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Yeah! The baby-boomers were chaste as the wind-driven snow!

Actually some of us were and some of our children are. Shock of all shocks!

Yeah! The baby-boomers were chaste as the wind-driven snow!
Actually some of us were and some of our children are. Shock of all shocks!

Yep, I was 20 and a virgin, so naive it was awful. Unfortunately, later on, after I was divorced, I was pretty wild, and I guess I thought I was pretty cool at the time. Now that I am pretty settled again, it makes me shudder every time I think about it. Just the opposite of people who get their wildness out of their systems before they settle down. I was such an innocent, and got kinda wild later on. Never did do drugs, though. Tried a joint twice, and my only impression was "this hurts my throat, why would anyone do it?" So now I'm not too interested in sex anymore, but I do like my wine. Still, I was always the most naive one in my circles - I remember someone who acted surprised that I didn't do drugs - "well, you're in the music business, I just assumed that you did...."

Yes, but it's not much of a reference point to make this dopey statment:

The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past.

The high rates extending 'even to women born in the 1940's' cannot be used to 'challenge perceptions that people were more chaste in the past' because absolutely everyone knows that the post-war baby-boom generation is quite proud of being the most promiscuous generation in history, they invented premarital sex and rock and roll--just ask them.

It's a stupid statement, but illustrative of the dopey boomer bias in the drive-by media.

Good for you, BTW.