The Real Truth About Teens and Sex: From Hooking Up to Friends with Benefits -- What Teens Are Thinking, Doing, andTalking About, and How to Help Them Make Smart Choices - Hardcover

Weill, Sabrina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039953198X ISBN 13: 9780399531989

Publisher: Perigee Trade, 2005

Synopsis

The former editor-in-chief of Seventeen magazine draws on hundreds of letters, e-mails, interviews, and a nationwide survey to provide a revealing look at teens and sex, covering such topics as virginity, celibacy, the role of the media, birth control, sexually transmitted diseases, peer pressure, sex education, and the latest trends.

About this title

About the Author:

Sabrina Weill has served as editor-in-chief, editor, and Sex and Body editor at Seventeen, as well as founding executive editor of CosmoGIRL! and editor of Scholastic's teen health magazine Choices. She is also the author of The Seventeen Guide to Sex and Your Body and We're Not Monsters: Teens Speak Out About Teens in Trouble.

From Publishers Weekly:

Hooking up: two teenagers meeting at the mall, or having drunken sex at a party shortly after meeting for the first time? Both, actually. And the central activity at a "chicken party" couldn't be performed by anything with a beak. Weill, former editor of Seventeen, seeks to demystify these and other steamy topics in her third book on teens and sex. Writing for parents and educators, Weill preaches communication and education as keys to staving off unwanted pregnancies, health problems and other pitfalls of becoming prematurely sexually active. Her advice is practical, but the suggested dialogues she provides can come off as Pollyanna. ("I want you to promise me you won't fool around with someone when either you or the guy or the girl have been drinking.") Peppered with survey and sexual health factoids-42 percent of 15-year-olds know someone who's had sex at home while their parents were in the house, and 29 percent of 12 - 17-year-olds think that someone who does everything but have sex is not a virgin-parents looking for insight into what goes on in their kids' beds can find plenty of answers here, though some may be hesitant to take a magazine editor's advice.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Perigee Trade
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 039953198X
• ISBN 13: 9780399531989
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240