• LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX, BABY •

I've been in year 11 for almost 8 months now and I have honestly never heard people talk about sex so much in my life.

I get it - most of us are fast approaching the mark of having spent 16 wonderful (and sometimes woeful) years in the world. But what I'm already sick of is the idea that having sex is a right of passage into becoming a young adult. Nowadays, it's almost looked upon shamefully if you're still a virgin by the time you get to college. And why? Because in our generation sex is everywhere.

Yesterday I saw Ariana Grande's new video for One Last Time. I'm not a fan and I don't understand how the video linked but having a look through the comments, all I could see was constant hate because she was wearing more than a bikini? What happened to music being about a voice and not the person's image, body or sex appeal? Why are artists like Gabrielle Aplin and Nina Nesbitt being constantly overshadowed by videos like 'Booty' and 'Anaconda'?

Looking at ads for clothing stores is just the same. Sometimes I can't tell whether they want me to get the top or the model. But, seriously, why all the sex vibes to sell a T-shirt for £7.99? Does the model want me to buy the top... Or take it off them? Am I supposed to stand like that and make those faces when I wear that top? Don’t get me wrong, it is a lovely top, but I think it's time to chill out.

Even though this isn't nearly a battle of the sexes as both men and women are objectified, I, as a woman, feel that the female gender has it tougher (maybe I'm a little biased?). Women are everywhere; selling products for women, but also for men. Strip clubs are the norm and (even though I've never personally watched anything of the sort) porn seems to be the new film industry. We're living in a world where I can't turn on the TV for more than 10 minutes without seeing a very sexualised perfume advert. I'm pretty sure if I buy that perfume some handsome, 20-something French year old with chiseled features isn't going to show up on my doorstep. So what's the point?

You literally can't get away from it. Everything is sexy. Your shampoo is sexy, your dog food is sexy, your salad is sexy. Seriously, what's next? I think we overstepped the line year's ago.

Is it possible that we're overdosing our generation on sex? I don't want to reach 30 and no longer see the appeal, the mystery. Call me a prude but I just don't understand why other things are being overshadowed by every other sexualised thing, and why we can't have one respectable advert that doesn't involve Rosie Huntington-Whiteley with only a bra to be seen. Am I right?