Shaping Teen Sexuality: Who is really responsible? On a typical Thursday afternoon, at the corner coffee house, a nineteen year old bartender leans against the bar watching, and listening to her patrons. The atmosphere is calm and quiet as two different groups of females discuss their boyfriends, lovers, dating rituals, and other feminine problems. She looks a little closer, listens a little harder, and finds striking similarities. Right off the surface she notices that the …showed first 75 words of 1644 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1644 total…build a child’s self esteem. The media should begin to practice more ethical approaches to grabbing buyers. There is after all, no need for “adult” fashion to be projected onto children’s’ clothing lines. Most importantly, all three sources, parents, school, and media, should work together in an attempt to shift attention away from a teen’s focus on the outward physical sexuality, and set the focus of the internal beauty of their sexuality.