Love, Dating and Sex: What Teens Want to Know

Rating:
Summary: Biased
Review: This seemingly innocuous book still graces the shelves of my church library, much to my dismay. I picked it up when I was 11 and found it fundamentally biased. Ostensibly addressed to both women and men, it placed the responsibility of a sexually pure life entirely on the shoulders of women, using incentives such as keeping her reputation sound and not losing her boyfriend because he might think she's a slut if they sleep together. He also encourages men to go as far as they want with a woman, promoting it as a way to find out how easy she really is. In the last sections of the book he even admits his bias, doesn't even try to hide or excuse it. I would never give this book to one of my children. It's an amazing example of everything that's wrong with gender conceptions in America today.

Rating:
Summary: Biased
Review: This seemingly innocuous book still graces the shelves of my church library, much to my dismay. I picked it up when I was 11 and found it fundamentally biased. Ostensibly addressed to both women and men, it placed the responsibility of a sexually pure life entirely on the shoulders of women, using incentives such as keeping her reputation sound and not losing her boyfriend because he might think she's a slut if they sleep together. He also encourages men to go as far as they want with a woman, promoting it as a way to find out how easy she really is. In the last sections of the book he even admits his bias, doesn't even try to hide or excuse it. I would never give this book to one of my children. It's an amazing example of everything that's wrong with gender conceptions in America today.