<<Anything that dwells on the sex lives of teenagers I consider to be family values
propoganda, fwiw. If its an aids expose thats a little different... I think this one had a VD
angle but the underlying premise was "too much sex" - etc. I don't believe people (adults
or teens) are defined by their sex lives, in fact, I don't think this much matters...>>
Lizzie, this really sounds a lot like most young women without children think about sexual issues. I can guarantee it gets much more complicated once you have children of your own! One of the essential truths of Boomer parents is that many of them had fairly non-conservative sex lives during the sixties and seventies, and would NOT want their children to have nearly so many sexual experiences, and not in their early teens, and not unprotected, and certainly not while using recreational drugs.
The religious right has no monopoly on family values. All the parents I know are more conservative with their children than they were themselves, and thank their lucky stars they survived adolescence and young adulthood reasonably unscathed, and want something less dangerous for their children.
Sex in adolescence is also related to self-esteem and a sense of whether children see futures for themselves. And a lot of teenagers really compromise their futures by becoming pregnant, or teenage fathers, or getting sexually transmitted diseases, sometimes fatal. The entire society SHOULD be concerned about this, and Frontline does a public service by presenting programs on the subject.
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