Today’s young women have inherited a complicated narrative. Be sexy but not sex-starved; don’t show too much skin but be adventurous in bed; no means no, except for the times it means yes. How do you craft female characters with sexual agency? And how do you write stories about girls claiming ownership of their bodies in a culture that has never prioritized a woman’s pleasure, nor historically upheld the idea of consent? In this panel, four YA authors talk about how and why they write about sex.