Wednesday, October 17, 2012

If It’s Not a Secret, It’s Not Safe: Girls, Boys and the Pleasure Paradox [Genderal Interest]

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The expectation that young women should be "sexy, but not sexual" –- or the Paris Paradox — isn't new. As the annual round of not-entirely-unjustified complaining about girls' Halloween costumes begins once more, the most popular solution seems to be one of the least helpful: urging young women to put their sexuality in temporary cold storage. If you want to be safe, we tell our girls, keep your desires (which we'd rather pretend you don't have in the first

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