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"Warning: Shy readers look away + spoiler alert! The latest episode of The Secret Life of the American Teenager introduced a whole new shameless plotline to viewers and perhaps a creative way to keep teenage girls from getting pregnant Storked! The main character, Goody Two-shoes Grace, starts a club called Just Say Me. Its motto: &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t have sex with other people. Just have sex with yourself.&amp;quot; Interesting.Megan Park, who plays Grace, told E! News that she thinks people will be shocked by the episode. I was! Silk rose petals on the bed, candles, girl-power music and Grace in a short black nightshirt and robe--she was setting the stage for her solo mission, all right (and making me a little queasy). The show airs at 8 P.M. and has reeled in a cultlike following of tweens and teens. The topic got me thinking about talking to teens about sex as a means to prevent teenage pregnancy--Grace turned down on-again, off-again boyfriend Jack, so maybe ABC Family is on to something. Is talking to teens about good ol&amp;#x27; healthy masturbation the new abstinence? The famous Sex and the City episode where Miranda dishes on the Rabbit, making it a household name, is the first time I ever saw mainstream media introduce such a risky, not-often-talked-about topic in a lighthearted, coffee martini clutch kind of way--to adults, that is. As for tweens watching Secret Life with Mom and Dad, talk about a blushworthy TV moment--especially when Grace reveals to her mom that she may never have sex again (it was that good, woo!). Well, I suppose if tweens watching can handle the fact that the show focuses on a teen mom who got pregnant and lost her virginity in the same night (eeeps!), I assume masturbation isn&amp;#x27;t that taboo. Still, I think the delivery was a little much. What do you think, Storked! readers--is this topic too much for tweens or the 8 P.M. time slot? Did you see the episode? What were your initial thoughts? Are you currently the parent of a teenager? Have you broached the topic of, ahem, masturbation with your teen? How old were you when you lost your virginity? Did your parents have a sex talk with you? Do you own a vibrator? (This incognito one looks like a razor. Cool.) *** Hey moms, want to lose weight and meet Wendy Williams? Click here. *** This teen mom put her baby up for adoption--read how she&amp;#x27;s dealing with it. Teen moms balance baby, school--and BOYS! Celebrity teen mom in the news--for breast-feeding! Oh my! JD and I had a great time on our Disney cruise--check it out here. *** More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering for or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;#x27;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow us on Twitter."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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