Forever by Judy Blume is a simple story about a young high school girl who falls in love, has her first sexual experience, and then breaks up with her lover. Katherine is a level-headed average high school girl who experiences the feelings and events that most high school girls feel with their first sexual encounter, she is afraid of getting pregnant, venereal diseases, learning about intercourse and feelings of intimacy.
Forever is an important story, because it is not sensational story about sex, it is a realist story about a normal sexual experience and how a young woman can learn about love and sex. It is controversial, because it is explicit in its description of sex and the experience is pleasurable and does not end in a catastrophic pregnancy or disease. The story does show all of the pressures that Katherine has to deal with from her family, friends and her lover and her decision to wait for weeks after he initially wants to, to have sex.
Blume, J. (2007). Forever. New York: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing.
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