The sexual cost of female success

Oh Good Lord. In Session Four of Turn the Page we look at the state of sex on college campuses. There’s much hand-wringing over sex’s impact on young women’s self-esteem. The latest entry from Salon:

Not a day goes by when we don’t hear about the incredible accomplishments of today’s kick-butt young women. They outnumber men in college and they are out-earning their male peers when they first enter the work world — to such a degree that many consider it evidence of a “boy crisis.” But the authors of a new book, “Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate and Think About Marrying,” say all this success has come at a great cost to women’s sexual bargaining power. When it comes to relationships, they say men are calling all the shots — which means less commitment and more sex.

More: http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/01/19/young_women_romance

– Morra