There is no excuse for treating someone badly just because they choose to embrace their sexuality.

I have slut shamed one of my best friends. I grew up in a family where anything having to do with sex was repressed. I always thought that people, girls specifically, were dirty if they did anything sexual. It was in middle school that I met the girl I slut shamed. We were inseparable until our early years of high school when she started hanging out with more and more boys. When she first started doing sexual things I freaked out. I ignored her for weeks because I was convinced she was a "dirty slut." I told all our friends that she was easy. She hadn't even had sex yet and I was calling her these terrible things. It may have come from the way I was raised, but there is no excuse for treating someone badly just because they choose to embrace their sexuality. Our friendship near dissolved completely until recently. She is one of the sweetest people I have ever known. I still feel guilty for treating her like that over nothing.