I was a 14-year-old girl in 1982. I had never heard of AIDS. I wasn't sexually active, but I thought of myself as reasonably well-informed. I paid attention to public controversies. (I had, for instance, heard of "date rape.") The phrase "have a bad reputation," sounds like something my mother would have said; I don't remember if my classmates would have said "slut" or something else.
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