[buwaya]

Yep, thats pretty much true.

The only difference today is that the proportion of kids going to college is much higher, and the fact that better than half of them are girls.

In the old days it was mainly wealthy young men who did a bit of wallowing in depravity.

The consequences of this sort of thing for so many people are uncertain.

[Palladin]

Back in the fifties, every college town had their local preferred house of ill repute. For Dickinson, in Carlisle, it was Bessie's House.

Nowadays, the boys don't even have to pay--their female classmates are so easy. And these girls are not monitored for STD's, as would be the case in a well-run whore house.
They've been sexually active since eighth grade, and bring a passel of diseases with them to campus.

Homeschooling until 22 isn't such a bad idea.

[GSlob]

"In the old days it was mainly wealthy young men who did a bit of wallowing in depravity."
Hmm, IIRC, 12th -13th centuries students were so wealthy that they continuously complained about being penniless (see Hugh the Primate of Orleans' poetry on the subject). They - or at least enough of them - were begging in the streets, in between drinking and whoring binges, according to that same Hugh and others after him who left the written testimony. From then to the times of Chaucer and later Villon not much changed, and so it has continued even unto this day, with minor variations. Thus we are looking at an ancient tradition, with pedigree about as long as mortarboards and gowns at students' graduation. Probably, that's how it should be.