Media Contact:

Lori Bittenbender
LB Public Relations
lori at lbpublicrelaltions dot com
972-955-4730

Biography

Download Photos

• Carol Liebau
• "Prude" Book Cover

Recent Press Releases

• Carol Platt Liebau speaking at Girl Scouts "We Believe In Girls" Summit 2008

Story Topics / Expert Commentary:

Cultural Commentary

• The "Sexification" of American Culture
• Fighting Back Against the Sex-Saturated Culture
• The Culture's Challenge to America's Girls -- and the Parents Raising Them
• From Black Canary Barbie to "Gossip Girl": Lessons the Culture Teaches Girls
• From Fashion to Film: The "Sexiness" Imperative
• Teen Pregnancy
• Gloucester, Mass., pregnancy pact (teens deliberately getting pregnant)
• Jamie Lynn Spears and other young celebrities becoming single mothers
• Abstinence & Abstinence Education
• Sex Education
• Modesty and the Benefits of Character Education
• The Economic Toll on America of a Sex-Obsessed Culture
• Damaging Effects of “Do Me”Feminism
• The New Sexual Feminism
• Sexual restraint vs. sexual self-expression
• Prude: The New Badge of Honor
• Interests and skills that serve as sources of self esteem for young girls
• How unplanned pregnancies affect future relationships

Political Analysis & Commentary

• Presidential election 2008
• US Senate campaigns, 2008
• The Barack Obama I Knew
• Women in the Political Process 2008
• A New Agenda for Conservatives
• Rescuing the GOP

In The News:

Television 

Networks:

• "The Morning Show With Mike & Juliet"
• "Inside Edition"

PBS:

• "To the Contrary"

Fox News Channel:

• "Hannity & Colmes"
• "The Big Show With John Gibson"
• Assorted Morning and Weekend News blocks

CNN:

• Political analyst on assorted news blocks

CNN INTERNATIONAL:

• "Your World Today"

MSNBC:

• "Morning Line with Alex Witt"
• Political analyst on assorted news blocks
• "Nachmann"

CNBC:

• "The Dennis Miller Show"

Fox Business Channel

CBN

• "Newswatch"

Local

• KARK, 4 (NBC) Arkansas Matters

Newspapers

• The Sunday Times (London), "Where Have All The Real Men Gone?"
• Reuters, "'Sex and the City' for teens?  Critics slam 'Gossip Girl'"
• Daily Oklahoman, "Cultures often clash when parents, students decide what's appropriate to wear"
• Belfast Telegraph, "Too Much, Too Young"
• Sydney Morning Telegraph (Australia), "Beauty myth: sexy better than clever"
• The Telegraph (UK),  "Soon, being a freak will be height of ambition"
• The Herald-Sun (Australia), "Girls tempted by sex and celebrity"
• The Sunday Times (London), "Ladies in Waiting"
• The Telegraph (UK),  "A day with the wannabes"
• The Daily (London), "Intellect, talent and character? Young women these days just aspire to be 'sexy'"
• The Telegraph (UK),  "Girls 'being brainwashed to be promiscuous'"
• The Daily Telegraph (Australia), "Girls just wanna be pretty"
• The Daily Mail (London),  "Girls would rather look pretty than have brains"
• The Scotsman, "Girls taught to value sex over achievement and intelligence,"
• The Guardian (London), "Today's girls prefer to look sexy rather than be clever"
• The Age (Australia), "Tila Tequila's got a lot of bottle and squirm"
• Brisbane Times (Australia), "Meet Tila Tequila, MySpace's Queen of Sleaze"
• New York Post, "In My Library: Carol Platt Liebau"

Internet Interviews, Mentions and Podcasts 

• Review on Vegas International MRNYC MySpace Page
• Jezebel.com, "Tweenage Wasteland”
  http://jezebel.com/tag/prude%7C-how-the-sex_obsessed-culture-damages-girls/
• National Review Online (interview), "Sex In High School"
• ModestlyYours.net, "New Book Out: 'Prude'"
• Betysblog.com, "On Being a Prude," interview on "It Takes a Parent with Betsy Hart"
• Right Wing News, "An Interview with Carol Platt Liebau"
• Blog Talk Radio, "Who's a Prude?" (interview)
• OurMedia.org, "Interview with Carol Platt Liebau"
• Lifesitenews.com, "Britain's 'Culture of Promiscuity' sees nearly 400,000 new STD Cases"

Reviews

• The American Spectator, "Bad Girls" Katherine Boswell
• Culture and Media Institute, "A Book For Cultural Warriors" Colleen Raezler
• Australian Literary Review, Rachel Hills on Culture
• TheFlashReport.org, "The Downfall of 'Do-Me Feminism" Jill Buck
• DiscerningReader.com, "Prude" Tim Challies
  

  CowleyPress.com, "Proudly Prude" Liz Potter