Peggy Orenstein Quotes About Sexuality

Quotes about: Sexuality

• Sexualization is imposed from the outside as opposed to sexuality, an understanding of the body's responses and desires and ability to communicate that, cultivated from within.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Understanding, Desire, Body

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Sexualization is the performance of sexuality, the performance of sexiness. Girls are super good at that now.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Sexuality, Sexiness

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• Girls are freer to express their femininity and their sexuality and we're not tamping that down or denying it anymore. But it ends up putting them, first of all, in this box. And secondly, premature sexualization of girls actually does the opposite of what people think it might; it actually disconnects them from their sexuality and makes for decreased sexual health as they get older.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Thinking, People

• Marketing to girls constantly presents a hypersexualized idea of girls; they're expected to appear sexy but be cut off from their sexuality.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Sexy, Cutting

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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