Lena Dunham and her Girls Castmates Talk About Sex (in the
City)S  Critics keep referring to Girls, Lena Dunham and Judd
Apatow's upcoming HBO show, as the "new Sex and the City," even
though it doesn't premiere until next month — as if it's
impossible for anyone else to create a show about Manhattan
women that's not about Manolos and Cosmopolitans.  25-year-old
Dunham and her castmates say they're nothing like Carrie et al —
and it's not just because they deign to hang out in Brooklyn —
but that much of Girls will be about women being sexually active
in NYC. Check out this segment from a NYT Magazine roundtable
discussion between Dunham, Jenni Konner, an executive producer,
and co-stars Jemima Kirke, Allison Williams and Zosia Mamet:
DUNHAM Half the time when I'm talking about something else I'm
just trying to maneuver into a conversation about sex.
Especially in your early 20s sex is a playground in which you're
working out a lot of your insecurities, and people are in some
ways in the most honest in those