Hookup culture, dating apps destroying teen girls self-esteem, says author offering a New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

Coming of age sexually as a 21st century girl is an excruciating task.As if sex and love aren’t confusing enough, girls today need to deal with rampant hookup culture, the hellscape of dating apps, and an increasingly pornified society.That’s where Louise Perry would like to step in and offer some help.

In her book “A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century” Perry speaks directly to 15- to 17-year-old girls about why she believes progressive feminism is shortchanging them.“The main thing that I took away from the writing process is how poorly we’ve served young people as a culture,” Perry told The Post.She hopes her book will help young women today avoid making the mistakes of their millennial predecessors, many of whom now regret spending their 20s dating casually and sleeping around.“I’m not preaching abstinence per se,” Perry explained.“I’m actually saying, honestly, you’ll be happier in retrospect to just skip that whole part of the progressive life narrative.

“It’s not a compulsory adventure you have to go through in your twenties.You could simply not, and actually you would live a happier life for it.”The book, out March 10, is a teenaged adaptation of Perry’s previous book “The Case Against The Sexual Revolution,” per popular demand from parents desperate to get her message through to their daughters. “[Young women] have been denied the guidance of mothers, not because their actual mothers are unwilling to offer it, but modern feminism has encouraged them not to listen [to them],” she writes.Certain cultural references are tailored for the age group, for instance Perry explains who sex icons Marilyn Monroe and Hugh Hefner are to a teen audience who might not actually know.

The language in this updated version is also simplified and some graphic details about sex have been toned down. But it still comes with a heavy dose of reality checks, such as: “While the 1950s ‘angel of the house’ hid her apron, the mo...