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June 24, 2009
Why is there so much teenage sex?
Sounds like a pretty stupid question really, doesn't it, "why is there so much teenage sex?". Anyone who remembers the hormonal agonies of the teenage years will wonder what on earth is being talked about. What do you mean "so much teenage sex"? There's never been enough, has there?
But this is to look from only the male side. There has been a huge change on the female side over the last century. And, as anyone (perhaps everyone) who remembers those teenage years, it's the girls who decide whether sex is going to happen, not the boys.
Yes, that is a huge change. No, it's not the decline of religion, of the abolishment of the patriarchy. There's something much more fundamental here. Yes, the reason there's so much teenage sex is all to do with economics.
The 20th century saw, for the first time, mass manufactured contraception. Condoms in the 1920s, the pill in the 1960s. This reduced the liklihood of pregnancy for those women who engaged in premarital sex....and, of course, such pregnancy was the major cost that women faced.
The cost of something comes down, more of that thing will be desired and demanded. Pretty simply stuff really. So, yes, the growth in teenage sex really is all about supply and demand curves.
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> The cost of something comes down, more of that thing will be desired and demanded.
Yes, Tim, but you're looking at only financial cost here, and completely ignoring the social costs, like, for instance, being considered unmarriable if you're known to have had sex before, or having passers-by mutter "Slut!" at you, or genuinely believing that having premarital sex could harm your chances of a decent afterlife. If what you said was the whole story, we'd be seeing roughly the same increase in premarital sex across all sections of society within the UK and across all nations where contraception is readily available. And we're not. Why do some towns have much higher rates of teenage sex than others? It's not that condoms or pills are cheaper or more abundant there.
Meanwhile, the use of narcotics has increased despite their being banned and thus having their price forced up and their availability restricted.
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