ByAshley Cardiff

Ashley Cardiff is a writer living in Brooklyn. Her first book, Night Terrors: Sex, Dating, Puberty, and Other Alarming Things, is a collection of essays about sex and dating (this is an excerpt from it). You can follow her on Twitter here, if you want.

  1. People often say that the modern world or this culture and that industry are “saturated with sex.” I’m inclined to believe this isn’t true because it wasn’t long ago that most women were regularly married off at twelve. That’s a culture saturated with sex, when it’s acceptable to fuck children. Despite what they said about suggestively wholesome teen pop singers and hot shorts marketed to little girls, my generation wasn’t saturated with sex. We were…

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