It's Pretty Funny as Long as You're Not that Parent
To figure out what teens are up to when their parents aren’t watching, we gave 53 boys and 47 girls from four Manhattan high schools (Dalton, La Guardia, Beacon, and MLK) a “purity test,” a series of 37 questions designed to tease out exactly how far they go. Then we went after 100 parents—not the parents of the kids we polled, but parents with kids in the same teen demographic. (We would have liked to administer a take-home purity test, but alas.) We found them—54 moms and 46 dads—in midtown, and put them to the test, with one difference: We asked them to guess their own teens’ answers.Have you ever. . .
...performed oral sex? Teens, 51; Parent who thought teen had 1
...had sexual intercourse without a condom? Teens, 29; Parents who thought teen had, 1
...taken pictures during sex or sexual activity? Teens, 15; Parent who thought teen had, 1
...masturbated while someone watched? Teens, 15; Parent who thought teen had, 1
...had sex in a public place? Teens, 15; Parent who thought teen had, 1
...had anal sex? Teens, 12; Parent who thought teen had, 1
. . .reader who thinks it's the same parent, 1
. . .reader who doesn't think parent is going "That's my boy!", 1
posted by Biff Loman at 6:18 PM
3 Comments:
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
Denial works for me just fine, I don't even want to know what the hell Gee is doing, it can't possibly be something I approve of.
Further all I ask is that he use protection for chrissakes!
Yeah, my mother would die if she knew how many times in college I said, "Oh, shit. It's the police," and the police said, "Oh, good. It's just you."
It wouldn't help her much to know that on at least one of those occasions, I was wearing protection.
What can I say? Mothers.
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