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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

Ew

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

I think I may have to upgrade my ew to holy crap, but then it occurs to me I've always been mystified by the sexual mores of the general public. I think what amazes me most is how few kids seem concerned with STDs -- probably some concept of teen invulnerability mixed with ignorance of how easily they can spread and how gets them.

One of the most interesting things in there was the brief mention that straight kids today act the way people tend to assume the gay population does, and pretty much vice versa.

Doesn't really do a lot to raise my estimation of teens.

[bushmiller.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha, clearly you old fogies spend no time around college-age people anymore. Kids are "doin' it" much more than they were when I was in college, plus a lot of other kinds of experimentation are back in a big way. Lots of coke floating around college campuses nowadays.

--sean

[bnewmark.livejournal.com]

well, this is kind of old news at this point, but along the same lines of promiscuity by the younger generations.
http://washingtoniennearchive.blogspot.com

[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.