When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.
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Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.
Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.
Many young people, many children, are being abused, being put down, being bullied because of their sexual orientation.
Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.
What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
We've fallen down on our responsibility to our children by somehow creating this world where they're surrounded by images of sexuality; and yet, we as adults struggle to talk to kids honestly about sex, the rules of dignity and consent.
I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance.
Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.
I think there is a point in every teenager's life where they are forced to come into themselves.
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