Magazines provide many opportunities for teens to reflect and investigate their sexuality. In particular, sex advice and stories in magazines allow teens to understand personal sexual issues they might be experiencing in a healthier light. Post-feminist attitudes became very popular in teen magazines, with both male and female readers, in part because before the feminist movement, women were never seen as having as much sexual desire as men and women generally did not feel comfortable expressing their sexual attributes. or sexuality. In this essay I will examine three studies by the same author “Sue Jackson,” involving textual analyzes of problematic pages, interviews with magazine staff, and focus groups with magazine readers (“Dear Girlfriend” 286). Each article examines letters written in the advice pages of an Australasian teen magazine, Girlfriend, regarding sexual desire and sexual health issues. This essay will explain how teen magazines express post-feminist culture and thus can contribute to messages about safe sex in advice pages/letters. Over the years, sex has become more visible among teenagers because there are a vast majority of different media uses that provide understanding of sex to the younger generation. Currie found that young women were drawn to magazines by a desire to "know themselves as adolescents and to solve everyday problems" (154). Sexual information in magazines has changed over the years, but it still reflects post-feminist attitudes. Most YA magazines feature an advice page in each monthly issue responding to letters that girls, in particular, have sent regarding their personal issues, problems and concerns that are found in the middle of the paper..... . men. in society. Works Cited: Crooks, Robert L. Our Sexuality. Cengage Learning, 2005. (look at reference again) Currie, Dawn. Girl talk: Teen magazines and their readers. University of Toronto Press, 1999. Jackson, Sue. “I'm 15 and I desperately want sex”: “Making” and “Undoing” desire in Letters to a Teen Magazine. » Feminism and Psychology 15.3 (2005):295-313. Jackson, Sue. “Dear Girlfriend…”: Constructions of Sexual Health Issues and Gender Identities in Letters to a Teen Magazine. “Sexualities 8.3 (2005): 282-305. Preston, Marilyn. ““very very risky”: definition of sexuality and teaching and learning responsibilities by sex education teachers. American Journal of Sex Education 8.1-2 (2013): 18. Westrupp, Elizabeth, and Sue Jackson. “Sex, postfeminist and pre-adolescent popular culture.” » Sexualities 13.3 (2010): 357-76.