Girl power

When even CNN notes that we are now living in a "porn-driven culture," we have a serious problem.  It's not a healthy situation for boys, to be sure, but as the father of three daughters, my focus tends to be on the girls:

"Instead of pornography or performative sexuality being one choice among many ways of being sexual, it's essentially become the standard of sexiness," says Simon [a high school counselor and therapist]. "It's also the standard by which a man or woman is a prude, depending on how much they embrace that kind of sexuality." . . .

While boys tend to seek out porn for their own sexual pleasure, Simon sees a sexual disconnect with girls who exhibit provocative behavior they're not ready for -- from undressing online to performing oral sex on boys.  "It doesn't have anything to do with their sexual pleasure," says Simon. "It has to do with pleasing somebody else -- the grasping for attention. As a parent, it makes me want to cry."