Article: Mild, mild life.(Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good)(Book review)

Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good, by Wendy Shalit (Random House, 352 pp., $25.95)

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Baby, baby, it's a wild world--from your earliest days. Recalling a 2002 controversy over Abercrombie and Fitch's marketing of thongs to ten-year-old girls, Wendy Shalit now observes: "Parents no longer debate the merits of thongs for tweens but instead whether I'M TOO SEXY FOR MY DIAPER is a 'healthy' message for an infant girl's onesie."

The mother of a toddler, Shalit begins her new book with an account of a trip to her local toy store--which had disturbing echoes of a red-light district. ...

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