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‘Dear Girlfriend...’: Constructions of Sexual Health Problems and Sexual Identities in Letters to a Teenage Magazine

Sue Jackson

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Advice columns in teenage magazines provide space for young women to both write and read about representations of issues that teenage girls may grapple with in their everyday lives. Issues related to sexuality appear frequently in these pages. This article examines letters about sexual health issues written to the advice columns of Girlfriend, an Australasian teen magazine. Using a Foucauldian poststructuralist analysis, the article asks how sexual health problems are being constructed by writers and the magazine doctor, and how young women’s sexual subjectivities are being drawn through their positioning in the various discourses mobilized in the texts. Analyses suggest glimmerings of plurality in sexual subjectivities, dominance of the ‘coital imperative’ in constructions of sexuality, and emphasis on discourses of risk and danger versus pleasure.

Key Words: problem pages • sexual health • sexuality • teen magazines • young women

Sexualities, Vol. 8, No. 3, 282-305 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1363460705049577
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