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[jfb]

From last week's New York Times Magazine, an article on the dating habits of contemporary teens, or rather non-dating habits.

It's not that teenagers have given up on love altogether. Most of the high-school students I spent time with said they expected to meet the right person, fall in love and marry -- eventually. It's just that high school, many insist, isn't the place to worry about that. High school is about keeping your options open. Relationships are about closing them. As these teenagers see it, marriage and monogamy will seamlessly replace their youthful hookup careers sometime in their mid- to late 20's -- or, as one high-school boy from Rhode Island told me online, when ''we turn 30 and no one hot wants us anymore.''

Be prepared to go "Ew" a lot.

Comments

[michaelpop.livejournal.com]

as a healthy, socially active 23 year old living in the big city, i can say with some degree of authority that those high school kids in the article are the exception rather than the rule.

maybe the indie community is a little more prudish that the abercrombie crowd, but my friends and i really don't discuss sex all that much. sure there's the inevitable inter-group crushes and all that, but it never leads anywhere because our cliques are so small.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Or maybe it's just that at 23, you're OLD LIKE US.

[michaelpop.livejournal.com]

i was hoping you weren't going to go there.

*cries*