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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you could also consider pre-AIDS, post-AIDS.
I was born in 72, and have never had the concept of casual fun sex. Sex could kill you, from the moment I was aware of it as a personal thing.
My DH was born in 66, and he remembers how sex was fine and great, and then suddenly it could kill you.

We're both Xers, but that's a big difference in how teenagers relate and mature.[/quote]

Good point. I was born in the 60s.

When I hit my teenage years, every form of VD could be cured. Sex without consequences, yay! 
Then suddenly there was a form of VD that could not be cured (herpes was a big deal when it first emerged!) but it didn't kill you.
A little later, there was a form of VD that could not be cured and it killed you.
And now... there are lots of types of VD that cannot be cured.[/quote]I was born in 55 and remember this change.  Also, in the pre-Roe v Wade era, if you got pregnant, the question was whether you could get to New York for an abortion because you sure couldn't get one in Ohio.  I heard that a girl had someone else take her SATs for her so she could go to New York for an abortion.  But the other thing is that Roe v Wade really mobilized the pro-life movement.  When I was a teen, you didn't think about whether abortion was "baby-killing," (and I don't think it is) you just were afraid of getting pregnant and not having access to abortion.  After Roe v Wade, this became a huge issue.[/quote]

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