Posted on 01/24/2005 10:01:51 PM PST by paltz
Wasn't this done once before? I'm pretty sure that it was... SNL, with Peter Fonda.
The diagram does not distinguish 'romantic' from 'sexual'. Not all the relationships were likely to include sex.
I can see one chickie doin' 5 different guys...and I see a lesbo relationship! And a triangle!
Yikes!! Lots of spit (and other stuff) swappin'!
A few years ago, PBS' Frontline had a very scary program about a syphilis outbreak among a group of teenagers in an upper middle class suburb of Atlanta.
"The Lost Children of Rockdale County"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/georgia/
There's a link to a transcript of the show on that page.
The scientific study of the outbreak, with a similar diagram, is here:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/georgia/outbreak/details.html
Some guys can make that metrosexual thing work, I guess. Not for me, though ;)
Some times are purer than others. In an age in which birth control was almost nonexistent and either syphilis or pregnancy could result in death, it was easier to say no. Some studies of birth dates during colonial times show that a surprisingly high percentage of babies born in New England in the eighteenth century were apparently seven-months' babies--that is, as soon as the girl figured out that she had been knocked up, she and her boyfriend rushed to the altar.
The incidence of these purportedly "premature" babies drops during the Victorian period, as society became more structured and reacted against the license often seen in the eighteenth century and Regency period. But the letters and diaries of the time show that there was a certain amount of fooling-around going on. A physician several years ago assembled quite a bit of documentation about sexuality during the years of the Civil War, and it showed (among many other things) that there was still an ideal that young ladies should remain pure until marriage, and chaperones encouraged this. Engaged couples had quite a bit of slack and apparently many people winked if they had sex, though it seems not to have been something to brag about.
So all in all, yes, people did have better values about teenage sexuality at certain times in history. It's not a constant. It does show that abstinence and restraint are actually possible, if adults help kids.
Not necessarily. We don't know frequency and we don't know about tuples. And the reporting is suspect.
JUST SAY NO!!!!!!!!
I echo your entire statement. My kids are on notice about doing any hanky-panky during high school. We can't afford, quite honestly, the cost of birth control OR them bringing a child into the world at this time. I also try to keep my kids VERY busy with extracurriculars as competitive gymnasts. By the time they get home from their practices (5 times a week), they barely have enough time to eat and do homework, much less "date". Quite honestly, in this day and age, it's preferable - especially considering the report out of this school. Bored kids find ways to get into trouble and this report indicates that.
Anyway, I guess you could record it as two separate acts if you encountered such a thing...
And what about the guys who paired up with him? Aren't they asking any questions? This girl is a walking STD waiting to happen (if it already hasn't......).
BTW, that's a GUY (in blue) paired up with all those girls (in pink). Same question goes about STD's.
Parents - be afraid, be very afraid.
Yeah, me too. I think it's an interesting article.
there is another couple of blue dots next to each other on the big ring.
Ping for later.
It appears to be a woman but what is her condition.
The article indicates that those were the only relationships they counted.
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