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Sex, social media and the pressure on teenage girls

Teenagers today have never known a world without smartphones and social media.

04/04/2016 | Rating NR

PBS News Hour

Sex, social media and the pressure on teenage girls

Clip: 4/4/2016 | 7m 3s

Teenagers today have never known a world without smartphones and social media.

Teenagers today have never known a world without smartphones and social media. But how is this technology influencing the way they view themselves and the world? That’s the question journalist and author Nancy Jo Sales set out to answer in her new book, “American Girls.” Sales joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the intersection of puberty, pornography and peer pressure in the Internet age.

04/04/2016 | Rating NR

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