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    Defined identities impact female sexualityNowadays, more and more people tend to care and work on social justice, rights women being one of the topics that attract people's attention. Society and women have changed their views on what it means to be a woman in the 21st century. Therefore, nowadays girls in their twenties start to behave differently from the first generations. One of the behaviors becomes ambiguous: female sexuality. In “Selections from Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom,” Leslie Bell argues that neither conflicting directives nor the expectations of others are the primary reason for female sexuality. She makes this claim because the identity a woman has established for herself has a greater impact on female sexuality because it represents who she wants to be. Messages and advice in books, magazines, movies, and television shows seem to tell young women what they “should” do. But these messages are contradictory to each other, which is why these messages confused young women in their twenties when they had not yet understood what they wanted. Bell states that “these contradictory directives leave young women in a bind, and with little help in understanding what they really want” (Bell 27). Young women today receive good training in the academic and professional fields. More and more women are attending university just like men, they know how to be professional and how to develop their careers. However, women in their 20s have a less clear idea of ​​what they want and need in a relationship because directive messages from others are of no help. For example, some of the messages young women receive encourage them to expand their sexual experimentation, while others suggest young women avoid clinging to culture and follow traditions. Because these mixed messages do not provide clear direction, young women may be even more confused after receiving these messages. In fact, a better way to solve the problem is for young women to independently discover what they really want and establish an identity without