Women's Magazines Pressure Women Into Degrading Sex While Pretending It's Empowering

I first started reading popular young women’s magazines when I was about 13 years old. I didn’t have many friends to talk to, had recently started homeschooling, had no experience whatsoever with boys, and found myself severely uncomfortable with the woman I was very quickly becoming. I turned to women’s magazines to teach me the ways of my impending adulthood, to give me a vision with which to make sense of the world, and to learn what would be expected of me in a romantic relationship and what it meant to be a modern young woman today.