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Posted: 2015-10-22T21:40:33Z | Updated: 2015-10-22T21:40:33Z
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Welcome to a special Halloween edition of Middlebrow, please listen to some spooky music while you read about teen sexuality.

Know what's so weird? Teens! Like, they are just some exotic species only loosely related to all of us non-teens. They talk in emojis and they have so many feelings and they know how to use Snapchat. But more terrifying than all of that put together is this: Puberty.

It can be hard to remember the experience of pubescence, especially for people in writer's rooms working on pretty much anything besides "Diary of a Teenage Girl." Teenage sexuality, especially female teenage sexuality, is treated as some mutant, removed thing in pop culture, often ignored, trivialized, or -- worst of all -- exploited.

There are so few intelligent meditations on the tricky realities of coming of age. That is, outside of the teen horror sub-genre. With all the lazy, uncomplicated iterations we see grounded in reality, some of the most striking representations of teen sexuality are supernatural.