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Teen Tramp Trend Is Media Myth

Girls lust after saucy look, but not so hot for sex

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 14, 2008 4:59 AM CDT

(Newser) – High-profile pregnant teens like Bristol Palin and Jamie-Lynn Spears paint a picture of teenage girls run amok with lust, writes Belinda Luscombe in Time. But while “girls seem to have moved from Easy-Bake to easy virtue” in the last generation, Luscombe argues that the... Read full story »

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