Desire and the Teenage Girl

Worcester Magazine
Janice Harvey
November 14-20, 2002

In preparation for Deborah L. Tolman's book signing at the Tatnuck Bookseller & Sons in Worcester, Worcester Magazine interviewed the author of Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk About Sexuality . In the article, Dr. Tolman states: "As a society, we parcel sexuality out, assuming that normal boys but not girls have 'raging hormones' -- and that normal girls but not boys long for emotional connection and relationships. We assume that adolescent boys are burgeoning sexual beings. In contrast, when it comes to girls, what we still expect and in many ways continue to encourage is their yearning for love, relationships and romance."

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