Dirty Little Secrets: Breaking the Silence on Teenage Girls and Promiscuity
They have sex too early and for the wrong reasons.
They get STDs. They get pregnant too young.
They have "friends with benefits" but with no benefit to themselves.
They don't get called. They get dumped.
They hate themselves for being unlovable for being needy.
They are loose girls they are everywhere and they need our help.
In the provocative hit memoir Loose Girl, Kerry Cohen explored her own promiscuity with brutal candor and stunning clarity. Dirty Little Secrets is the eye-opening follow-up readers have been clamoring for, a riveting look at today's adolescent girls who use sex as a means to prove their worth. Cohen lays bare the hard truths about this dangerous life that reveals itself in girls you wouldn't expect and in ways you might not see--and that can seriously damage and hurt these girls. Featuring stories from self-admitted loose girls across the country, Dirty Little Secrets is an unforgettable wake-up call for our culture, ourselves, and our vulnerable daughters.
"Very few people can write about teen girls' sexual promiscuity with the candor, empathy, and intelligence Kerr
Dirty Little Secrets: Breaking the Silence on Teenage Girls and Promiscuity
They have sex too early and for the wrong reasons.
They get STDs. They get pregnant too young.
They have "friends with benefits" but with no benefit to themselves.
They don't get called. They get dumped.
They hate themselves for being unlovable for being needy.
They are loose girls they are everywhere and they need our help.
In the provocative hit memoir Loose Girl, Kerry Cohen explored her own promiscuity with brutal candor and stunning clarity. Dirty Little Secrets is the eye-opening follow-up readers have been clamoring for, a riveting look at today's adolescent girls who use sex as a means to prove their worth. Cohen lays bare the hard truths about this dangerous life that reveals itself in girls you wouldn't expect and in ways you might not see—and that can seriously damage and hurt these girls. Featuring stories from self-admitted loose girls across the country, Dirty Little Secrets is an unforgettable wake-up call for our culture, ourselves, and our vulnerable daughters.
"Very few people can write about teen girls' sexual promiscuity with the candor, empathy, and intelligence
Kerry Cohen
Kerry Cohen is the author of six books, with three forthcoming. They include Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity (Hyperion), Seeing Ezra (Seal), Dirty Little Secrets (Sourcebooks), Easy (Simon & Schuster), The Good Girl (Delacorte), and It's Not You, It's Me (Delacorte). Forthcoming are an anthology about women and shopping titled The Dressing Room (Seal), a book about writing about others when writing memoir titled Sticks & Stones (Writer’s Digest Books), and a memoir about difficult female friendships (Hawthorne). Kerry has been featured on Dr. Phil, Good Morning America, and many other television and radio shows. Her essays have been published in the New York Times’ “Modern Love” section, the Washington Post, Portland Monthly, and others. Kerry has blogs on Psychology Today and the Huffington Post. She practices as a psychotherapist in Portland, Oregon. Learn more at
Dirty Little Secrets
Cohen’s introduction summarizes her argument and sets out the stakes by referencing a range of research that suggests promiscuous sexual behavior can be dangerous for teenagers. The remainder of the book is divided into two parts. Part one “identif[ies] the loose girl experience,” while part two “helps girls gain power over their sexual lives.”
Cohen is concerned with “girlhood, from puberty on.” She traces three aspects of girls’ experiences which she sees as essential: girls’ identities become bound up with how boys see them; a key part of thi
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