Peggy Orenstein's Girls And Sex

Sex has a major impact on everyday lives. We are constantly seeing it in movies and television, hearing about it in passing in the school hallways, and viewing posts about it on social media. The average teenager is exposed to nearly 14,000 references to sex each year on television alone. More often than a person might think, sex impacts the decisions and thought processes of every single person. People crave sex. People think about sex a lot. People hear a lot about sex. People discuss sex rather often. In Peggy Orenstein’s “Girls & Sex”, the author discusses the issues of sexuality, types of sex, peer pressure, wanted vs. unwanted sex, body image and their impacts on people, specifically girls. But what really is sex? Peggy Orenstein does

For the modern generation, oral sex is not a big deal. Most teenagers believe that oral sex is much safer because they cannot before pregnant or end up with a sexually transmitted disease or infection. By age eighteen, two thirds of teenagers have had oral sex. Seventy percent of teens believe that oral sex is not sex. Some girls interviewed in this book even admitted to having/giving oral sex simply because they felt in control. Guys would beg girls for it, so they would give in because they knew that they were able to have that power over guys. Oftentimes girls did not want to be having oral sex because of the actual pleasure involved with it, but rather because they liked to know that they were wanted and needed by a boy.
One point held strong throughout this whole book - girls are sexualized much more than boys are. I cannot tell you how many times I have see a little penis drawn onto a school wall, desk, or locker. Boys joke around about their genitalia frequently. As for girls, I cannot recall a single time when I saw a girl sketch a vagina onto a desk, or make some slick comment about her genitalia. Many girls are unhappy with their vaginas and feel that they are ugly or that they will be embarrassed if a guy were to see it. This affects sex for girls; if a girl is unhappy with her “down there”, she will feel unhappy during