All girls over age 14 remove pubic hair. The only touching is to remove hair. That's grim.

One of the challenges is to create an equally positive, satisfying sense of femininity and feminine identity in a different way so that there are things you're saying yes to and satisfying that urge that your daughter has to be assert her girlness. The surface level of the culture, and really several inches into it, makes that very hard to do. I hate to put another thing on parents' plates. But the culture is very intentional in what it's telling your daughter and what it's telling you about the message of femininity. And if you're not intentional and conscious back, you lose.

Intimate justice touches on ideas of gender inequity, violence, bodily integrity, physical and mental health. I don't expect a 15-year-old girl to have that figured out; it's hard enough to have it figured out when you're 50.

The point of creativity is to express and challenge yourself, to make meaning, to embrace your life.

Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure.

Marketing to girls constantly presents a hypersexualized idea of girls; they're expected to appear sexy but be cut off from their sexuality.

We're afraid if girls find out sex is pleasurable they'll stop being gatekeepers, they'll go out and have sex.