In Part 1 , we looked at the components of sexual readiness. The following are common reasons why people choose to have sex. Some are specific to young people, while others may be found at all age levels. For one, there are many ways to experience physical pleasure that do not involve having sex. What is maturity?

No, seriously, this was the question posed in the recent op-ed piece The unintended consequences of laws addressing sex between teachers and students in the Washington Post. Throughout high school, college and law school, I knew students who had sexual relations with teachers. Although some feelings probably got bruised, no one I knew was horribly damaged and certainly no one died. She recounts her own experience as a horny year-old girl in the s as well as the experience of her girlfriends, who carried on sexual relations with high school and college professors and by her own estimations, turned out fine.

Teenagers are increasingly less likely to engage in adult activities like drinking alcohol, working jobs, driving or having sex according to research from San Diego State University and Bryn Mawr College published in the peer-reviewed journal Child Development Tuesday. The declines in adult activities were consistent across demographic groups, including gender, race, socioeconomic status, region, and in both urban and rural areas, suggesting a major shift is taking place. They analyzed seven large surveys of 8. The surveys were nationally representative, reflecting the population of U. While smaller family sizes and changing economic factors such as unemployment rate and median household income are among the causes, Twenge also points to the rise of technology.

Skip to content. My son is 16, and met a He's been going to see her at her home the last month or so, and told us he met both her parents and her grand parents. The girl seemed nice, respectful, ran up to meet me and helped me carry groceries. I was somewhat uncomfortable about her sitting in my son's lap the whole time after that, and then they ran off to his room downstairs.