If you ask the typical high schooler about the sexual activity of their peers, they have been effectively brainwashed to think that everyone but them are in stable and enjoyable relationships with each other. And they feel weird and ugly because they are not.
But it’s a lie.
The truth is that the greatest majority of high school students haven’t even been on a date for the first two years of high school, and while they might have had a date for the second two years, it was formal and uncomfortable, more an obligation than anything pleasant.
Yet Lazarus Long’s first rule comes into play with a vengeance: Everyone Lies About Sex.
Certainly there are children who are having regular sex, but for the most part, they are a small minority. And those who are having a lot of sex began when they were very young, with relatives.
In the junior and senior year, the peer pressure to have sex at least once is tremendous. Many who are not fully mature are browbeat into having sex once, and it is embarrassing, painful and is over as quick as it can be.
The problem is twofold. First, very few teachers will look at the messages that are being poured into their students, and will call them out as lies. To a great extent, students want to believe in the lie, so a teacher must have great credibility with them to say otherwise.
But students listen sometimes. And to be told the truth can take a huge burden from their shoulders.
The second problem is that many children are almost adults before they have an extended opportunity to socialize with children of the opposite gender, without the insistent distractions inserted by adults. Granted, socialization should only be done under the watchful gaze of chaperones, but it desperately needs to be done.
If dogs are raised so that they are not socialized with other dogs, they see other dogs as their enemies. Why should children be any different with the opposite gender?
Most people assume that children are socialized either in school or in church, but this is not the case, because they are too busy doing other things.
teachers are the culprits often these days
Excellent analysis. And the kids who do get involved in ongoing sexual relationships at that point in their lives are completely unprepared to deal with the psychological ramifications. They are likely to become chronically depressed, addicted, and/or violent. But all of this is considered perfectly normal by the left-wing lunatics who set the tone for public education in this country.
Right on the money.