On whether kids are having more sex at a younger age, and the prevalence of oral sex Very few girls explore, there's no self-knowledge, and then they go into their sexual experiences and we expect them to be able to have some sense of entitlement, some sense of knowledge, to be able to assert themselves, to have some sense of equality, and it's just not realistic that that's going to happen. Then they go into puberty education class, and girls have periods and unwanted pregnancy, and you see only the inside anatomy - that thing that looks like a steer head, with the ovaries and everything - and then it grays out between the legs, so we never talk about the vulva, we never talk about the clitoris.
But with girls, there's this sort of blank space - it's right from navel to knees, and not naming something makes it quite literally unspeakable. For boys, they'll say, "Here's your nose, here's your shoulders, here's your waist, here's your pee pee," whatever. Parents don't tend to name their infant baby's genitals if they're girls. On the silence surrounding girls' genitals
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