Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site hocsf.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!amd!dual!zehntel!ihnp4!drutx!houxe!hogpc!pegasus!hocsf!docs From: docs@hocsf.UUCP Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Kate Hepburn on sex life of today's college students Message-ID: <164@hocsf.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 15:45:25 EDT Article-I.D.: hocsf.164 Posted: Wed Oct 17 15:45:25 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 06:14:14 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 33 I heard something about an interview of Kate Hepburn in McCalls magazine. In it she says that she thinks that the atmosphere in today's colleges promotes young men and women to have sex earlier than they should. Not that Ms. Hepburn is any expert in this area. I don't want to argue whether Kate should make a comment like this; I want to discuss the statement by itself. Are young men and women jumping into sex too early? If so, is the atmosphere at college egging them on? Please, let's not have moral arguments about how sex between two unmarried college students is wrong. The question at hand is "Are college students starting to have sex too early (too early be- cause they are not emotionally prepared for it) because of the atmosphere at college?" Of course, it's prefectly acceptable to discuss why teenagers are having sex so early in general. I'm sure that a lot of those college students have had sex before they even get to college. Related to this, when is someone emotionally and mentally mature enough to have sex? Have some of you out there ever wished you had waited a little longer? Started a little earlier?(Don't all raise your hands at once! :-)) The high incidence of teenage pregnancies either tells us that teenagers are having sex before they are responsible enough to do so, or that teenagers are just plain stupid.(Anyone who was a teenager could probably argue for that. :-)) What does the net.singles audience think? I know we have quite a few college students out there, and even more ex-college students. I put this in net.singles, because this seemed like the logical place for it. This is where we all seem to discuss human relationships and satisfy our urge to play psychiatrist. Sharon Badian