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The author of the groundbreaking work Slut! explores the phenomenon of slut-shaming in the age of sexting, tweeting, and liking. She shows that the sexual double standard is more dangerous than ever before and offers wisdom and strategies for alleviating its destructive effects on young womens lives.Young women are encouraged to express themselves sexually. Yet when they do, they are derided as sluts. Caught in a double bind of mixed sexual messages, young women are confused. To fulfill the contradictory roles of being sexy but not slutty, they create an experienced identity on social media-even if they are not sexually activewhile ironically referring to themselves and their friends as sluts.But this strategy can become a weapon used against young women in the hands of peers who circulate rumors and innuendoelevating age-old slut-shaming to deadly levels, with suicide among bullied teenage girls becoming increasingly common.



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