Peggy Orenstein

In New Study, Jewish Teens Have Most Liberated Attitudes Towards Sex

Nearly three-quarters of white evangelical teens disapprove of premarital sex, as opposed to half of mainline Protestants and a quarter of Jews. Evangelical virgins, incidentally, are also the least likely to imagine that sex will feel good; Jews are most likely to cite pleasure as a reason to indulge.


PEGGY ORENSTEIN in Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape, March 2016.