"Girls and Sex" Author on Diane Rehm Show

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No one ever said anything about instructing! Simple validation that it's normal and healthy was all that was said. You all think such validation from a mother is worthless?

Well, I will have to read the book. Because I don't think that "By the way, the clitoris is a major pleasure zone, which you may have discovered for yourself while masturbating, which is healthy and normal if you want to do that" , out of the blue, would be very validating. In fact, I'd pick quite a different adjective for it. So obviously something has been lost in translation from book to NPR to DCUM.

Actually, I think you're on the right track, PP. This sentence for most moms would be a breakthrough. The hostility by some posters towards the OP just goes to show how these topics strike a nerve with many of the prudish women and mothers who post here: women whose mothers failed to adequately empower them to understand and take control of their own sexuality and in turn are now failing their own daughters. Why are these subjects so difficult for so many of you?

Lol! I can't stop thinking about you as your daughter's maturation Sherpa!

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If you do have that talk with her, lighten the mood by starting with "As your mother and self appointed masturbation Sherpa..."

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Anonymous wrote:PP: who are you to question the scientific methods Orenstein die (or perhaps did not) use?

If I had been given an anonymous survey at 14 in a private environment to read and answer it, I would have 100% provided honest information.

Who knows in what kind of environment these girls were surveyed about their sexual activities? I don't. Does anyone? What was told to them before hand? Any discussions first? What was said by the adult(s)? What was their relationship with the girls?

....not reading the book.