Dirty Little Secrets : Breaking the Silence on Teenage Girls and Promiscuity

from fanoftheoffice

I was a fan of Cohen's memoir, Loose Girl, so I thought I'd love this book. Same author, same subject. Unfortunately, I really could not get into this one. Since her memoir came out, she has interviewed many other so-called "loose girls," that is, girls who were or are promiscuous. In each chapte...

from chaostheory08

This is a Reading Good Books review. When I found out I won this on GoodReads First Reads, I was excited. I read Cohen's memoir, Loose Girl, earlier this year. I thought it was a moving piece and a rare look into the life of a girl society views as a "slut". It was not an easy read and it left me...

from lfoster82

I recieved this book from the Early Reviewers Club. I expected this book to read more like a story, or short vignettes of real life stories. While there were some stories, the book mostly contained facts and figures and references. This made the book difficult for me to get through. For someone w...

from charliemarie

Dirty Little Secrets offers a more academic (and somewhat drier) perspective than Kerry Cohen's memoir Loose Girl. There's certainly insight here, and the subject matter is important, but the style didn't manage to consistently hold my attention, and I felt that (for such an emotional weighty top...

from Jadesbooks

I'm going to start by saying I loved Kerry Cohen's Loose Girl, and was really excited to read this book. I've been trying to read it for months now, and I feel like I'm back in college reading a text book. The information is so cut and dry, and there is just so much on a single page, that I found...