Unprotected

My review of Unprotected the new book by a UCLA psychiatrist is here on Mercator Net. Money quotes:

The author recounts the evidence that sexually active teenage girls are
about three times more likely to be depressed and to have attempted suicide than girls who were not sexually active. ...This refusal to face inconvenient facts cries out for explanation. One of the author's patients asked her, “Why, Doctor, do they tell you how to protect your body from herpes and pregnancy, but they don’t tell you what it does to your heart?”

Why indeed? Read it all here, or subscribe to my newsletter and get the whole thing in your in-box on Monday.