We Need To Let Girls Know Their Bodies Are Meant To Feel Good

Maskot/Maskot/Getty ImagesWhen Peggy Orenstein traveled the country talking with teen girls for her groundbreaking 2017 book, Girls & Sex, she met a generation of young women focused on their partner’s pleasure and out of touch with their own. One of the main reasons for this, Orenstein concluded, is that the way we talk to girls about sex is almost exclusively focused on safety. Our completely appropriate and necessary focus on consent, coupled with our culture’s discomfort in talking openly about sex and intimacy, has sent girls the message that the best-case scenario for when you become