The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation's Fight Over Its Future

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Equal parts investigative reporting and cultural criticism, The Second Coming is a look at the sex lives of young adults in post-Roe America.

As a college student, award-winning journalist Carter Sherman, along with several members of her sorority, was interviewed by a writer eagerly looking for salacious details about their sex lives. But the sex the girls were havingor the lack thereofseemed disappointing, and they didnt make the books final cut. A decade later, young Americans are still having less sex than past generations, and the sex they are having has become infinitely more complicated. Carter, who has spent years traveling the country and reporting on gender and sexuality, wanted to find out why.

Based on more than one hundred interviews with teenagers and young adults, activists, and experts, The Second Coming is a comprehensive investigation into how (mis)education, the internet, and politics are changing the ways in which young people experience sex, love, and relationships. From Dating with Dignity seminars at the National Pro-Life Summit to abortion clinics crowded with young people to school board battles over what students are allowed to read, think, and feel, we meet folks from both sides of the aisle who are well-informed, empowered, and active (even if not always sexually). And as measures are taken to limit young peoples access to rights and resources, they are fighting back.

In the tradition of Rebecca Traister and Lisa Taddeo, The Second Coming is a nuanced exploration of how life outside the bedroom directly impacts everything within it, and the breaking point as a nation weve reached as a result.

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"Carter Sherman is like a modern-day explorer, navigating terrain that we desperately need to discover, uncover, and illuminate. The Second Coming exposes profoundly necessary conversations around human sexuality, and Sherman is a guiding lightfor how we can all be more brave, educated, open-minded, and compassionate in building a more hopeful future." -- Chelsey Goodan, youth empowerment speaker and bestselling author ofUnderestimated: The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls

Author Bio

Carter Sherman is a reproductive health and justice reporter atThe Guardianwhose reporting has garnered numerous awards and nominations, including a National Press Club Award, a Scripps Howard Award, and four Emmy nominations. Previously a senior reporter for VICE News, Carter has written for publications likeElle,Ms. Magazine, andLos Angelesmagazine, and been interviewed by outlets like NPRsFresh Air,PBS NewsHour,and MSNBC. Carter lives in New York with her partner.