Stephan: Yet another self-inflicted wound. I get so tired of seeing these negative trends become more and more powerful. I know there are thousands upon thousands of people working in small projects to make things better. And they do, locally. But the overall trends continue to be negative, and many of them focus on what we are doing to our own bodies, and the bodies of our children. And it isn't just women, and girls. Males have been experiencing decreasing libido, and lower sperm counts.
One day last year when her daughter, Ainsley, was 9, Tracee Sioux pulled her out of her elementary school in Fort Collins, Colo., and drove her an hour south, to Longmont, in hopes of finding a satisfying reason that Ainsley began growing pubic hair at age 6. Ainsley was the tallest child in her third-grade class. She had a thick, enviable blond-streaked ponytail and big feet, like a puppy’s. The curves of her Levi’s matched her mother’s.
‘How was your day?
