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Trying on sexual lifestyles like the latest fashions? Disregard for traditional sexual morality? Experimenting because they are frustrated with teenage boys? The bisexual teen fad is one that parents and guardians must address with their sons and daughters.

bq.. _”Move over, Ellen DeGeneres, and make way for the younger girls.” That’s the opening line in a recent article by Laura Sessions Stepp that recently appeared in the Washington Post. In “Bisexuality Goes Trendy,” Stepp argues that bisexuality has now become chic among teenage girls._

Compared to Ellen DeGeneres and the older generation of lesbians, Stepp explains that this generation is “way younger” and “way different from what most people think of as lesbians.” They see lesbian or bisexual identity as chic and fashionable—even if they are just passing through a phase.

According to Stepp, this new trend towards “lesbian chic” is apparent in Washington, D.C. and its neighboring suburbs. In 2002, a teacher at Washington’s Coolidge High School grew so frustrated that he began sending students involved in public displays of affection to the principal’s office. The issue was not boy-girl kisses, but girls openly and loudly kissing each other. Of course, Coolidge High School also features a student body that last year chose a lesbian pair as the schools “cutest couple.”

Stepp is not the only observer to notice this trend. In the sexual confusion of postmodern America, teenage girls are now looking for alternative ideas of sexual expression. Some are trying on sexual lifestyles like the latest fashions, with obvious disregard for traditional sexual morality. Indeed, some may be experimenting because they are frustrated with teenage boys.

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