Sexualization is imposed from the outside as opposed to sexuality, an understanding of the body's responses and desires and ability to communicate that, cultivated from within.

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

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

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.

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

But it is Bella, not the supernaturals she falls in with, who is the true horror show here, at least as a female role model.

Sex-ed courses look at girl's internal parts: for boys it's about ejaculation, erection and wet dreams; for girls, it's periods and unwanted pregnancy. We never talk to girls about sexual self-exploration or self-knowledge.