Teen sex sparked by boredom, low self-esteem
I know teenage sexuality is not a new concept, but come on.
Ever since I was a junior in high school, I've held the belief that there must've been something in the water to make the incoming freshmen the way they were. However, by the next year, my belief about people younger than me being the easy ones was not the case. At least five girls became pregnant and this was only counting the seniors.
My opinion on teenage sexuality has dwindled some as I've grown accustomed to college, but my sister is now a sophomore in high school and I can't help but wonder if there's still something in the water.
Now, I know! It must be like in Juno, where you get bored and don't want to watch The Blair Witch Project so instead have sex.
Before now, I've mentally connected teenage promiscuousness to how someone was raised and the morals they were taught. But I know how my sister was raised; it was the same way I was raised.
Now I've come to the conclusion it's all about boundaries and where girls draw that line and how willing they are to compromise themselves to feel validated in the eyes of guys.
Will it make them more popular? Will it prolong their relationship with this boy?
The truth is it will most likely further alienate them because guys don't take girls who want to get down on the first date very seriously.
A lack of self-confidence is something I've observed in my sister for years. She is beautiful, smart and has everything going for her, most of the time anyway. Yet, she feels that inferiority and insecurity all the same.
It was also something I observed in the section of the female population who dressed provocatively and had a reputation for sleeping around. I don't care what anyone says about believing everything they hear, rumors have to start somewhere with a grain of truth.
I can completely understand feeling, for whatever reason, unsure of myself, so that I think the only way to please anyone and keep him or her around is to be overtly sexual in every sense of the word. What I can't understand is not recognizing the problem and doing something, anything, to stop the cycle.
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