intercourse. That ends up minimizing and marginalizing other things kids are engaged in, like… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Intimate justice touches on ideas of gender inequity, violence, bodily integrity, physical and mental health. I don't expect a 15-year-old girl to… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
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… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Girls are freer to express their femininity and their sexuality and we're not tamping that down or denying it anymore. But it… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
There is only one princess in the Disney tales, one girl who gets to be exalted. Princesses may confide in a sympathetic… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what is insidious about the Disney Princess, besides the fact that if you look into their merchandise, the 26,000… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Sexualization is the performance of sexuality, the performance of sexiness. Girls are super good at that now. — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
I found that in a perverse way our culture and parents are far more comfortable talking about girls' vicitimization than girls' sexual… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
I had a lot of girls ask me whether it was weird that they didn't make a lot of noise during sex.… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
My kind of nightmare quote is from Deborah Tolman, who does research on girls and desire and is, I think, brilliant. She… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
For years we've used the bases analogy - with intercourse being the "ultimate sex" even though that's probably not going to feel… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
I asked a high school girl about unreciprocated oral sex and said, "What if guys were asking you to get them a… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
A lot of what happens in consensual encounters and in the way we talk to both girls and boys about sex creates a medium… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Parents tend to name all of baby boys' body parts, but with girls they go from belly button to knees with this void in… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Mothers are doing a better job talking about risk, danger, reproduction, consent, unwanted pregnancy. We're not talking about how to balance the risks and… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
There is only one princess in the Disney tales, one girl who gets to be exalted. Princesses may confide in a sympathetic mouse or… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Saying "yes" [to sexual activity] is a pretty low baseline for sexual experience and I wanted to write about what was happening to girls… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
All girls over age 14 remove pubic hair. The only touching is to remove hair. That's grim. — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
But it is Bella, not the supernaturals she falls in with, who is the true horror show here, at least as a female role… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
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 pregnancy. We… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
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… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
“Identify, I've learned, can be sliced many ways and there is gain with every loss.” — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
“The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
“That said, pointing out inaccurate or unrealistic portrayals of women to younger grade school children-ages five to eight-does seem to be effective, when done… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
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