Can I tell you something...

And not have you laugh at me?
At the ripe age of 13 years old (I'm guesstimating here(guesstimating is a legit word as nothing is being underlined by red zig-zags right now. except for zig and zags.)) I encountered my first Forever 21 store. I had just moved back from California, where the nearest mall was not nearly near enough to call the nearest mall. I was traipsing through the mall thinking I was entirely cooler than I actually was with a good friend of mine when we came to the store. When she started to walk in I audibly gasped. My 13 year old mind thought that the store was for people who were 21+ (it's safe to say that I did not enter my first Spencer's store until I was 15, and even then would go nowhere near the back of the store.)
So when I was watching one of my TiVoed episodes of Tyra, an episode about teenage sexcapades, I audibly gasped again. I do a lot of things a lot of the time, but audibly gasping is not on that list.
I was so shocked at what I was hearing from the mouths of these children (they could barely be called teenagers) that I had to stop what I was doing so I could vociferously watch the show.
12 year olds having threesomes? I wouldn't let Barbie and Ken be naked in the same room at 12 (yes, I still played with Barbies at 12. although if asked at age twelve, I would vehemently deny such a suggestion.)
I wasn't a sheltered child, but I was raised to believe that sex was for TWO people who are in love and committed to one another. Where in the world were these parents?
Later in the show they brought the parents out, who had been listening in the back. I again balked when Tyra and the Specialist rebuked a mother for telling her daughter that she was in trouble. True, it was amazing that the child admitted what she did so openly knowing that her mother was listening backstage but that child clearly needs some sort of discipline in her life.
It was mentioned that these girls were merely acting out of each generation's quicker development. Honestly, if I could be 13 again right now I would still choose to be the dork who thought that Forever 21 was for people only in their twenties.