Reply #156: In reading the above, I just wanted to relate an

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interesting (to me only, perhaps) conversation I had with my 19 year old daughter. We do, often enough, have the "sex and responsibility" conversation, which, the last time, lead to taking the birth control pill as a way to control her cramping at that time of the month, also her sporadic acne. She elected not to do this, but the conversation turned into how she and her friends see sex, and she informed me that among her friends, the boys and girls, sex was seen as overrated, and something not to rush into, or even experiment with, as according to her, it is quite common, everywhere, and has absolutely no mystery anymore, anything and everything being available on the internet. Kids that sleep around are seen as losers, both the boys and girls, but it was more than that.

It was like when I was growing up, I wanted to be different than my parents, and by turning away from sex, these kids are separating themselves and their generation from the noise of society, if that makes any sense.

I thought this was interesting, as she is a musician and hangs around with musicians, this being so different then when I was young. I grew up in the 70's and the 70's were, well you know what the 70's were.

just my observation - it may be different with different groups of kids.