If you're feeling steamy and hot, there's only one thing you want to do. Kids have hormones too. Parents can search all they want for common ground with today's kids, trying to draw parallels between contemporary carnal knowledge and an earlier generation's free-love crusades, but the two movements are quite different. A desire to break out of the old-fashioned strictures fueled the '60s movement, and its participants made sexual freedom a kind of new religion. That sort of reverence has been replaced by a more consumerist attitude.
Ignorance is no longer the rule.
It's like we've been to the moon too many times. The good news about their precocious knowledge of the mechanics of sex is that a growing number of teens know how to protect themselves, at least physically. That's a more troublesome picture. If you turn him down, you're a bitch. But if you do it, you're a ho.