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“This is what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real.” My home is a cooperative house on the South Side of Chicago.

My freshman year of East Lansing High School in 1981, I was the new girl. I’d recently moved to Michigan from New Mexico so my mother could get her PhD at Michigan State University. I was new, I was poor, I didn’t understand the local weather, and I kept scanning the horizon for mountains that weren’t there. I felt like the ultimate outsider.

Spotted: Downtown SF

It was pretty much the norm for the VMAs: denim, crop tops, butts and boobs.

Bravo. Artists should be into being weird. But maybe not as into being hit?

And upcoming MTV docu-series explores young adults exploring their virginity. Could it help breed a new generation less fixated on sex?

Alright kids, just hold your Judge-y Judy horses for a minute. It's time we stopped demonizing teenage pregnancy.

On this #ThrowbackThursday, we're wondering how the ultra-tantalizing "Pagan Poetry" music video of 2001 stacks up against today's raunch.