Wendy Shalit

About the author: Wendy Shalit is the author of A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue.

While each magazine geared for teens promises to be different, they are all very similar in that they promote and glamorize promiscuity and teen sex. What teens really need is advice on how to set and uphold limits on sexual activity. Teen magazines should concentrate on teaching teens how to develop their full potential rather than how to look and act sexy for the opposite sex.

When you think teen magazines, you probably think of Seventeen, Glamour or YM (Young & Modern). Well, you're way behind the times. These days we have Twist (Bauer Publishing Co.), Girl (Lewit & LeWinter) and even Latingirl (MicroMedia Affiliates), an English-language publication trying to break into the Hispanic teen market. While Twist offers tips on...