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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just saw the book discussed on PBS, but I didn't get the author's point, unless she's just complaining.

What is she recommending?[/quote]

Here's another interview: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/interrogation/2016/04/an_interview_with_peggy_orenstein_author_of_girls_and_sex_navigating_the.html

And no, she's not "just complaining".[/quote]

Quoting Orenstein from the link:

[quote]That I think is cultural, and it’s true that in cultures that prioritize female orgasms, and there are some out there, that girls and women do have orgasms readily and easily. I think that what we do in our culture is we completely erase, well, I call it the psychological cliterodectomy. We erase female pleasure. From the time babies are born, we name all the parts on little boys. [Anything] between the navel and the knees on girls, people do not name. I’ve even been told, somebody told me after the book came out, that it’s actually a problem in pursuing charges in sexual abuse that girls don’t have a name there, so they can’t speak of it. We never say “vulva,” we never say “clitoris.”

It’s not really that much of a surprise that fewer than one-half of girls 14 to 17 have ever masturbated, and then they go into a partnered experience, and we think that they’re going to be able to have a voice or advocate for themselves or have a sense of what their own pleasure is. It’s completely unrealistic, and it puts girls not only at a disadvantage in terms of having a satisfying sexual experience but also just having an equal relationship.[/quote][/quote]
Why should girls 14 to 17 want to 'report' what they do sexually?

These endless surveys are ridiculous. The kids laugh about them, fyi.[/quote]

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