by Ilana Kramer

Teen Sex That’s “No Big Deal”

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The scene is a lavish bat mitzvah affair, replete with giant martini glasses and girls in slinky hipster dresses. The dolled-up bat mitzvah girl is discussing sex with her two pals. An older woman overhears and comes over to scold her “Please,” the girl retorts. “I’ve been giving blow jobs since I’m 12”. Her best bud chimes in, “It’s the only way to get guys to like you.”

They Say “It’s Not Sex”

The articles in this special section:

Teen Sex That’s “No Big Deal”

by Ilana Kramer

Winter 2003-2004

“This isn’t sex!” say bat mitzvah girls about their parties. A Syrian Jewish family bonds over cooking. Muslim lesbian feminist Irshad Manji, on Islamic terror against women. Patients’ stories.

Allspice in the Family

by Dina Cheney

They Say “It’s Not Sex”

by Susan Weidman Schneider

Why Write a Patient’s Life as a Short Story?

by Julie Heifetz

Spring 2020

Hair and all its complications • Raising feminist boys today • Tipping, service work and our changing world • A hot new Yiddish star • Taking off my wedding ring

Winter 2019-2020

DNA secrets, hidden identities • Breast cancer and Jewish women • Tillie Olsen: feminist foremother • At her ritual haircut, she knew she was a girl • The first lady of lox

Fall 2019

#MeToo stories • Jewish women and breast cancer: crisis, intimacy, recovery • Jennifer Weiner on “chick lit’s” power • Suddenly, period positivity • A feminist Jew’s tough search for holiness in community.

Summer 2019

Jewish women and addiction. 1960s & 70s feminism roars back, trendy again. Transforming Jewish life in small-town Maine. Choosing to be Jewish–thus feeling perpetually “the stranger.” Food writing by women that changes the entire culture. She redefines the meaning of Jewish art.

Teen Sex That’s “No Big Deal”

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