The teenagers have it the hardest. They have all the raging hormones we had when we were their age, AND the various collection of STD's are lethal, not just a trip to the doctor's for a shot of penicillin. The consequences they face are indeed far more grave than they were for most of us. Pagan families seem to be much more open about sex than the rest of America. It could be that we see things a bit more realistically.
Sex is part our lives and part of the scheme of nature.
The Birds do it, the bees do it, and life goes on. If society can provide a bad example of sex, we have to make sure we can provide a good one. We have to teach sexual security to our children. We have to find the balance between teaching a child to be trusting towards people, and knowing that no one can be trusted. We have to empower our children to know what an unsafe situation is, and what to do if caught in one.