Greetings from Amazon.com Delivers Teens Ah, sex ed. Two little words that evoke such powerful images--like garbled filmstrips, outdated textbooks, and embarrassing teachers. But today the birds and bees have never been so hip, thanks to Esther Drill, Heather McDonald, and Rebecca Odes, creators of gURL.com and authors of "Deal with It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain and Life as a gURL." With chapters such as "Boobs," "What's Up Down There," "To Do It or Not to Do It," and "Those Sucky Emotions," the gURL girls have got it all covered with frankness, humor, and style. In addition to a cooler-than- cool layout and loads of detailed info, "Deal with It" includes a ton of questions and comments from teenage girls who frequent the gURL.com Web site. In this piece, written exclusively for Amazon.com, the authors share how they first learned about sex (or didn't) and why they decided to write this big, bold book. Here's hoping it changes the face of sex ed. forever! You can find "Deal with It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain and Life as a gURL" at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671041576/entertainmentsit ****** How the Authors of "Deal with It" Dealt with It by Esther Drill, Heather McDonald, and Rebecca Odes "Deal with It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain and Life as a gURL" is the new book from gURL.com, the site we founded in 1996. We've packed it with information, resources, and real-life conversations with gURL community members on a range of topics--from losing your virginity to acne to alcohol and drugs to family problems. And on top of all that... it's fun! When we were in high school and junior high, there wasn't much out there in terms of information on sex and our bodies, etc. Most things we did find were inappropriate, incomplete, or very boring. Rebecca remembers: Basically, I secretly read every book on my parents' shelves that had any sexual content: "The Joy of Sex," "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex," "Fear of Flying," and all these clinical books about sex my mom had for her work as a therapist. There was also some late night, surreptitious viewing of soft-porn movies on cable. I was pretty well educated way before I was anywhere near ready to start experimenting myself. Heather remembers: My friends were useful but only up to a certain point, and even my numerous sisters seemed too embarrassed to really discuss any real experiences with me. (I think I was also too shy to ask.) The examples in my Catholic school health book seemed way too bizarre and unrelated to anyone I had ever met. Esther remembers: The really in-depth stuff I found came in junior high via my friends' fathers' porno collections. We used to sit in one friend's clubhouse reading "Penthouse" forums out loud to each other. Later, my best friend found her father's stag films and we staged a pretty shocking Super 8 film festival. Very freaky and certainly not the best introduction to healthy sexual relations. After we started our Web site, we discovered that girls today have many of the same questions we had, that it's still difficult to find good information, and that misconceptions still abound. For example: Q: What's an orgasm? A: It's what happens to a boy during sex. (WRONG!) Q: You have big breasts and boys laugh at you. If you have small breasts they laugh at you, too. Why is it that no matter what, you can't win with boys? (Sound familiar?) So we set out to make a book that could provide trusted resources and information while acknowledging the humorous side of teen trauma. As you can probably guess, putting the book together was really fun (and a lot of hard work). We ended up learning a lot ourselves in the process of doing research. Reading through conversations from the online community kept us laughing and reminded us again how the Web allows for great, honest, and open exchanges. So "Deal with It!" is really a tribute to the creativity, intelligence, and wit of the girls in our Internet community and to the universal angst of teenage girlhood. Featured in this e-mail: "Deal with It! A Whole New Approach to Your Body, Brain and Life as a gURL" by Esther Drill, Heather McDonald, and Rebecca Odes http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671041576/entertainmentsit ****** You'll find more great books, articles, excerpts, and interviews in Amazon.com's Teens section at Teens
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