![]() ![]() Many young women no longer baulk at the opportunity to take their clothes off to prove that they are “sex positive” and comfortable with flaunting their physical attributes. ![]() In our sex-saturated culture, the “bad girl” is the archetype of liberation and (post)modernity. Drawing on over a hundred interviews and thousands of emails from women from diverse cultural, ideological and racial backgrounds, Shalit’s narrative surveys the dreary outworking of a failed revolution and discerns the signs of a new counter-culture. ![]() Like Shalit’s first book, Girls Gone Mild argues that the sexual revolution may not have been as beneficial for women as staunch feminists stridently assert and questions why there is so much opposition to considering, even just for a moment, a more wholesome alternative. ![]() The title is a play on the infamous Girls Gone Wild videos which ruthlessly exploit the sexual imprudence of American college girls. Now Shalit has penned a sequel, Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It’s Not Bad to Be Good. Eight years ago, at the youthful age of 23, Wendy Shalit put forward a compelling case for sexual prudence in A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue. ![]()
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