Sex in the seventies was Sirius matters (and so does Draco)

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Horst or Rebecca J. Bohner" <bohners at p...> 
wrote:
   And remember, by the time he graduated from Hogwarts
> he was only 17.  How common was it, really, for high school seniors to be
> sexually active 30 years ago? 

	I laughed myself silly reading this. :) Speaking as a forty 
something, I can answer that-- common enough. Not everybody was "doing 
it". But plenty were. Today's society makes =more= effort to keep teens 
chaste, or at least careful, than it did thirty years ago.
  		Seventies teens were raised "permissively", heard folksongs 
about The Pill, thought STD's were a thing of the past,heard their 
older siblings chant Make Love Not War...how much all of that impacted 
the wizarding world I don't know...but if Sirius wanted to sow wild 
oats with the Muggle population of high school girls, he probably 
wouldn't have had to look too hard.
Pippin, class of '69 ;)