I'm a parent of one teen girl and guardian of another and this horrifies me. It doesn't surprise me though. Although it focused on entirely the wrong things, since the decline of religious teaching in school, there is no one putting an alternative view or counteracting the commercial reach of porn. Standard sex education isn't cutting it that's for sure.
As someone who has gone from being cripplingly shy and lacking in self confidence as a teen and is now fairly confident in their mid-fifties, I would love to be able to counsel young women starting out and give them the benefit of my experience and just talk to them about how things work in RL. It makes me want to set up a women's group which has the sole purpose of talking to teen girls, reminding them of their self worth, boosting their confidence, telling them it's ok to say no, giving them knowledge and tools which they can use to develop their own autonomy and independence from men. They are being left to stumble through this maze of conflicting expectations on their own, ill prepared and lacking in knowledge At that age you feel so alone. There is just so much that isn't being said or discussed. Simple things like it's ok to expect basic respect and affection and it's ok to walk away if it's not forthcoming, to how to negotiate sexual encounters and create and stick to your own boundaries.
However, my current experience tells me that teen girls and young women would run screaming from a bunch of fifty year old women trying to tell them, as they would perceive it, what to do. We are probably the last people they want to hear from. It needs to be done peer to peer.
Are any young people's groups or organisations doing this?