"Restless Virgins": book on sex life at Milton Academy

[midnight armadillo]

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/08/20/notes_on_a_scandal/

Notes on a scandal
New book on Milton Academy offers shocking insight into teens and sex

By Bella English, Globe Staff | August 20, 2007

There are startling scenes in "Restless Virgins" that are bound to -- and meant to -- shock readers. Three hockey players in a girl's bedroom. Clothes come off. Two of the guys hook up with the girl while the third watches and gives instructions.

Another scene: a girl performing oral sex on a guy in a campus chapel.
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The teenagers were students at prestigious Milton Academy, alma mater to Kennedys and Rockefellers, T.S. Eliot and Governor Deval Patrick. The book, filled with such steamy scenarios, leaves the impression that many students at the highly selective prep school spend much of their time either engaging in casual sex or trying to.
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The authors agree that casual sex among teenagers is a national phenomenon that can be blamed in part on the hypersexualized culture. "You've had Abercrombie <& Fitch> selling thongs to 10-year-olds, and TV sex scenes doubled from 1998 to 2002," says Miley, who majored in English and economics at the University of Pennsylvania and now lives in New York. That, coupled with websites such as Facebook and MySpace, have created a universe where little is considered out-of-bounds.

Jones calls it "generational exhibitionism."

"These kids are putting their lives on display," she says. "People didn't used to have sex in front of others. This is the first generation of kids coming of age in the Internet, and there's a breaking down of privacy."
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long article at link. My how high school seems to have changed.

[MADem]

1. Good grief. That's 'another country' AFAIC...!!!

Miley calls it the reality of post-feminist sex. "The girls feel so empowered that they can do anything they want including having sex like guys can," she says. "But they're still playing in a guy's world, and it's not an even playing field."

[PSPS]

2. Horrors! Teenagers "spending much of their time either engaging in casual sex or trying to."

If it was anything like my teenage years, there was far too much time devoted to the "trying to" part.

You'd think these "researchers" never had a normal life they way they go on about "those horrible teenagers and their preoccupation with SEX!!!!!"

I'll bet the proofreader of this study had a hard time, what with all the drool on the paper.