186. A Banned Book, Helping the Next Generation, and Closing the orgasm gap by 2040
Dr. Carrie Leff is a practicing Internist and Pediatrician in Michigan. She is passionate about Adolescent and Women's health. Dr. Leff is on a mission to educate teens about their bodies and to help parents become more comfortable with difficult conversations with their kids. She is the mother of 3 daughters, a professional multi-tasker and a believer in the power of women.\n\nDr. Leff co-wrote Celebrate Your Body 2: The Ultimate Puberty Book for Preteen and Teen Girls in 2019. It is a #1 Best seller in \xa0in Teen & Young Adult Health Books on Sexuality & Pregnancy on Amazon.\n\nWe met at the ISSWSH conference March 2022 in Texas \u2013 we were both giving lectures.\n\n\u201cMommy, I feel like you wrote this book just for me\u201d \u2013 Dr. Leff\u2019s daughter\n\nWhy she wrote this book and created a program about puberty?\n\nHow puberty is like menopause.\n\nShe discusses when puberty starts and what first signs are.\n\nWhat does an all-American puberty education in a public school look like?\n\n\u201cTalking to your kids should be 30 one minute conversations, not one 30 minute conversation\u201d \u2013 Dr. Leff\n\n\u201cOur kids aren\u2019t connecting puberty and sex unless we make that connection for them\u201d \u2013 Dr. Leff\n\nIf you can\u2019t/won\u2019t discuss puberty with your kids then you are teaching them that you aren\u2019t a resource for this information.\n\nI love how you call private parts \u201cpersonal parts\u201d \u2013 why is this important?\n\nSo many middle aged women have body shame \u2013 when does this start?\n\nHow she found out her book was banned.\n\nConsent \u2013 example of trying a shirt on at a store - - so important \u2013 many middle age women don\u2019t practice consent.\n\nHow to close the orgasm gap by 2040 \u2013 her plan\n\nA golden question, \u201chow will you know you are ready to have sex?\u201d\n\nMoms buying teens their first vibrators \u2013 thoughts and her experience\n\nYou didn\u2019t bring up birth control \u2013 when to bring it up, how to bring it up, resources for adults.\n\nYou wrote an op-ed for the Washington post about your book getting banned: \u201cSome parents believe that telling children the truth about sex and our bodies will spoil their innocence. But innocence and ignorance are not the same.\u201d\n\nCelebrate Your Body 2 Book: https://amzn.to/3dLZzc7\n\nhttps://turningteen.com/\n\nhttps://www.instagram.com/drcarrieleff/\n\nDid you get the You Are Not Broken Book Yet? https://amzn.to/3p18DfK\n\nJoin my membership to get these episodes ASAP when they are created and without advertisement and even listen live to the interviews and episodes.\n\nwww.kellycaspersonmd.com/membership\n\nOur podcast sponsor is Bonafide\n\nBonafide products help women embrace the natural changes that occur throughout all phases of life.\n\nDiscount code for 20% off:NOTBROKEN\n\nSales link: https://hellobonafide.com/notbroken\n\n\n--- \n\nSend in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kj-casperson/message\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices