they do certain things just so they're the latest news in the lunchroom. >> reporter: wow.arty? >> sometimes it's not. sometimes people will get a, wow, you got to make out with him? >> reporter: we gathered a group of four teenage girls, 15 to 17 to talk frankly about teen sex. they shared their thoughts with two older women, who admit they were once loose girls. the conversation centered around kerry cohen's new book "dity little secrets" which looks at teen girls and their sex lives. give me a sense of how television portrays teen girls as sex-crazed? >> in the media. that's okay. that's everybody's life and everybody should be acting like that. >> every image they see of girls, whether it be a magazine a movie, a tv show is that a girl has to be sexually attractive. and that's what makes her worthwhile. she has to be sexy. as soon as she acts on that as soon as she acts sexually in some way, then she's called a slut or ostracized in some way. it's the confusing mixed message that hurts a girl's self-esteem. >> reporter: what do you think a girl is after, when she become