Re: Teen Sex Parties on my weekend newspaper

Hi!

Of course 50 people aren't too many. I guess the shocking intent is lost if you mention that, though, LOL. Though I will concede too that it's unlikely that this is the only such party or group or the absolute most sexually active group. I mean, you really never know what can go on if teens really want to do something they know their parents wouldn't allow. I wonder too how many the reporter didn't find and how many refused to talk to her.

How many of those people just went for booze/drugs, and didn't have sex?

I don't think many would turn down the offer, though. I know that during my teens, I wouldn't have. Yes, I did attend parties partly for the freedom to drink or smoke cigarettes too sometimes, and regularly the only people who would have sex would be those who had a girlfriend already and it wouldn't be public either.

The article several times points out how religious the community is,

I am not too sure about this.

I suppose the intent is better understood by a local. Here, all public schools are secular. Some private schools are religious, but most are secular too. However, among the top or most famous schools, religious schools are more than their share of all schools. This includes Protestant, Catholic and Jewish schools alike, by the way. Because of this, and combined with the reputation of public schools as looser on discipline and thus more likely to have drugs, underage drinking or sexual promiscuity, very religious parents, all other things constant (like income, of course), will send their children more to private schools than not religious parents.

So, I think the intent was more to point out that religious, or simply social conservative parents who send their children to private schools partly because of the bad reputation of public schools regarding unruly behavior, are probably not preventing any of the things they want to prevent.

The schools involved are not mentioned by name, but I have the feeling that the school the four friends who hosted the party attend is private but secular.

I can't help but feel that this is a backlash against their parents' restrictiveness.

In some cases it is. That girl "Denise" told it almost like that.

I actually have a friend who is a devout Protestant and all his family are, but who nonetheless attended a famous Catholic school with a good academic reputation. He says that in that school, not too many girls had sex, but those who did were VERY promiscuous, and attributed it to being emphasised all the time NOT to have sex. Then, in order to rebel against the adult order, as most teens do, they had sex precisely because it was the greatest rule and taboo they could easily break. Another friend, this one a fundy Catholic, who actually belongs to the group mentioned in the article, but who attended another school, agreed with the assessment. My Protestant friend also said that his former school had the highest pregnancy rates of all, even higher than the public schools. He said that was because many girls, if they had had sex spontaneously and unplanned, or during their first few times, didn't use any contraception and sometimes didn't even know how to. Ironically, the most promiscuous girls, who had more experience and had been having sex for more time, weren't the ones to get pregnant, for the most part. They had been lucky the first few times, and then learned what to do.

But as shown with the girl who was made a nun and brainwashed into thinking sex is evil, the cycle will probably continue.

Yes. Sad world.