High School Musical starlet Vanessa Hudgens - who is currently dating alleged Stinky Boy, Zac Efron - supplied preteen fans with dependable advice on romance and sex in the July/August issue of Cosmo Girl!

“If you really love someone, you shouldn’t have to work at it,” the 19-year-old asserted. “You finish each others’ sentences and have the same sense of humor.”

Proving that she knows how to keep passion alive in her own love life, Hudgens was all smiles after her heartthrob BF walked onto the set.

“When [Vanessa] sees Zac, she runs over and they kiss, oblivious to the dozen of us in the room,” the magazine interviewer noted at the time. “She rubs his stomach, he puts his arm around her - these gestures say more than any statement she could make.”

Vanessa, clearly keeping her adolescent fan base in mind, also encouraged female readers to take it slow with their significant others.                                                                            

“You have to think it through, not just do something spur of the moment,” she cautioned. “So that after it happens you won’t regret it. I think girls can be infatuated with their boyfriends and they have to remember [to put themselves] first.”

If her acting career ever starts to tank, it seems like Hudgens could make a fairly decent living as a youth counselor!

~Carolyn French~