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Presently, in my Adolescent Psychology course, we have been addressing development and how it socially affects girls. Early development makes them especially prone to sexuality and deviance as their “matured” appearance pushes them into deviant behaviors (they are more prone to adolescent pregnancy) and makes them seek an older peer group. In response to this, it is true how they are envied and ridiculed and even harassed by their own age group. Yet what about girls who develop late or develop “less sexualized” bodies? Society embraces the appearance of thin, large breasted women as attractive, so ridicule is given to those with small breasts and larger bodies as well. It’s like there’s no perfect form for the female adolescent, since it is portrayed as there will always be something wrong with her, and I can see this as having a definite impact on self esteem issues. But could small breasts or “unappealing” body types go as far as lessen their sexuality? It’s been socially accepted for people to appeal to a certain body type, so attraction from others could diminish, but could it go as far as to impact their personal sexuality as well? I’m intrigued about this, since I’ve never been the object of ridicule in junior high or high school. I was definitely an early developer, where I was the tallest - above both boys and other girls - for the longest time, but I’ve always been anything but “busty.” More often than not, people confused me as a boy in my adolescence, so I am wondering what sort of social impact that had on me, if at all. Personally, I feel fine and quite happy with my appearance, and I even consider myself lucky, since I never felt sexualized pressures of attraction from the opposite sex.