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Article Excerpt
We thank the editors of the Journal of Sex Research, Cynthia Graham and Dennis Fortenberry, for supporting this important interdisciplinary dialogue. We are grateful for the insights of the blind reviewers, and we thank Ine Vanwesenbeeck, Nicole Else-Quest, and Janet Shibley Hyde for their public responses to our article. We see this moment as connected to two larger, ongoing conversations concerning (a) the intersections of sexuality, objectification, culture, health, and power; and (b) academics as public scholars. Given that our previous positions were made in our article, we focus our response on a few key points made by Vanwesenbeeck and Else-Quest and Hyde.
Vanwesenbeeck, a Dutch sexologist, makes a strong case for considering both the risks and the rights associated with sexualization. We appreciate her connection between the "tone" of the American Psychological Association (APA; 2007) report and the sexual double standards that encourage women to be "heroes of sexual inhibition rather than of sexual excitation." Additionally, Vanwesenbeeck's discussion of sex work is, we think, at the critical edge of this conversation about girls and women's sexuality. If we (scholars, activists, parents, and teachers, etc.) want to truly challenge the notion that a girl's or woman's worth is rooted in her sexuality, we need to recognize the multiple institutions and traditions that reinforce this notion.
Cultural and religious traditions that privilege men always require intense regulation and surveillance of girls' and women's sexuality....
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