In all candor - If I were in the middle of a riot with baton-wielding coppers in proximity - I’d grab the nearest female to me and do the same thing. I figger I ain’t got long to live - anyhow.
I’ve seen people with strange sexual triggers all throughout my life. People who are turned on during funerals (very common) people who are turned on during car accidents (VERY common) and people who are turned on by dead corpses.
The idea that chaos triggers a sexual response in people doesn’t surprise me. I don’t think this is a romantic gesture. I do think that it’s normal for the boy’s parents to spin it towards innocence. Who wants to see their young one getting busy in public ?
I have heard it said by combat veterans that there is something about the prospect of losing your life that prods the procreative urge. (See “Goodbye Darkness” by William Manchester...a liberal, but a Marine nonetheless)
Good to see a freeper using the conditional. It’s above the pay grade of our current president.