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March 29, 2007: Don't trash Elizabeth Wurtzel; we must admit she's right about AutoAdmit.
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March 27, 2007: In "Lust Cause," The Boston Herald covers the True Love Revolution at Harvard. Read more on the blog.
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March 20, 2007: In "Double Trouble," Judith Warner points out in the Times that when it comes to oversexualizing girls, we've given moms a free pass. We've forgotten "what it means to look and feel sexy with dignity," she writes. Read the discussion of Warner's important piece on the blog.
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March 14, 2007: The New York Times reports on college-supported pornographic magazines, and our own Eve Grubin says no, thanks.
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March 1, 2007: And isn't it about time? The Bratz backlash begins--in the UK. The Daily Mail's reports on "How major stores are encouraging little girls to dress like trashy dolls." Read more on the blog.
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Feb. 5, 2007: Miss Utah shocks the world, earns piles of supportive letters, for daring to wear a one-piece to the 2007 Miss America Pageant. She even made the top ten!
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January 25, 2007: Princeton's Anscombe Society is hosting an event on February 16-17th, called "Making Love Last: Finding Meaning in Sex and Romantic Relations." Register here
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December 31, 2006: Lawrence Downes pens a great piece in the New York Times on "Middle School Girls Gone Wild." Read our discussion of it on the blog.
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December 7, 2006: Alex and Brett Harris of the Rebelution launch a Modesty survey which collected over 160,000 responses. Stay tuned--results to be published on Valentine's Day, 2007.
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November 20, 2006: Shade Clothing wants to bring modesty to the little black dress, and make it a little less--little.
Read their press release or visit their site. |
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October 16, 2006: In "Halloween on Heels," Allison Glock remembers fondly the days when she was a pumpkin in college, and when all Halloween costumes were not "marital aids." |
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October 4, 2006: U Penn student Chloe Hurley says the sex bloggers are getting boring in "Why Smart Sex Has Gone Stagnant." Most hilarious line: "Baby, just because you sit at home in front of your laptop in your underwear and can slur out some hackneyed puns don't make you no Carrie Bradshaw." |
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September 25, 2006: Today's dolls are too provocative, says a recent survey of 1,010 moms. |
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August 8, 2006: Cleavage
Crackdown at an Arlington,
Texas school district. It's
gotten bad enough that, unfortunately,
our young males are looking
at more than their English
book, their speech book, their
science book, says school
board president Sherri Wade.
And it's kind of nice
to have something left to
the imagination. |
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July 14, 2006: The New
York Times reports that "slut"
may no longer be a dirty word;
young women are calling each
other 'slut' just as a how-do-you-do.
Is this a positive development?
Discuss on the blog. |
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June 11, 2006: A new
medical study reports
that as many of 41% of adolescent
girls have been threatened
or pressured by their partners
into . |
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April 25, 2006: We're sorry
to hear that Mona Charen was
sick, but as you can see by
her latest column, "Vulger
USA," everything
happens for a reason.
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March 3, 2006: Manolo the
Shoe Blogger sticks out his
neck to defend the notion
of appropriate dress. Read
more on the blog.
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March 2, 2006: Peggy Noonan
has two excellent articles
about our security
problem after Sept. 11th;
namely, that in our eagerness
not to do "racial profiling,"
we just end up harassing old
ladies and mothers with children.
The second article focuses
more on the assault
on modesty. |
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December 21, 2005: Lyn Mikel
Brown and Sharon Lamb take
a tour of the girl dolls on
the market, and pose a very
good question:
"When did pretty and
sexy get so confused?"
Check out the whole
article in the Boston
Globe.
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December 12th, 2005: Well,
it's not something we're reading,
but it is on the Web. It's
the latest release from Jewish
Impact Films: a short
film about "real beauty"
called "Inside
Out." If you've got
51 seconds--yes, that's exactly
how long it is--then you've
got enough time to watch it.
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Nov. 29, 2005: As reported
in the December issue of Psychology
of Women Quarterly, a
study showed that sexy
attire worn by women in
the workplace works against
them.
Read more on the blog.
