[Knute]

Won't they be safe if they only use a condom? (G!)

What part of Biology 101 don't these kids understand? The risk of life threatening disease doesn't enter their minds? All for another hole through their eyelid?

[Just another Joe]

The risk of life threatening disease doesn't enter their minds?

No, it doesn't.
Did you REALLY think about life threatening diseases when you were 13 or 14?
If you did you were exceptional. I know I didn't.

Of course, I never wanted a tat or a piercing either.

[gridlock]

Back when I was a kid, we used to do the girls' ears with a needle, a candle, an ice cube and a potato. We were not so stupid that we would have used the same needle on two different people, not even in 1975.