Fresh from the success of The Beauty Myth , cultural muckraker Naomi Wolf here trains her sights upon women`s sexual rites of passage. For her research she relies upon her own memories, and those of her friends, of coming into womanhood during the 1970s and early 1980s--after The Pill and before AIDS. Wolf concentrates on the physical and psychological changes that girls experience between 10 and 21, and the resulting limitations brought on by these changes. Her broad exploration of adolescent female eros includes not only the games, erotic dreams, and fantasies of first love, but the accompanying rites of initiation, virginity (and what its loss means), birth control, abortion, pornography, and sexual violence.