Podcast
What Now? with Trevor Noah
The episode highlighted that the title compiled interviews with over 100 young people to examine Gen Z's relationship with sex, shame, and intimacy, showing how fear, politics, and the internet shape their attitudes. The hosts praised its nuance and breadth, noting that it forced listeners to question whose sex is being obsessed over and why. They expressed strong encouragement for everyone to read the book.
Episode: How Shame Became the New Sex Ed with Carter Sherma...
The book compiled interviews with over 100 young people to explore Gen Z's relationship with sex, shame, and intimacy, highlighting how fear, politics, and the internet shape sexual attitudes.
Carter Sherman, reproductive health and justice reporter at The Guardian, who interviewed over 100 young people for her new book. It's called The Second Coming.
What I love about your book is... we'll go through like, you know, all the different topics that you get into in every single one of the chapters.
I appreciate more than anything how nuanced your book is. I don't think there's anyone who wouldn't be seen in this book. And I hope everyone reads it.
We've been looking at your book and it's clear you've forced us to ask the question--who is obsessed with whose sex and why? What does it mean?
You wrote it in the book that the changes in the landscape around sex have added so much anxiety and fear that it is, for young people, easier to opt out.
