Just Talking

How do we define sexuality? Gender? Pleasure? Ten years after Peggy Orenstein's seminal Girls & Sex was published, young people's sexual experiences have been distorted by deepfakes, extreme pornography and increasing political polarisation. In this brave new world, it may come as no surprise that for the young women of today sex and relationships are more fraught than ever.Reporting from the front lines of the sexual landscape, Peggy Orenstein draws on hundreds of interviews with young women to examine their generation's reluctance to engage with men and the cynical, violent or simply boring encounters that result when they do. With her characteristic intimacy and urgency, Peggy's thought-provoking research ultimately comes down to one thing: young women just want more.PRAISE FOR PEGGY ORENSTEIN:'If you're going to talk about women in the 21st century, you MUST read Peggy Orenstein's Girls & Sex' Caitlin Moran'Girls & Sex should be mandatory for anyone who cares about the present and future cultural landscape for girls, women, humans' Rashida Jones'Orenstein is such a breezy, funny, writer, it's easy to forget she's an important thinker too' People