The Sleepover Question

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NOT under my roof. That’s the attitude most American parents have toward
teenagers and their sex lives. Squeamishness and concern describe most
parents’ approach to their offspring’s carnality. We don’t want them doing
it — whatever “it” is! — in our homes. Not surprisingly, teenage sex is a
source of conflict in many American families.

Would Americans increase peace in family life and strengthen family bonds if
they adopted more accepting attitudes about sex and what’s allowable under
the family roof? I’ve interviewed 130 people, all white, middle class and
not particularly religious, as part of a study of teenage sex and family
life here and in the Netherlands. My look into cultural differences suggests
family life might be much improved, for all, if Americans had more open
ideas about teenage sex. The question of who sleeps where when a teenager
brings a boyfriend or girlfriend home for the night fits within the larger
world of culturally divergent ideas about teenage sex, lust and capacity for
love.

Read more here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/opinion/sunday/24schalet.html?_r=2&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=thab1

I always thought part of the fun was finding a place.


J

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Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. -
Henry Kissinger

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go
out and buy some more tunnel. - John

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