When Brookhurst outs her, Phoebe has to deal with threats and vandalism but stands her ground regarding the importance of her work. Phoebe is honest about arousal, the true meaning of consent, and the limitations of her own knowledge when it comes to, for example, queer sexuality, whereas Brookhurst believes that the only permittable sex education is that which emphasizes abstinence. She set about researching and combined her newfound knowledge with her love of journalism to create a blog that received little attention in her small town until it attracted the ire of mayoral candidate Lydia Brookhurst. Phoebe Townsend, 16, was surprised and intrigued at her first sight of a penis two years ago: It was nothing like she expected, and she realized she didn’t know much about sex at all. A high schooler’s pseudonymous blog about sex goes viral when a local conservative politician attacks it.
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