INTRODUCTION
The issue of teenage sex is a very controversial one – today’s media culture increasingly fetishizes youth, to the point where sex symbols and fashion models appear younger and younger every year. Young people are learning more and more about sex earlier in life, and thus are engaging in it at younger ages. This, of course, has given rise to teenage pregnancies and STDs, as they are becoming more commonplace and less of a controversy than in previous generations, and thus less readily avoided. Despite the glorification of teen pregnancy in shows like Maury Povich and films like Juno, having an ...