"The 'Grease' story, however, is not just the stuff of movies, but of real life. Though good girls turning bad has always been fodder for an E! Hollywood story, no such show was around in my youth. Therefore, with much more frequency and higher intensity, stars like Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus communicate to our children through their lives that to remain popular, one must shed one’s innocence. Being a virgin is winsome while you’re young, ridiculous past 18."

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