Honestly, I think you might be 'throwing the baby out with the bath water'...regarding her....

just because her philosophy does not appeal to you, have you even read her book?

Suppose that ALL of her book does not appeal to you, a reasonable assumption, even though you probably have not even read her book...

why toss out all of what she has to say?

Wendy Shalit may very well have hit on something.

God knows a girl's not gonna get herpes, which is a LIFETIME disease, NO CURE, highly transmittable, if she follows Wendy's suggestions.

So what if it IS a little puritan?

{Jesus, it's raining its ass off here in West Tennessee as I write this...}

My thought is...we already KNOW we've got a problem with young women cutting themselves, burning themselves, engaging in self destructive behaviour, PROZAC scripts (prescriptions) are at an all time high, and so is divorce (63% for first time marriages)...

WHY NOT listen to new authors like Wendy?

Are you really that unimpressed with her?

And why, Julie Lieber?