was disgusted by contemporary sexual norms." As the title proclaims, Shalit is still convinced that true strength and happiness come not from deadening one's emotions and having sex for fun, but from practicing modesty and self-restraint.Īs Shalit recounts, "To find out why modesty is more appealing to younger people, Pollitt might have talked to her own daughter, Sophie, who. On the contrary, she has a new book out, Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good. Well, it's now been a few years, and Wendy regrets nothing. The Nation solemnly foretold that I would 'certainly be embarrassed' and regret my stance 'in a few years.'" might be challenged," Shalit recalls now, "but nothing prepared me for the tongue-lashings I would receive from my elders. While many people embraced the idea of a return to modesty-especially the young women whose struggles and aspirations Shalit wrote about-others were appalled. Eight years ago, a young writer named Wendy Shalit took the culture by storm with a radical book called A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue.
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