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Summary: How about a book guidebook for boys?
Review: I agree with the other reviewers: This book should be given to boys to read also. But, somebody should write a book about lines that girls use on guys. I remember going out on a third or fourth date with a girl. She wanted to do a "little shopping" before we went to the restaurant. She picked out an outfit that cost about [$$$], went into the dressing room and put it on, modeled it for me, and solicited my approval with comments like, "Don't you think this is is just too cute?" After the clerk rang up the sale calmly said, "I forgot my purse." Both she and the clerk looked at me. I put it on my credit card and we went to the restaurant. I never say her wear the outfit because she never returned my phone calls after that night.
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Summary: I don't get it...
Review: I had to read this in 8th grade health class. But what I was wondering the whole time was why doesn't anyone get the GUYS' side of things. I'm a girl and it disturbs me that girls have so many books for them, but guys have little to none. It's not as common, but girlfriends do pressure their boyfriends to have sex too. It's not completely unheard of, people. It's not a bad thing to have virgin boys!
Overall, the book was just a disappointment. I wasn't expecting much out of it since I was reading it for school, and wasn't wrong with my judgment either.
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Summary: If they said yes, there woud be no need for pressure!
Review: I was intrigued by the idea of a book that exposes the lines boys use to pressure girls into sex for what they are. However, I was rather disappointed in the actual treatment of the subject matter. Boys are portrayed as nothing more than scheming, manipulative - dare I say - evil people. Girls are good, nice people - boys are whiny cry babies who only think of themselves. Frankly, as a mother of both, I was slightly offended.The lines themselves are well presented - but the rest of the material is written either with far too much in the way of scare tactics and/or far too much in the way of judgement against boys. Does the author truly not understand that it is quite natural for boys to behave the way they do? If so, she certainly never makes it clear. Girls who feel they are in love, and who are trying to decide whether to have sex or not, may not respond positively to their boyfriend being demonized and emasculated. I am glad I read the book before I gave it to my daughter. I will have her read it, but I will know how to augment the information being presented with a little "balance" - something that is clearly lacking in this book. BTW - for $..., I expected a little more than 16 pages of text with another several pages left blank for your own "notes". Not very good value at all.
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Summary: Miss-informed
Review: I was totally misled by the title of the book. I thought this was going to be some red hot advice on how to "whiteant" your female friend's current relationship with some other guy and, you know, make her "your own". Instead, this is a whole bunch of advice apparently from mother to daughter about how to avoid having sex. Like, what's the deal there?
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Summary: Recommended, in spite of its weaknesses.
Review: It's misleading to call this a "book"; I think "pamphlet" is a better word. It's a thin paperback, only 34 pages long - with the last 18 being blank pages for "notes"! The first 8 pages consist of a bullet list of the lines that boys use to pressure girls into going farther than they want. This leaves only 8 pages for the real material. The author is not a professional in the field, and the writing style shows it. It's written in a very conversational style, full of opinion and structured in a haphazard manner. Lots of slang, including some that I don't use around my pre-teenage kids. Yet I still give it a good rating. This is one of the most important topics that a teenage girl needs to know about, and the advice here is sound. It exposes the issue very frankly, and gets right to the point of how to deal with it.
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Summary: Required reading ?
Review: This book should be required reading for every young teen (It wouldn't hurt the boys to read it also.) I found it easy to follow, to the point and fun to read. I bought two copies for friends that have teen girls and they both loved it. One father even heard his tell a friend "My father has told me some of this same stuff!" If this book can save even one girl from going through the pain of rejection or an unwanted baby, than it is worth "way" more than the purchase price. Good for Debra for caring enough to write it!
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