Hot Sex And Young Girls By Heller Summary

In the article “’Hot’ Sex & Young Girls” written by Zoe Heller, she takes on the prevalent issue involving young women in today’s society. Heller’s main idea is to inform people that the sexual pressure placed on women needs to stop, and women need to be more assertive with their relationships. She supports her ideas with two books, American Girls and Girls and Sex. The first book Heller talks about is American Girls written by Nancy Sales. According to Heller, Sales believes that because women are exposed to this culture on social media, that they’re no better off than when their mothers were young. The hyper sexual pressure women are exposed to on social media causes girls to not only feel like they must conform to these unrealistic appearances, but also to meet these standards to please others. Sales comments on how fifteen-year-old girls feel this anxiety to get a certain number of likes on social media sites, as well as achieve a certain appearance to become popular and get boys to like them. Heller

Heller points out that neither of them believed there was anything wrong during their youth, but they were both quick to point out the issues today. She claims that since both authors aren’t of this generation, they can’t effectively judge or compare because they don’t fully understand. In Orenstein’s own experience she found that relationships weren’t to have sex, but to become intimate which shows the change in values these days. Heller goes on to say that even though kinds of sexism have been raised in the Internet era, the way both authors portray their generations isn’t that far off from now. Another issue Heller pointed out was how Sales based her book off of interviews with over two hundred girls, but Heller found it strange that all the interviews came back with the same results. She instead suggests that Sales used a narrow line of questioning rather than a random