So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids

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So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids
by Diane E. Levin, Jean Kilbourne
from Ballantine Books

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• As the mother of a 16 yr old girl
  I worry every day about her exposure to over-sexualized imagery and messages. I search often on ParentsDigest for summaries on books on this subject, and this one was money well spent. It is nearly impossible to sheild her completely, but this book explains how important it is to try to protect her from the effects of media and society's message of sexuality, as well as how deep the effects of those messages runs

• A great call to action
  I loved the way this book answers the question: "How has our culture been warped into an unenviable cesspool of uncaring sex and gratuitous violence?" Diane Levin & Jean Kilbourne offer great rationale as to how and why this happened -- and more importantly, they offer excellent action steps to help families and communities counteract these forces.
  I'm a 22-year-old recent college graduate who majored in Communications and completed a highly educational internship at the Media Education Foundation... more info

• This should be mandatory reading
  I first heard Jean Kilbourne lecture at The Harvard Medical School
  over 30 years ago. Her lecture was transformational, and I never
  saw the world in the same way again. Since then, I have followed
  her career closely. She brought her message into print form
  with her first book; "Can't Buy my Love". Dr. Kilbourne's
  raison d'etre is to educate the public to unconscious and conscious
  psychological devices that keep women and girls in a one down
  position. She... more info

• Basically Good but with a Few Caveats
  "So Sexy So Soon" contains a good discussion of the problem parents today face with the hypersexualization of childhood. I really appreciated how Drs. Levin and Kilbourne go beyond simply recounting the problem to actually making concrete suggestions on what parents can do to fight back. Too many other books on the subject don't offer enough in the way of solutions (for example Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good and Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Damages... more info

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