Scarlet Letters, 2002

November, 2002

"What is so monstrous about a sex-crazed girl?" That's the question Emily White tackles in Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut. The author posted this query in a syndicated advice column: "Are you or were you the slut of your high school?" More than 100 girls and women responded. White's book explores the destructive process by which American teens project their sexual confusion on to innocent bystanders. Once ostracized (often because they developed breasts e...