Good-Bye Gidget: Sex and Teen Girls Today

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 29, 2016

Peggy Orenstein, contributing writer to New York Times Magazine, author of Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape (Harper, 2016), goes beyond the moral panic and hype through interviews with teens, parents and experts to find out how today's teen girls are navigating the current social-media-connected, internet-porn-infused, sexual terrain.

→ Hear more: Peggy Orenstein will be speaking and signing books at the Barnes and Noble on 82nd and Broadway tonight at 7pm. See here for more details.

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