Uh-oh. It's the big bad topic. Sex. Can ya just feel the word sizzle on your tongue? Or does it make you shiver? Maybe a bit of both? It's hard to know what to think about something like that as a teen, and I think I can speak for the majority, we know what we believe about it. It's just hard to distinguish what we feel about it with what society tells us to think about it. Honestly, would you think it was such a bad thing if you hadn't had it hammered into your head as a bad thing from the moment you were born? Probably not. Seeing as it is a natural part of life, I think that the intensity and pressure of it would be gone and would be more accepted. Yes, I get that it is a "dangerous" thing and you could end up changing your life, but every time you open your eyes to a new day you risk that chance. If you're really uncomfortable with it, then that's just fine, but you shouldn't be forced into being so uncomfortable and scared about the topic of sex. I'm not saying that we should all be whores and go and get laid every night at ten, just that we should be left to make our own decision about it without interference. Yes, teach us about the risks. Those are something we need to know about, but there is also pleasure involved in it that we all know about, which is why it is desirable. There's nothing that can stop curiosity except to explore. You can't stop us from finding it out. We get that we're your "baby children" but if you're holding us back from our own major decisions, then you really need to pull your head out of the sky and get back to earth. We're not children anymore; most of teens haven't been children for quite awhile, especially at this day and age. Things like drugs, depression, pressure (peer and parental), and stress are far more common now than they have been in the past. Our eyes haven't been innocent, probably for a lot of us, since the single digit ages. If you don't believe me, take a look at the seniors and compare them to the ninth graders. Amazing how similar the activities they participate in, isn't it? "Kids" are maturing at a far faster rate then they have previously, and it's only speeding up. If you can't see this, then you aren't fit to be influencing us.