ressures young women, like herself, had to face. Knowing that “in a land where booty calls were ‘in’ and waiting until the third date to hold hands was ‘out’”…and she was “definitely out (pg.161)” placed Keesa above the rest of her peers. She felt she was the “last lone soldier (pg.161)”, and for good reason she probably was. Keesa was overcoming what most women are victims of. Young women find themselves constantly having to deal with the pressures of living up to the standards of what everybody is doing and keeping a good reputation, all at the same time. These women are subjecting themselves to the same issues that Fiona Stewart addresses in her paper. She feels that "the technologies of reputation pervade every area of young women's lives..." and "that these technologies may have serious implications for the ways in which safe sex practices are, or rather are not adopted by young heterosexuals (pg. 374)". Stewart uses the terminology "technology" to describe the ways in which young women are subjected to the pressures of peer's, and the effect of these on their social behavior (pg. 375). To discover how these so called technologies affect young women, Stewart used the findings from a three-year study, particularly from one of eight focus groups as part of a study concerning Australian teenage women and sex. The findings from the groups were used in developing a questionnaire that was administered to 300 young women in state high schools on these issues. The girls who participated in the study were 25, sixteen and seventeen year-olds, Anglo-Australians, who went to lower income government secondary schools. Stewart felt these girls were helping "to contribute towards the production of new insights about young people's lives and their sexual health status (pg. 373)". The girls only supported the hypothesis that Stewart possessed, by showing that the "cultura...
