Prude?

Last week, Captain Ed interviewed (scroll down for the podcast of the interview) logical lady Carol Platt Liebau about her new book "Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Hurts Young Women (and America, Too!)". Her Townhall column yesterday gives us a taste of what is in the book.

On “A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila,” both straight men and lesbians vie for Tila’s affections. To do so, they engage in a variety of sexually explicit activities features lewd behavior among the contestants, encouraged and applauded by Tila herself, including group sleepovers and raunchy rounds of “Truth or Dare.” It is the most popular show in its time period among people 18-34, and no doubt has many younger viewers.
Certainly most young people understand that what they’re watching is more than a little over the top. But seeing the behavior also normalizes it – and allows women like Tila to set standards for young people all across the United States. When the culture tells girls that sexual decision making comes down to nothing more than “if it feels good, do it,” they become pressured to conform to a sexy ideal that’s as unwholesome as it is difficult to attain.

This attitude is not just harming our daughters. As the parent of a adolescent boy, I can attest to that. It is hard to teach a young boy that treating girls as strictly a "sexual" object is a bad thing when the girls are sexualizing themselves!

As a parent (and a product of the beginnings of the feminist movement) it is imperative that we quit turning our girls into sexual objects and make them into self-reliant, proud young women who are valued for their contributions to society. Anything less should be unacceptable.