Youth Culture 101

 

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Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

 

Endorsements

Forum Discussion

Additional Resources

Chapter 8 – Hooking Up: Understanding Our Sexualized Youth Culture

Kids and Sex: New Rules! - the rapidly changing world of teenage sexuality

 

Teens and pornography - Always bad, getting worse

 

The Casual Sex Revolution - Responding to the casual sex movement among today's adolescents

 

Why sex makes us feel grown up - Teenagers and the desire for intimacy, by guest author, and friend of CPYU, Susan Den Herder

 

Living in a "porn is the norm" culture - What parents can do about living in a pornographic culture, used by permission from Harvest USA's Harvest News

 

Smells like teen...body spray! - Companies are using sexually charged imagery and marketing to sell body spray to young men

 

Feminine Sexuality - A Guide to the Body and Soul of a Young Woman, by Susan Den Herder

 

Oral Sex IS Sex, and Most Teens Don't Know It - The growing epidemic of teens engaging in oral sex

 

Havin' a party - A look into the party scene on college campuses

 

More Than One Message - Teens are wearing shirts loaded with double meanings

 

Life as THEY know it - What television is teaching our teens about sex

 

Love's Got Everything To Do With It! - Teaching our kids about love, relationships, sex, and marriage

 

To Tell Or Not To Tell - How to respond to Planned Parenthood and teenage sexuality

 

A Kiss is just a Kiss? - The Britney Spears and Madonna kiss and the disturbing new trend of mainstreaming lesbianism

 

Guess Who's Coming to Breakfast - A look at the changing face of adolescent sleepovers

 

Teens and Sexually Transmitted Diseases

 

Double Take: Apparel that Speaks - new fashion features sexual double meanings

 

Teens and Oral Sex - teen are experimenting with oral sex at an increasing rate, and many of them say it isn't even sex

 

Freaking Out on the Dance Floor - What you need to know about "freak dancing" - it's more than just "dirty dancing"

 

What You Need to Know about Scarfing - a deadly form of sexual experimentation known as "autoerotic asphyxiation"

 

Abercrombie & Fitch - Selling More than Clothes - The A&F catalog is sending some disturbing messages to our kids about body image and sexuality

 

Maximum Menace - Maxim and other "young men's magazines" are telling our teenage boys a lot about sexuality, and this in turn puts pressure on teenage girls

 

Condom Ad Concerns - when condom ads are being aimed at teens

 

M&Ms Green Makeover - what an M&M marketing campaign tells our kids about sex

 

Just Say...Yes? - Look who's fighting against abstinence education!

 

Teens and TV: Stretching the Sexual Envelope - sex on television

 

Home...Alone? - what happens when kids are left home alone