[GraniteStateConservative]

And, of course, keep treating teens like mindless hormones with feet utterly incapable of self-control.

For thousands of years, teens were expected to have intercourse.

[The Iguana]

"For thousands of years, teens were expected to have intercourse."

Sure - in the context of marriage.

Yet extramarital sex by teens did not jump appreciably when the average age of marriage rose beyond the teens in the 19th and early 20th centuries in most of the West.

The real rise came in the 1960's and after.