Female Chauvinist Pigs

I have mentioned this book before: It is one I think that every young woman and young man should read. Here are a few quotes from this book. ( The book is available for loan through the SHineSA library)

" If you process this information through the average adolescent mental computer, you end up with a printout that reads something like this: Girls have to be hot. Girls who aren't hot probably need breast implants. Once a girl is hot, she should be as close to naked as possible all the time. Guys should like it. Don't have sex"

"Rather than only telling teens why they shouldn't have sex, perhaps we also ought to be teaching them why they should. We are doing little to help them differentiate thier sexual desires from thier desire for attention...................if we are bold enough to cross that boundry to tell young people not to have intercourse, surely, while we are at it, it is appropriate - it is our obligation - to talk to them about how to understand and cope with and enjoy thier sexuality. Sex is different from drugs; we can't tell them just to say no and leave it at that. Sexuality isn't something they can opt out of."