Health
We're Numbing A Generation Of Girls Before They Ever Feel Anything
A girl put on an SSRI at eight has no before. She will move through her first crush, her first heartbreak, her first kiss, all of it dialed down a few notches, and she will never think to ask what's missing.
By Dr. Monique Yohanan4 min read
By all appearances, we live in a sex-saturated society, one that has thrown out taboos on premarital sex, pornography, and, increasingly, polyamory. Explicit sexual content permeates our TV shows, our advertisements, and even our schools. Though our mainstream culture denies the sanctity of sex (or of anything at all, really), it still holds sexual liberation, especially women’s sexual liberation, as the pinnacle of the human experience.