Amber Cole Controversy

It's been quite the day here at Ology—traffic over the Amber Cole fiasco has peaked, and yet this isn't exactly the sort of thing we want to celebrate. The controversy surrounding the 14-year-old teenager who was recorded on video performing oral sex on a male peer has brought extremely differing opinions to the table about middle school and high school students and their sexual behaviors: should Amber be subject to this sort of scrutiny? Is this something that is now "typical" for girls her age?

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Discussion of these events reached an all-time high with the now infamous "Leave Amber Cole Alone" video, where another young woman pleaded—though comically—for the backlash to stop. It's brought even more attention to a growing debate, and we've been paying attention to our readers' comments on the issue all day long. Here is just a sample of your extremely varied thoughts on Amber Cole:
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"No, we should not leave her alone. SHE CHOSE to go outside DURING SCHOOL with a boy and give him oral sex KNOWING his friends were watching....what did she think was going to happen?" - apa
"There is no acceptable reason to bully someone, and it is not the job of strangers to try to tell her what consensual acts she and her boyfriend should or should not do. Her parents need to talk to her about this." - Rini Thomas
"Parents are not teaching their daughters, matter of fact, children period how to be young ladies/gentlemen anymore. When you slack on spending QUALITY time with your children and educating them, they attend to stray off into this destructful world. Maybe if she had some kind of after school activity (basketball, cheerleading, band, HOMEWORK) something, then she wouldn't have had time to be caught up in scandals like this." - Mundaj23
"Who gives a f*ck? Over here in Texas every time I check my Facebook, there's a new girl who's preggo and they're not even 18 yet." - Jairoh54
"Everyone who has watched this video is watching CHILD PORNOGRAPHY." - Jass Huf
"There's a difference between making normal teenage mistakes and this. What she did was totally stupid. I get that young people make mistakes, but at the age of 14 you know what's right and wrong. Giving someone oral sex at school while people watch and videotaping it is wrong, and she knew it. But it's pretty sad to gain a reputation like this at such a young age." - sick_girl
"I don't even know why this is a big deal. Girls do what they wanna do. It's her life, let her live it." - Brianna_negron
"The whole situation is absolutely ridiculous. People on social networks are making this bigger than what it really needs to be. Fact: yes she is 14 and should not be engaging in such sexual acts. But she did and you can't change it now. This is also a fact: millions of young girls out here are doing the exact same things, if not worse and no one has put them out there or bothered them for that matter. She did not know she was being recorded. And truth is it isn't really any of our business to reprimand her." - Shadaesweeney
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