Over the years, teenagers have changed their views towards the subject of sex. Drastic trends have taken hold amongst young adults, changing the culture of sex and romance in our country. Teenagers are taking more precaution and obstain a better understanding towards the matter. Fewer teenagers are engaging in sex but the conduct has become even more casual between both genders.
The first article highlights the positive trends that are occuring amongst teenagers. Fewer teenagers are engaging in sex, or engaging in casual sex. With this trend that means that there are fewer teen pregancies, fewer abortions, and sexually transmitted diseases being spread. More individuals are holding off from sex until they are in a committed relationship or feel emotionall mature. The sense of pressure to lose one's virginity in high school is not as harshly felt compared with other previous decades. This can be attributed to better sex education in school sytems, more teens practicing abstinence, and better awareness of contraceptive uses and purchasing information. Not only does there seem to be an education and awareness revolution occuring amongst teenagers, but a gender revolution as well. More girls are witholding sex from their partners, as a way to stand their ground, demanding respect and equality from their male counterparts. Through a sample of various bar graphs, these trends can be easily recognized.
In the second article, the article focusees less on teenagers in high school and flushes out today's sexual culture amongst college coeds. Dating is almost non-existent on college campuses these days. Meeting up at parties or social events amongst friends and then hooking up is the new dating for today's college students. Contrasting to the previous article, college males are dominating over college females. According to statistics, males are being more pleasured than theur female counterparts. College females do not seem to be witholding in the same regard as high school females. More and more students are hooking up with people they don't even know, or hardly know. Less and less are going on dates, engaging in conversation, hanging out and getting to know one another before they engage in sexual activity.
The trends highlighted by England and Thomas seem to perfectly echo trends happening here at Boston College. There is hardly any dating before hooking up occurs. Everything is very casual and dominated more so by the males on our campus, specifically male athletes.
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