Marissa Miley is the coauthor of Restless Virgins: Love, Sex, and Survival at a New England Prep School. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and has worked for Harvard University and The Atlantic. Miley lives in New York City, where she is working on a second book of nonfiction.

Blog Entries by Marissa Miley

Teenage Wasteland? Only If We Don't React

Posted June 5, 2008 | 05:36 PM (EST)


Once again, the alarm has sounded. Here's a novel idea for this time around: Let's actually react to the noise.

Yesterday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its biannual Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance data and revealed that across the nation, teens' condom use has flat-lined since...

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Roe v. Wade Awakening

Posted January 22, 2008 | 04:52 PM (EST)


The YouTube video is only three minutes and eighteen seconds long, but it's enough to make even the most casual feminist drop chin to the floor in horror, convinced that centuries of progress have become undone.

In it, a pale, mop-haired young man named Will Albino takes to an...

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