I would never want to be a teenager now. Like having casual sex can give lifelong diseases, the right wing bearing down on everyone’s freedoms (except theirs ofc), hitchhiking is a death trap, etc etc.
If I was growing up now I probably wouldn’t make it to 20.
There have been STDs probably as long as there’s been sex. But now we might just be able to cure HIV. And we’ve been able to cure the other ones with antibiotics for a long time. And condoms are cheap, available, and socially encouraged.
Interestingly, young people are actually having less casual sex anyway.
Yeah I remember it felt like fun, until I found out it was bad for you. That along with any kind of asphyxiation - who knew! You’d think just being able to look up “is huffing chrome bad for you” on the internet would inoculate kids against this kind of stupidity.
By way of explanation, we were all quite poor and ignorant where I grew up.
I remember when I realized how dangerous it was when a girl died … essentially drowning in the condensed gas fumes in her lungs. That woke us up quick.
When I was much younger we just called it huffing, whether it was spray paint cans or gas.
That’s what we called it too, but we didn’t have anyone to give us instructions or make it some sort of challenge.
I would never want to be a teenager now. Like having casual sex can give lifelong diseases, the right wing bearing down on everyone’s freedoms (except theirs ofc), hitchhiking is a death trap, etc etc.
If I was growing up now I probably wouldn’t make it to 20.
There have been STDs probably as long as there’s been sex. But now we might just be able to cure HIV. And we’ve been able to cure the other ones with antibiotics for a long time. And condoms are cheap, available, and socially encouraged.
Interestingly, young people are actually having less casual sex anyway.
Yeah I remember it felt like fun, until I found out it was bad for you. That along with any kind of asphyxiation - who knew! You’d think just being able to look up “is huffing chrome bad for you” on the internet would inoculate kids against this kind of stupidity.
By way of explanation, we were all quite poor and ignorant where I grew up.
Yeah. We were poor and ignorant too.
I remember when I realized how dangerous it was when a girl died … essentially drowning in the condensed gas fumes in her lungs. That woke us up quick.