On the one hand, bombarded by warnings about AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, adolescents are taught abstinence, the sole contraception method taught at one-third of all public schools across the country, according to a recent poll by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a private research organization. On the other hand, teenagers are confronted daily with a culture that has become a very sexy place indeed in which to live. There's hardly a film that doesn't show a man and a woman having sex. There's MTV, lurid rap lyrics, and now we've got techno sex on the Internet. None of this is lost on young adolescents, Waltzman said.
Kids always push to the limit of what's permitted in a society.
The sex was never with a steady girlfriend, because he has never had one. I think it's curiosity. I don't think that's bad. But then they've had oral sex 50 or 60 times. It's like a goodnight kiss to them, how they say goodbye after a date.