[Dont Mention the War]

So it's all the Internet's fault? I hate to break it to the New York Times, but I had plenty of friends just like this when I was a teen in the 80s. The only difference is that 90% of them had to use landline phones to communicate.

(I use of the word "sluts" in headline in the unisexual sense.)

By the way, the Times couldn't help slutting up the story themselves. This is the cover of today's Magazine:

The photo is a fraud. Those are professional models, not the kids interviewed in the story. I suppose the actual teens just "aren't photogenic enough." (Though I find the two girls in the photo exceptionally unappealing, and the guys sure don't seem to measure up to any physical standard I hoped to achieve as a teenager.)

[El Sordo]

Some days I think the terrorist should win.

I know, I know... I don't relly want that.

But some days....

[cyborg]

The Slimes are so slow.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

The baby boomers strike again.

Between their unwillingness to teach their kids right and wrong, their defense of the President that said 810w j0b$ aren't sex and their own spotty record in regard to marriage and divorce, is it any wonder their children are lost generation like something out of cabaret-era Germany?

In about ten years, once the baby boomers start to die in large numbers, hell is going to get very crowded.

[sharktrager]

I agree with you totally.

All the time on FR I hear how this is all Clinton's fault. I agree it has caused it to be more common because it has made it easier to be brazen about sex, but I graduated high school in '88, and we had kids like this too.

I had a good female friend who discovered she liked sex, and she slept with a few guys. Some people thought she was a slut, but I'll tell you, she used the guys more than they used her. (No, we never...).

I went to a good school in a very conservative small town, and this type of thing doesn't really surprise me. No Hooters...no strip clubs...no adult book stores...none of the things we always hear are to blame. It's not a god thing, but it's not a surprise.

[Dont Mention the War]

Perhaps worth a miscellaneous ping?

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

''Both conservatives and liberals have their respective blinders on when talking about teen sexuality,'' says Milburn, co-author of ''Sexual Intelligence.'' ''I can think of nothing more important than getting in schools and talking about sexual intelligence and healthy relationships, but most conservatives don't want an open and honest discussion about teen sexuality, and they oppose any conversation that doesn't focus on abstinence until marriage. And many liberals will resist any discussion that might touch on the negative consequences of unbridled sexuality. The conversation we need to have with teens is: 'What's the role that sexuality should play in an emotionally healthy person's life? What are the different ways that people can be sexual? What are the potential dangers?' ''

Nice try. Conservatives are not to blame for this. Liberals are reaping (or our children are reaping) exactly what they've sown. It's tragic.

[mlmr]

this is a sad article. I have numerous girls (mostly) who write to me about their hookups and they are all in pain.
Sad.

[litany_of_lies]

''Both conservatives and liberals have their respective blinders on when talking about teen sexuality,'' says Milburn, co-author of ''Sexual Intelligence.'' ''I can think of nothing more important than getting in schools and talking about sexual intelligence and healthy relationships, but most conservatives don't want an open and honest discussion about teen sexuality, and they oppose any conversation that doesn't focus on abstinence until marriage. And many liberals will resist any discussion that might touch on the negative consequences of unbridled sexuality. The conversation we need to have with teens is: 'What's the role that sexuality should play in an emotionally healthy person's life? What are the different ways that people can be sexual? What are the potential dangers?'

Funny how those nutty abstinence-only wait-til-marriage conservatives have the only answer that prevents STDs.

[Lexinom]

Boy: What are you doing other than not talking to me?
Melissa: Nothing at all. . . .
Boy: Wow, you're as bored as I am?!? . . .
Melissa: Booooooooored.
Boy: lol. Yup. Life is good. lol.
Melissa: Freakin' fantastic. Lemme tell ya.
Boy: I wish you lived like next door. . . . It would be so much easier. . . . Like I don't know about you, but I wanna [expletive].
Melissa: U always wanna [expletive].
Boy: True.
Melissa: Haha.
Boy: But that's cuz we've been talking about it and haven't done it. It's built up.
Melissa: That's bc u haven't picked me up yet silly. . . . Well I'm gonna go lay down. U know my number and where I live if things work out soon.
Boy: Hey wait. If I can do you wanna come over?
Melissa: Sure. So just call me.
Boy: Do you have condoms?
Melissa: Yes dear.
Boy: Hold on.
Melissa: I'm holding.
Boy: I can come get you right now if you want.
Melissa: Um gimme a sec. . . .
Boy: O.K.?? I'll come get you now if you're ready. . . .
Melissa: But I'm gonna be boring tonite . . . and I'm just telling u I'm not in the mood for nething but str8-up sex.

Good thing they're able to inflict the death penalty on any children who dare to be conceived as a result of their actions.

God help us, if this is the norm in today's youth... If I EVER find my daughter doing anything like this, I don't know what we'll do... One thing is for sure: She will not be growing up with much TV, which makes this crap seem (and has helped made it become) normal.

It makes me very, very angry, to see the cause of so many societal problems treated in such a cavalier manner.

[Lexinom]

Culture-of-life ping.

(This is a ping list for topics related to the cultural realities that make abortion-on-demand a perceived need in our society. To be added or removed, FReepmail me.)

[SeeRushToldU_So]

We have some local boys that hooked up with friends of one of the sisters of the boys, and they(boys) are facing 10 yrs in jail and being labeled as sexual predators for life.

They were kicked off the baseball team. I don't know if they will be able to play football. All the girls made the varsity cheer squad. No downside for the girls.

By all accounts, and from the mouths of two of the girls mom's, the girls were the aggressors.

Getting head in GA when underage is risky.

FYI Girls 14 Boys 15-16.

[My Dog Likes Me]

The NYT Sunday Magazine once again lives up to my expectations.

Instead of doing a lead story on the war/Memorial Day/WW II Monument, they go with the mall rat B.J. artists. Wonderful.

Did a new Times degenerate write that article or did they just rehire Jayson Blair? Parts of it sound contrived.

[SuziQ]

''But now that it's easy to get sex outside of relationships, guys don't need relationships.''

Just goes to show there's nothing new under the sun. Even my Daddy, God rest his soul, used to comment disapprovingly on the 'free love' of the 60's by saying the attitude of young men would come to be, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?"