No Sex Please, We're Skittish
Newsweek's cover story on "The New Virginity" drives home the fact that Gen-Whatever has been more influenced by Touched By an Angel than by Dawson's Creek. They're having less sex than in the past (or, same thing, not lying about sex as much as previous generations did); they do less drugs; they go to school more; etc. Eminem, it turns out, really is a destructive influence.
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Yes sirre! I’m sure glad we have brought up another generation of prudish, sexually repressed young people who believe that having a little fun is “evil.”