It’s So My Mom.

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That’s the goal of new book “Start Talking: A Girl’s Guide for You and Your Mom about Health, Sex or Whatever.” Read the scant, three-questions-for-the-author writeup in the Detroit Free Press here.

Interestingly, writer and sex and intimacy therapist Mary Jo Rapini (can you tell she’s from Houston?) makes the case that young promiscuity can have a lot to do with bad body image.

Even MORE interestingly on a personal level, I had both a teetering body image and a tacit mom on the issue of sex growing up, and I still lost my virginity later in life than probably 85 percent of my Catholic schoolgirl friends. Moral of the story: Don’t talk to your young girls about the ins and outs of sex, per se. Just drill them with the idea that God has a baby ready to give them at age 15, and the only way to get out of it is to do, like, the reversal of sex. Whatever that is.

Side effects may occur: me and at least one other friend have been convinced in the past that we were pregnant under circumstances others would deem as immaculate conception.