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The writer of the New York Times best retailer Cinderella Ate My Little princess offers a clear-eyed picture of the new erotic landscape women face in the postprincess stage - high school through college or university - and unveils that they are negotiating it. A generation gap has surfaced between parents and their women. Even in this era of helicopter parenting, the mothers and fathers of tomorrow's women have little idea what their daughters are up to sexually or that they experience it. Pulling on in-depth interviews with over 70 young women and a wide range of psychologists, academics, and experts, renowned journalist Peggy Orenstein will go where most others fear to tread, pulling back the window curtain on the concealed truths, hard lessons, and important likelihood of girls' sex lives in today's world. While the media has focused - often to sensational result - increasing of casual sex and the prevalence of rape on campus, in Women and Love-making Peggy Orenstein brings a lot more to the table. She examines the ways that porn and everything its sexual misconceptions have seeped into young people's lives; what this means to be the "the perfect slut" and why many women scorn virginity; the complicated terrain of hookup culture; and the regrettable realities encircling assault. In Orenstein's hands these issues are never reduced to simplistic "truths"; rather, her powerful reporting opens up a dialogue over a potent, often silent subtext of American life today, presenting listeners extensive and in-depth information with which to comprehend and get around this complicated new world.
