Why do girls scream at boybands?

Even post-Savile, no one seems to wonder what's going on when teenage girls greet womanhood with a fit of uncontrolled caterwauling at One DirectionOne Direction are currently the most popular boyband in the world, apparently. Their job is to stroll about on a stage with shiny hair and nice, clean clothes, warbling cliched inanities while binders full of girls in their early teens scream at them. Well, it's a living.The ritual whereby young girls scream at male stars has been a part of youth c...

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