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| Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Damages Girls (and America, Too!) | 
 enlarge | Author: Carol Platt Liebau
Publisher: Center Street
Category: Book
List Price: $22.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 95217
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 1599956837
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.7083520973
EAN: 9781599956831
ASIN: 1599956837
Publication Date: November 2, 2007
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Product Description
Political analyst and commentator Carol Platt Liebau takes a hard look at the pervasiveness of sex in today's culture and the havoc it wreaks on young people.
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 I was hoping for more May 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was packed full of statistics but we already knew most of this stuff by common sense. I would have like more solutions. I would have like more ways to help young girls. I am a school teacher and I would like to know how I can protect and bring the future up as best I can.
I was disappointed.
 Prude: April 30, 2008
An excellent albeit frightening book. Should be read by every parent of a teen age, or soon to be teen age girl.Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Damages Girls (and America, Too!)
 And another one,,, March 31, 2008
2 out of 12 found this review helpful
In the end, this book is just another conservative view of the terrible, terrible impact of sexuality on teenagers. The dogma that teenage pregnancies, educational failure, and mental disruptions are caused by over-sexualization of the youth is upheld and strict parental control is proposed.
A look at the sexually by far more liberal Europe with thorough sexual education at high school level including correct use of condoms and risk analysis of sexual practices, which results in by far smaller rates of teenage pregnancies, less abuse of antidepressants, and smaller hiv-infection rates, indicates that demonization of teenage sexuality, outrage about belly-button piercings and mini skirts, and glorification of abstinence only as done in this book are not the cure but the cause of most teenage problems.
 Worthwhile for parents March 31, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Prude" is a great book for parents. I must say that my eyes were opened to some things I wasn't aware of, and knowledge is power, right? I would say, however, that if you have teenagers in your home, be careful about letting them read this book. It may give them new ideas of ways to be bad, or they may find the author's explicitness titillating. I did think she took some of her ideas a bit too far, but then perhaps I've just been tainted by our wicked society.
If you consider yourself "conservative" and wish our society would reign back a bit, you will probably appreciate the author's point of view. She demonstrates how our society has become overly sexualized, but also gives us hope that the pendulum may be starting to swing the other way. Overall, very beneficial, especially for parents.
Amazing Facts about the stone cold truth March 6, 2008
Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Damages Girls (and America, Too!)
Never in my short life have I been so disgusted and shocked!!! Never before have I relized that I and everyone I love or care about, is being marketed to by FOUL and CORRUPT Corroporations. If you Have a daughter,neice,sister,or friend that is around the age of 17 or 18 Buy this book for them if not for your self. This book presents you with HARD BITTER truths about America and the times we live in. I say this kept me hitting the pages long after bed time , with its haunting details about our society and it's toxic effect on Young girls in our society....
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