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Old 09-22-2007, 04:30 AM   #38 (permalink)
james t kirk
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It's going to happen.

Teenage sex is nothing new, the medium is new, so perhaps it seems shocking.

As someone who doesn't have kids, I marvel at my sister and her friends who all have a passle of children.

If anything, those kids are OVER protected, and OVER regulated. My sister and her soccer mom crew are without a doubt, "MomSters" extraordinaire. They all live in wilds of Burlington in 4000 square foot houses, with an SUV in every driveway and green fencing as far as the eye can see. My niece is 11. She's never walked to school. She gets dropped off (along with her brother who is 7), she gets picked up. She gets driven everywhere, her time is regulated. She's enrolled in so much extracaricular stuff, she has very very little free time. My sister and brother in law are complete slaves to their children's schedules.

I guess my point is, that from what I can see, their lives are way more regulated than mine was. I used to walk to school every day from the age of 6 till I finished. The odd time if it was pouring rain, I might get a ride depending on what shift my dad was on. We rode bikes without helmets, we went to the construction sites after school and threw "dirt bombs" at each other's heads, we went to scout camp and engaged in survival games that would make the Michigan Militia knod thier heads in approval. We used to climb 8 foot fences into the drive in theatre, and we took the bus downtown to play pin ball and go to Wendys at age 12. Oh, and we tried to kiss the girls but they would never let us. By 16, we managed to convince the girls to take their pants off.

Hey wait, some things are still the same! There may be hope after all.

I think what shocks us older folks is that we ARE older and a girl of 14 or 15 seems so young (and she is). We know AT OUR AGE that they don't know jack about what's involved with what they are doing and they don't have the ability to cope with the repercussions of what they are doing (Not that some of my friends my age even do.) But when you are 14 or 15, you think you know everything. (I certainly did.) Truth is, you know fuck all, but you won't know that till you are 30 plus years old yourself.

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