This twerking scandal is just one example of the media’s fascina- tion with stories about wantonly sexual kids in recent years. We have been told that schoolchildren are using sex bracelets to initiate sexual encounters, that junior high schoolers are attending rainbow parties, that high school students are not just sexting but also forming preg- nancy pacts, and so on. But a closer look at these stories may tell us more about what adults fear than about what kids and teens are actually doing sexually. What has us so scared?