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MineralMan

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7. Adolescent (and adult) males now seem to feel entitled to all sorts of things.
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 10:02 AM
Apr 2025

Sex is just one of them. I remember being that age in the late 1950s and early 1960s. I remember never feeling entitled to any favors from the girls and young women of that time period. In fact, we were all pretty much celibate, but not by choice. The thing was, though, that we didn't expect to have sex with our female peers. Some of us did, after dating the same person for a long time, but if you weren't having sex as a teenager, you were just part of the majority.

Those attitudes have changed, it seems. I'm not exactly sure why, although I'm betting that the universal access to porn on the internet plays a role in those expectations. That was another thing we didn't have in the 50's and 60s. It existed, but we didn't have access to it at all, other than the occasional Playboy magazine, which was pretty mild stuff.

Things have gotten weird for adolescents, it seems to me. Too complicated, by half.

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