Youth: Hunt of the Sun

"I like it down here," says Gregg Fawthrop, 18. "There aren't any parents, no one to tell me what to do. You can blow your mind, drink, do anything you like." "Down here" happens to be Ocean City, located on an 8½-mile-long island off the coast of southern New Jersey. But Fawthrop could just as easily have been talking about a dozen other beach communities in the U.S. where high school kids, college students and recent graduates congregate on summer weekends and vacations for sun, sand, suds and sex. It's all there, too....

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