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NewJeffCT

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18. That is also true
Tue Sep 25, 2018, 07:39 AM
Sep 2018

I think first Herpes and then AIDS have changed things a lot - Kavanaugh grew up in a different era coming out of the 60s and 70s. Not excusing attempted rape at all, but I remember stories of my high school and how in 8th grade the captain of the basketball team was found naked in the showers of the locker room with the captain of the cheerleaders, having sex. And, this was 8th grade.

Contrast that to my daughter, who is now a junior in high school and her, and many of her friends, have hardly even gone out of dates and many are also reluctant to get their driver's licenses as well. When I was in high school, it was a big thing that as soon as you turned 16, you would start driver's ed and sign up for your driving test. While I think kids are still out having sex, I think kids nowadays seem to not be in quite as much of a rush.

Or, maybe that is because I grew up in a working class/blue collar town and now live in an upper middle class white collar town and it's a difference in expectations?




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