So what do bored middle to upper-middle class surban white kids do in their spare time? They "hook-up". What is hooking up? Basically it's casual sex.
It seems that teens have figured out that relationships are hard to maintain. They require work to be successful and for young kids that's just too much. I can understand that, who wants to "work" to get a good relationship when all the raging hormones scream for sex. Why not have the sex and forget the rest?
I think if you read the article there are a lot of contradictions about how teens are feeling. On one hand hooking up is easy and cool, yet too much can be a bad thing. People need to be careful to maintain that "clean" image, otherwise they'll never be able to find a proper relationship. Another thing is to look at how some teens says no emtions are involved. But when casual sex partners leave each other (either because they get bored or somebody has found a real relationship) people end up getting hurt no matter how hard they try to suppress those feelings.
It seems that teens have figured out that relationships are hard to maintain. They require work to be successful and for young kids that's just too much. I can understand that, who wants to "work" to get a good relationship when all the raging hormones scream for sex. Why not have the sex and forget the rest?
I think if you read the article there are a lot of contradictions about how teens are feeling. On one hand hooking up is easy and cool, yet too much can be a bad thing. People need to be careful to maintain that "clean" image, otherwise they'll never be able to find a proper relationship. Another thing is to look at how some teens says no emtions are involved. But when casual sex partners leave each other (either because they get bored or somebody has found a real relationship) people end up getting hurt no matter how hard they try to suppress those feelings.
I’m so pissed and disgusted by this I need to share it.
Stop This!
I'm not quite sure what the solution is. Obviously education plays an important role, but what sort of ideas do parents need to speak about? Teen's are stupid, they know all about the sort of risks involved with unprotected sex. The issue here isn't that teens are taking a risk in having unprotected sex (which they aren't, in the article most of the casual sex is oral in nature). The issue is that teens are damaging their emtional selves and that's very difficult to explain. Teen's will be quick to brush it off as "old people talk".
Interesting article, i must say. Hey by the way talking about "friends with benefits" do u happen to have one. I understand u talking about teenagers but what about adults. They are right there if u compare the teens with adults. They dont want to have commitments either, they would rather go to the corner club on weekends and pick up a girl and have a one night stand. Monday morning wake up, back to work again, saves them lot of hassle of living up to so called BOYFRIEND status....
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