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Title: Sex Smart: 501 Reasons to Hold Off on Sex by Susan Browning Pogany ISBN: 1-57749-043-6 Publisher: Fairview Press Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: True Love Waits
Comment: I give "True Love Waits" presentations around the country and SexSmart, by Susan Browning Pogany is the sole book I recommend to all teenagers and parents. It is the most accurate and readable abstinence resource I have ever encountered. IF I WERE MADE OF MONEY, THIS BOOK WOULD BE IN THE HANDS OF EVERY TEENAGER IN AMERICA!! Please get it for those you love.
Thank you, Susan!
Rating: 1
Summary: disturbing propaganda
Comment: I can't honestly offer a fair review of this book, since I've only carefully read the parts that Amazon.com makes available: back cover, full table of contents, short 6-page excerpt from the beginning of the book, other people's reviews. I've read enough, however, to get the message: the author claims that teen sex is utterly dangerous and unfulfilling, and always leads to unwanted pregnancy, STDs, broken relationships, personal insecurity, etc. She implies that teenagers only have sex out of peer pressure, or a desire to be loved, or some foolish immature notion of what "love" is. She never considers the possibility that teenage sex might be tender, satisfying, safely managed, thoughtfully initiated within a deeply intimate and monogamous relationship, and in the end, not such a big deal to begin with. I'm guessing she also doesn't provide any advice on how to have sex in the safest and best way possible if one has indeed decided to become sexually active (as many, many other books directed towards teenagers do). As a result I find Pogany's book unfounded, annoying, destructive, and propagandistic. It's a completely one-sided view of things, written to put forth pseudo-scientific arguments against some socially undesirable behavior. Her "sound bite" approach (in which she doesn't write continuous prose, but instead provides short, separate little paragraphs on various reasons not to have sex) is not very persuasive, because it treats her pronouncements superficially and leaves them unsupported. I think this book is a good example of how abstinence programming merely serves to scare teenagers: sex is bad, sex is unhealthy, sex leaves you downhearted and regretful, sex should be saved for committed marriages and partnerships. Pity the adults in America who promote this culture don't also live by it.
Rating: 5
Summary: The book I thought I'd have to write myself
Comment: Susan Browning Pogany has written a book I really thought about writing myself. As the mother of a 13 year old daughter, I've stayed up late into the night thinking of all the things I will need to tell my daughter, and should probably write out. How boys think of sex differently than girls. How teens are being manipulated by the media through a bombardment of sexual images via magazines, movies, television, the internet and music - for no other reason than to draw them in as consumers. How teens can fall prey to peer pressure when they loose track of what is important to them. These are only a few of the points Susan Browning Pogany offers for teens to consider in "SexSmart".
Too many parents I've spoken to about teen sex have the "Hey, they're going to have sex anyway. What are you gonna do?" attitude, then proceed to rent motel rooms for their kids' proms and stock their medicine cabinets with condoms. They seem to feel it is the easier route to take. I believe in giving my child ALL of the facts, as are in "SexSmart".
I only wish I could have read this book when I was a teenager. I wouldn't have been nearly as confused, nor bought into all of the mixed messages. I would love to see this book in high school sex-ed courses. Too often the kids are given the physiological facts, without the emotional information and downfalls of sex too soon, which are addressed in this book.
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Title: Sweetie Here's the Best Reason on the Planet to Say No to Your Boyfriend : Even If You've Already Said Yes by Debra J. Palardy ISBN: 0805948759 Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Co Pub. Date: 08 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The Truth about Sex by High School Senior Girls by Kristen Anderson ISBN: 0970883102 Publisher: Kristen Anderson Pub. Date: 31 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Underground Guide to Teenage Sexuality: An Essential Handbook for Today's Teens and Parents by Michael J. Basso ISBN: 1577491319 Publisher: Fairview Press Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: Expanded Third Edition : A Book for Teens on Sex and Relationships by Ruth Bell ISBN: 081292990X Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 08 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Epidemic: How Teen Sex Is Killing Our Kids by Meg Meeker, MARGARET J. MEEKER ISBN: 089526143X Publisher: National Book Network Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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