But it's not a question of simply choose your misery: rash pregnancies or diseased sex. Do young people's lives have to be so fraught?
A pediatrician friend once told me that the adolescent years are historically the healthiest years of a person's life: you're past the childhood infections, not yet into the degenerative diseases and geriatric ills --- there should be little for a pediatrician to attend to except sports injuries, complexion bumps and diet.
Instead we have these young girls and young women stumbling through irreparable life-changing crises, chronic and sometimes fatal infections, long-term hormonal sabotage of their sexual physiology, wildly untimely childbearing, the routine blood-sacrifice of the firstborn child, confusion, cynicism, callousness, depression --- and for what?
The Glorious Sexual Revolution! By no means a bloodless revolution, and by no means a victimless crime.
We (the adult generation) have turned adolescence into a non-stop health crisis. And the sex isn't even about love anymore. Remember sweet love? Now it's practically an expectorant function --- with the girls playing the part of the spittoon.
Free love isn’t free.