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Title: Deal with It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain, and Life as a Gurl by Esther Drill, Heather Mcdonald, Rebecca Odes ISBN: 0-671-04157-6 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.51 (63 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: DEAL with this book, parents...
Comment: Okay, all these parents complaining about this book are seriously annoying. Yeah, this book has pictures of sex position, talks about orgasms, masturbation, and oral sex...what's wrong with that? Your children, as hard as it is to believe, are going to find out about this stuff sooner or later. Maybe they already have. (At school, on TV, from friends...) You can't hide it forever. Just face it. I doubt it's going to make your daughter want to run out and have sex with someone. If they do, maybe you're partly to blame. This book deals with sexual positions and what not, but it also talks about protection, such as condoms and Depo-Provera (and tells you the effectiveness and how to use it, the advantages and disadvantages) and about STDs like AIDS and Chlamydia (PREVENTION, symptoms, how you can contract it...). It talks about rape, adoption, sexual preference, molestation, date rape, drugs (and their risks), periods, friends, fitting in, boobs, and just about being a girl. What's wrong with that? If I had a daughter, I would definitely give it to her.
Rating: 1
Summary: Parents: Beware
Comment: I stumbled across this book at the local library. (I have a preteen daughter, so I have an interest in books she might be attracted to.) The book is extremely graphic (subject matter, language, and various sex-related and sexual position illustrations), but very colorful and attractive on the outside. Inside there are plenty of sidebars to send the reader to other parts of the book, I'm sure with intentions of luring the reader through the whole thing.
The book is geared toward preteen and teen girls, supposedly to teach the girls about what they need to know in today's society, despite what adults might tell them. Unfortunately, it promotes teen sex, homosexuality as a viable option worth trying, sex with multiple partners (even simultaneously), masturbation (with pornography for added pleasure), and is very condescending about the "outdated" laws of sodomy in some towns.
I wasn't surprised when I saw Planned Parenthood, P-Flag, and other extremely liberal organizations listed as references; however, the book writers managed to get the Right To Life organization in there, and I'm not so sure that organization would like to be associated with a book like this. The website, [website], only touches on some of the subject matter in the book, but it's explicit enough, and discerning adults can certainly be able to see the motives of the people behind the website and book. The focus is destructive.
However, many youth and parents are not so discerning. I am concerned that a book like this (and its flashy website) is so visually appealing, written by "trustworthy" adult women, and readily available to impressionable young women. My children are going to have a greater battle as teens and adults than I anticipated if their peers are being conformed to this way of thinking.
Rating: 4
Summary: Covers a lot
Comment: This book is very interesting and great for average non-brainiac girls. It's colorful and very fun. This book covers almost everything you can think of, but is some not very thorough. Sometimes you get only a few sentences on the subject and maybe some other girl's views that aren't exactly smart or helpful.
Besides those vague subjects, the rest are well written and contain lots of information. I even used this book to help out with my project on cigarette smoking. It's like a fun text book thats not so strictand boring.
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Title: The Looks Book by Rebecca Odes, Heather McDonald, Heather Drill, Esther Drill ISBN: 0142002119 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 24 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Any Advice? by Fiona Gibb, Tucker Shaw, Sara Schwartz, Alloy Publishers ISBN: 0141309210 Publisher: Penguin Merchandise Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Sex, Boys & You: Be Your Own Best Girlfriend by Joni Arredia ISBN: 0965320324 Publisher: Perc Pub Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Get over It: How to Survive Breakups, Back-Stabbing Friends, and Bad Haircuts (Teen Magazine) by Beth Mayall, Teenage Magazine ISBN: 0439114659 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: This Book Is About Sex by Tucker Shaw, Flona Gibb, Fiona Gibb ISBN: 0141310197 Publisher: Penguin Merchandise Pub. Date: 23 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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