Maybe I was in some weird repressed society. I remember thinking about boys when I was sixteen, but not about the actual act of sex. More about kissing. My high school was so focused on prepping you for college (99% of my class graduated on-time, and I think 96% of my graduating class was accepted to a 4-year college) that most people actually didn't have boyfriends or girlfriends. There were a few couples, but only the "losers" or "outcasts" were ever given the reputation of being sexually active. I was actually a virgin until I was 20, and even then I was terrified and didn't really want to do it. It just wasn't on my list of desires. I wanted more for myself. I wanted a boyfriend, but sex wasn't that important.

Maybe 16 year-olds these days think about sex so much because it's CONSTANTLY IN THEIR FACES.

I'm totally not religious, but I can see the benefit of instilling the fear of God into your daughter than having sex before marriage could spell disaster for her life.

Of course, now I love sex and went through my own phase of indiscretions after my divorce, but I was a grown-up, with a job, not a teenager with no idea of what they want to do with their life.

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