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Nov 20, 2005: Clinical psychologist
Patricia Dalton has a fantastic
article in the Washington
Post called "What's
Wrong With This Outfit, Mom?"
Kudos to the Post for recognizing
that it's not the best
idea to let your daughter
"bypass girlhood."
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November 3, 2005: Caitlin
Flanagan has an excellent
review in the November 2005
Atlantic, deconstructing
a recent book which purports
to show why boys don't need
fathers. Guess what? They
actually do. In case you can't
get your hands on the Atlantic,
here is Flanagan's brilliant
final graph:
"The ramifications of
this new attitude are going
to be grave. Belittle men's
responsibilities to their
families, raise boys to believe
that fatherhood is not a worthy
aspiration, and the people
who will suffer are women
and children. For the past
forty years women ave been
insisting that they be able
to enjoy the same sexual freedoms
as men (You go, girl!),
and to become single mothers
by choice (ditto!).
Surprise, surprise: men have
been more than happy to comply.
Someday American women may
realize that the great achievement
of civilization wasn't Erica
Jong's zipless f--k of yesteryear.
It was convincing men that
they had an obligation to
contain their sexual energies
within marriage and to support—economically
and emotionally—the
children they created in that
marriage. You go, June
Cleaver! "
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October 19, 2005: Cute column
on the (alleged) trend towards
modesty in the fashion world,
from the Bozeman Daily
Chronicle: "I will
never forget the day this
summer when I was shopping
with my 18-year-old daughter
and she said, 'Not that shirt,
it's too short. No more belly
shirts.' 'Yes, finally!' I
thought, and did a little
dance in my head."
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October 16, 2005: A brave
Long Island principal, Kenneth
Hoagland, has cancelled the
prom at Kellenberg Memorial
High School. He was "willing
to sponsor a prom, but not
an orgy." On CNN.com
you can read about his students
putting down $10,000 to rent
a party house in the Hamptons,
and the father who complained,
"I don't think they have
a right to judge what goes
on after the prom."
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October 1, 2005: "When
it comes to sex, Princeton
group advocates waiting,"
by Rebecca Santana of the
Associated Press. Kudos to
students at Princeton for
starting the first
ever Ivy League group
that tells students it's OK
not to have premarital
sex.
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September 1, 2005: GQ has
a fascinating interview
with the Italian designer
Miuccia Prada. Being Italian,
Prada gets away with saying
things an American could never
say so directly, such as:
"The more [women] dress
for sex, the less they will
have love or sex" and
"With women, the more
unhappy they are, the more
undressed they are."
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"It's, Like, So Totally
Cool, or Whatever," by
Meghan Cox Gurdon, in
the August 19, 2005 Wall
Street Journal. A fascinating
article details the surprising
shallowness of Girls Life,
the official magazine of the
Girl Scouts of America.
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"A Neo-Feminist's View
of Abstinence," by Elizabeth
Sandoval, in
USA TODAY, August 18
2005. A self-described "middle-of-the-road
32-year-old who likes tattoos
and loud music" defends
her idea
of feminism, or neo-feminism:
"One who respects her
body so
much that she won't allow
it to be used as someone's
playground."
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"Adolescent
Virginity Pledges and Risky
Sexual Behaviors," by Robert
Rector and Kirk A. Johnson,
Ph.D., in a conference paper
delivered at HHS, June 14, 2005:
Explains how recent studies
about virginity pledgers have
distorted Add Health data, and
why in fact virginity pledgers
are at a lower risk for STDs
relative to non-pledgers. |
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"A Town's
Struggle in the Culture War,"
The New York Times, June
2, 2005: 16-year-old Brittany
Hunsicker goes to her school
board and gets a "junky" young
adult novel pulled from her
high school curriculum. |
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"The Art of Modesty," Seventeen
Magazine, June 2004: 20-year-old
"Maggie" explains why she
has stuck to her style and
values.
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"What
Stylish Young Women Are Wearing:
More," Ruth LaFerla, The
New York Times, June 8,
2004: Teens explain the new
trend of not looking like Britney
Spears. |
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"R-rated Movies Don't Sell,"
WorldNetDaily.com, March,
26, 2004: Why movies with
explicit sex and nudity don't
sell.
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