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marie_gg's review against another edition
4.0
http://mariesbookgarden.blogspot.com/2017/01/girls-sex-navigating-complicated-new.html
This is such an important book, and it opened my eyes to the kinds of messages our young people are getting about body image and sexuality. It's also made me realize I need to do some education with my own three young men about sex. Like for example: why a blow job, which appears to be freely given nowadays in lieu of intercourse, is only benefiting the man and does nothing for the woman's pleasure. And why foreplay is important.
Some criticisms: lack of diversity in the girls she spoke to, and where are the boys' perspectives? Also, many have criticized Orenstein for not citing her sources and identifying what is her opinion and what is backed up by science or research.
Important work, and I'm hoping it's just the beginning of more research into female sexuality in these times.
This is such an important book, and it opened my eyes to the kinds of messages our young people are getting about body image and sexuality. It's also made me realize I need to do some education with my own three young men about sex. Like for example: why a blow job, which appears to be freely given nowadays in lieu of intercourse, is only benefiting the man and does nothing for the woman's pleasure. And why foreplay is important.
Some criticisms: lack of diversity in the girls she spoke to, and where are the boys' perspectives? Also, many have criticized Orenstein for not citing her sources and identifying what is her opinion and what is backed up by science or research.
Important work, and I'm hoping it's just the beginning of more research into female sexuality in these times.
pixe1's review against another edition
2.0
Some interesting perspectives, but I ultimately finished feeling disappointed. Too often this felt like "boomer studies Gen Z attitudes towards sex", and so all of her accompanying biases came with the stats. Sometimes she seemed a lot more conscious of those biases than other times. Also: women in college who are 19, 21 are not girls. They are women. And calling them girls throughout bothered me.
2catmom's review against another edition
5.0
With a daughter, this is like a horror story. the dark side of growing up that i was ignorant too. Now i know, and will teach my children to respect each other's body, sex is for mutual pleasure (not only guy's pleasure) and girls need to be comfortable with own body. Horrifying but much needed reading, since internet has speed up adulthood yet made us all so unprepared.
mayagb37's review against another edition
5.0
This was an incredible book and definitely one of my new absolute favorites. An excellent portrayal of the current controversies and narratives surrounding girls and sex, and really insightful. I will be rereading in the near future, and hopefully obtaining a copy of "Boys and Sex" soon. Something that was really exciting was seeing the number of sociology researchers referenced in the book -- gives me hope that I made the right choice with my new major! I would love to be involved in research projects such as this one in the future.
quercus707's review against another edition
4.0
Excellent, must-read book if you have young girls in your life. They need us to talk to them, to listen to them, to be honest with them.
megthegrand's review against another edition
5.0
This is a book for everyone. It will teach you things you don't know, or wish you had known, or how to have conversations with those around you. I wish I could send this back in time to teenage me, or even to college me, with personal notes written in the margins - "It's not just you!" It was heartbreaking, and sometimes extremely difficult, to read because of some of the subject matter. Sometimes I stopped and read it out loud to my partner and we spent hours talking about it. It fueled my conversations and thoughts, and I recommend this to anyone, of any background, and I hope it fuels their conversations, too.
lidiaslibrary's review against another edition
i felt like a 20th century woman reading this