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If you spend any amount of time doing media analysis, it__ clear that the most frenzied moral panic surrounding young women__ sexuality comes from the mainstream media, which loves to report about how promiscuous girls are, whether they__e acting up on spring break, getting caught topless on camera, or catching all kinds of STIs. Unsurprisingly, these types of articles and stories generally fail to mention that women are attending college at the highest rates in history, and that we__e the majority of undergraduate and master__ students. Well-educated and socially engaged women just don__ make for good headlines, it seems.
Jessica Valenti The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
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If you spend any amount of time doing media analysis, it__ clear that the most frenzied moral panic surrounding young women__ sexuality comes from the mainstream media, which loves to report about how promiscuous girls are, whether they__e acting up on spring break, getting caught topless on camera, or catching all kinds of STIs. Unsurprisingly, these types of articles and stories generally fail to mention that women are attending college at the highest rates in history, and that we__e the majority of undergraduate and master__ students. Well-educated and socially engaged women just don__ make for good headlines, it seems.
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The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women

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