The ideal for every girl in high school, they explain, is to fit into size 0 jeans, a size that didn't even exist 20 years ago. Girls don't eat. The boys all seem to think this is ridiculous, yet they admire the very thin girls. I like them a little bit athletic, but not fat. Even though girls eat only handfuls of dry ramen noodles for lunch to stay fly, this is phat, or a very good thing to be.
Boys are pimps, or pimpin', as in extremely successful with the girls.
All of the boys are just chillin' with me while we talk, but the language for actual sex tends to focus on good old-fashioned blow jobs, dicks and going down. Their high school has a policy against it, and everyone knows that although that policy is written gender-free, it only applies to boys. There's lots of ways to get off. None of the teenagers know anyone with AIDS, although there is much talk of herpes and other sexually transmitted diseases. When I later ask the high school counseling office if this information is available to students, I am shown a book that lists counseling centers, health information, suicide prevention lines and other community information.