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What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl's Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety
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Jaclyn Friedman, who co-edited the anthology Yes Means Yes, offers a practical handbook for young women trying to make sense of a culture that sends them contradictory signals about sex. She shows how the messages girls absorb about attractiveness, desire and reputation can pull them in opposite directions, and how many of the dangers they are warned about are exaggerated.
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Friedman examines the double standards that punish women both for being sexual and for not being sexual enough. She argues that real safety comes from understanding facts rather than acting on fear, and she urges readers to question the lessons they absorbed growing up so they can work out a sexuality that is truly their own.
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