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Kids Gone Wild - From Rainbow Parties to Sexting, Understanding the Hype Over Teen Sex (Hardcover)
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Kids Gone Wild - From Rainbow Parties to Sexting, Understanding the Hype Over Teen Sex (Hardcover)
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The myths and truths of teen's sexual behavior. Winner of the 2015
Brian McConnell Book Award presented by the International Society
for Contemporary Legend Research To hear mainstream media sources
tell it, the sex lives of modern teenagers outpace even the
smuttiest of cable television shows. Teen girls "sext" explicit
photos to boys they like; they wear "sex bracelets" that signify
what sexual activities they have done, or will do; they team up
with other girls at "rainbow parties" to perform sex acts on groups
of willing teen boys; they form "pregnancy pacts" with their best
girlfriends to all become teen mothers at the same time. From The
Today Show, to CNN, to the New York Times, stories of these events
have been featured widely in the media. But are most teenage-or
younger-children really going to sex parties and having multiple
sexual encounters in an orgy-like fashion? Researchers say no-teen
sex is actually not rampant and teen pregnancy is at low levels.
But why do stories like these find such media traffic, exploiting
parents' worst fears? How do these rumors get started, and how do
they travel around the country and even across the globe? In Kids
Gone Wild, best-selling authors Joel Best and Kathleen A. Bogle use
these stories about the fears of the growing sexualization of
childhood to explore what we know about contemporary legends and
how both traditional media and the internet perpetuate these rumors
while, at times, debating their authenticity. Best and Bogle
describe the process by which such stories spread, trace how and to
where they have moved, and track how they can morph as they travel
from one medium to another. Ultimately, they find that our
society's view of kids raging out of control has drastic and
unforeseen consequences, fueling the debate on sex education and
affecting policy decisions on everything from the availability of
the morning after pill to who is included on sex offender
registries. A surprising look at the truth behind the
sensationalism in our culture, Kids Gone Wild is a much-needed
wake-up call for a society determined to believe the worst about
its young people.
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