Do you consider yourself a slut

GWF challenges the notion of female sexuality as Fisher and Hutchinson candidly and unapologetically discussing their sex lives for hundreds of thousands to hear. Beyond that, the weekly podcast is a platform for the duo to discuss important issues relating to gender inequality. I love my body and I want it to be out in the world because it helps me express myself. The backbone I had when I was sixteen was very brittle compared to the one I have now.

Leora Tanenbaum wants you to stop using the word "slut. Her latest book, I Am Not a Slut: Slut-Shaming in the Age of the Internet , is a deep dive into how online culture and social media have reshaped the landscape for girls and young women. Young women today, she says, are more likely than ever to be called "sluts," and to live in the gray zone of wanting to be sexy but being punished if they're seen as too slutty. And all of that is exacerbated in an environment where there's always a cellphone camera on hand, and harassment can be conducted anonymously online.

On tonight's episode of " True Life " we met 3 young women who are dealing with an all-too-common problem: Slut-shaming. Whether they are hearing it from their friends or family, the impact this has on Della, Rosa, Shakirah and is heartbreaking. Each woman is faced with the challenge of wanting to freely express her sexuality, while dealing with jabs and judgements from the people she cares about the most. In Della's case, it was her friends Clint and Jason that wouldn't stop commenting on her sex life. In Della's opinion, the guys believed that because they had both hooked up with Della in the past, they could say whatever they wanted about her.

In , two women who were long past college age settled into a dorm room at a large public university in the Midwest. Elizabeth Armstrong, a sociology professor at the University of Michigan, and Laura Hamilton, then a graduate assistant and now a sociology professor at the University of California at Merced, were there to examine the daily lives and attitudes of college students. The researchers interviewed the 53 women on their floor every year for five years—from the time they were freshmen through their first year out of college. On top of asking the students about GPAs and friend groups, the researchers also dug into their beliefs about morality—sometimes through direct questions, but often, simply by being present for a late-night squabble or a bashful confession. As Armstrong and Hamilton write in a new study published in Social Psychology Quarterly , economic inequality drove many of the differences in the ways the women talked about appropriate sexual behavior.