As I am reading this article, it reminds me of our present day. Things have not changed since the 1950s. Sex is something that is shown all throughout the world. Something that seems everyone is interested in. As a female, at a young age we are taught many things about sex. Females are taught that sex is bad and you can only have sex when you are married. I mean you will hear this from everyone except your peers. In the reading it describes that there is division from the “good girls” and the” bad girls”. A good girls is described to be someone who is sexually pure, one who waits till marriage despite all the pressure in the society. As for the bad girl is said to be the opposite, one who goes all the way, who are looked as as a sex object. But why is there a division.
Teens or females at a young age in general are told the rules about sex, but these rules can be confusing to many people, which is said to be the sexual puzzles. How can a teen know what to do when they have all these things promoting sex? Sex in the 50s and even now is said to be a free action but at the same times there are rules. Mass media; television, magazines, advertising etc. portrayed sex as something natural, that everybody does.
Mass media wanted women to be desirable but still conservative, and this is what many girls looked at. It was hard to keep up with the image of being a good girl. Many people have sex and even hide it. Sex is something that is looked at as something wonderful. Many people according to the article can disagree, for example Cher describes her first intercourse and it she stated "is this it". So all this is pressure that people have to go through, and leads to the confusion of many girls. All together this is what i understood from this article.
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