Amber~ LOL sling crack! you are probably right!
Bina~ I hate to ask this, but what would "juicy" refer to in "willwork for juicy"? LOL

Emily~ I think you hit the nail on the head as far as the environment you are in in highschool. Only I would take it a bit further from "cool" to "cultural." I went to a public HS and our demographics ranged from kids from the "poor" area with parents in jail to a lawyers son who drove a new BMW to school. And yes, at 16, I DID sit around and think about sex. I don't think I was "hypersexual" I think it was somewhat normal. Getting PG was definatly looked down upon, but not sex. I think it's amazing how different things can be from place to place and school to school. Here in Santa Fe, things are very different. One of our biggest controversies was that a gay couple ran for homecoming king/queen (king) and the school ruled a male couldn't run for "queen" I think he got elected anyhow, so they gave it to the female runner-up. Anyhow, my point is that things are just more open, I guess, here-for lack of a better word.

Steph~ you crack me up with your nostalgia! wow, you were pretty far ahead in school, what's that, 2 years ahead? LOL about your sex talk. I gotta tell you mine: One night after dinner, we were still sitting at the table and my mother handed my father a condom. She didn't say a word. He just nonchalatly put it on his fingers and pinched the tip. He just said "that's how a condom works, any questions?" I was a bit mortified. I think I was only a freshman at the time. And that was that. No talk of the possible relationship to love and sex or what it could do to you mentally. WOW, come to think of it, this explains A LOT in my life LOL. Freud would have a field day with this one!

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