Dangerous Look into the Empty Lives of Teenage Girls

The empty lives of teenage girls is very depressing and a horrible topic to look at, if someone doesn’t want you to know what the do with their lives DON’T STUDY IT!!!!! Doctor Sax is a family physician and leader of the National Association for Single Sex Education; he lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and daughter. He has 3 main ideas of teenage girls and they are: Girls have way more anxiety than boys, therefore causing them to drink, cut and burn themselves, produce bad eating habits, also that girls promote sex more then boys.
Dr. Sax shows that girls are more anxious because they blow things way out of proportion. I agree with this because girls worry more about going to university or college, high school drama, and boyfriends. Boys are one thing that cause a great amount of anxiety for girls. They worry about how they look for that boy, what he thinks of her, how popular he is, if she dated him her popularity status will go way up. “Girls spend a lot of time photo shopping their pictures.” For some weird reason these things stress girls out a lot and they really shouldn’t. Boys don’t really care about those things.
Dr. Sax portrays that being that anxious causes stress relievers like cutting, drinking, and burning themselves. I also agree with this because this causes eating disorders like anorexia. The media has a lot to do with this because it’s telling girls how they should look, dress and act. “Only a minority of girls have diagnosable eating disorders.” In all girls mind they think they are fat because either they want attention, or they have very low self-esteem and they actually think they are fat because people tell them they are. School, the media, and our peers are some of the main causes of anxiety because they all have some kind of influence on you and you take that stuff to heart when someone says it.
Dr. Sax proves that girls are way more sexually active, because they have more to show off. I don’t agree with this but I do at the same time. Girls show this by wearing short skirts and shirts that show a lot of cleavage they are promoting that they want to have sex. “….Girls who are cornering boys, and giving them blow jobs” show that girls will go through great lengths to have sex. Though it may not be all girls who are doing this, a great amount of them are. Oral sex is one of the most popular forms of sex for girls between 12 and 14. Girls initiate sex. Drinking also has something to do with this because everyone knows that when intoxicated its way easier to take advantage of someone. This also causes more teenage pregnancies.
So as you can see Dr. Sax goes in a lot of depth about these subjects and also shows how horribly teenage girls see themselves. This shows that girls have way more anxiety then boys, the reasons for this are: Drinking, Cutting and burning themselves, also how they portray themselves with sex.