Promiscuities -

: The story follows a woman named Diane who uses prescription pills to suppress repressed, "pitch-black" memories and "carnal neurosis".

The book functions as both a memoir and a cultural exposé. It details the transition from girlhood to womanhood for a generation that faced a new landscape of explicit adult imagery and contradictory sexual pressures. Promiscuities

: The "story" follows a group of adolescent girls (including a younger Wolf in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury) as they discover their desires, navigate "forbidden crushes," and experience the often-unspoken dark side of coming-of-age, including sexual violence and abortion. Other Versions : The story follows a woman named Diane

: Wolf argues that society lacks healthy rites of passage for girls, leaving them to navigate "extraordinary and contradictory" pressures where they must compete with pornography while still facing old stigmas. : The "story" follows a group of adolescent