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Simpson Rowe was quick to say that only perpetrators are responsible for assault, but assertiveness and self-advocacy are crucial defensive skills.

Encouraging girls to explore sexuality within mutually caring, emotionally connected relationships is one thing; insisting on it is another.

Identify, I've learned, can be sliced many ways and there is gain with every loss.

I'd believed I could keep out the tales and the toys but had failed on both counts.

All girls over age 14 remove pubic hair. The only touching is to remove hair. That's grim.

Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure.

I found that in a perverse way our culture and parents are far more comfortable talking about girls' vicitimization than girls' sexual agency.

Leaving something unnamed makes it quite literally unspeakable: a void, an absence, a taboo.

Saying "yes" [to sexual activity] is a pretty low baseline for sexual experience and I wanted to write about what was happening to girls after "yes."

Children as young as twelve to eighteen months can recognize brands, it went on, and are "strongly influenced" by advertising and marketing. Yikes!

Sexualization is the performance of sexuality, the performance of sexiness. Girls are super good at that now.

But it is Bella, not the supernaturals she falls in with, who is the true horror show here, at least as a female role model.

I never expected, when I had a daughter, that one of my most important jobs would be to protect her childhood from becoming a marketers' land grab.

The point of creativity is to express and challenge yourself, to make meaning, to embrace your life.

As long as adults still avoid open discussion on sexuality, teens will inevitably seek information on today's electronic street corner.