[HPforGrownups] No Sex, Please, We're British (was ethics in the WW )

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 83290

I'm finding all the speculation about sex at Hogwarts, rather interesting - but also 
rather weird. Just my perspective, but I did attend a school that was in many ways 
like Hogwarts in the early 1990s, and I know a *lot* of other people who did - and 
things like dating and sex wasn't really a major part of most people's lives. Very 
few people dated on any regular basis. If someone did, they weren't considered 
weird by any means, but it certainly wasn't weird to not be doing those things 
either.

I honestly think those who find the lack of sex at Hogwarts weird are imposing 
perceptions based on their own experiences on a school environment that is very 
different to what we see at Hogwarts. To me, Hogwarts seems about right - the 
kids are not immune to feelings about the other sex, and occasionally somebody 
does act on them - but most people, most of the time, are more interested in 
passing their exams - or training for quidditch, or hanging out with their friends, or 
liberating house elves, or starting a successful practical joke business... sex just 
isn't a major priority.

I watch American TV shows supposedly about teenagers (and I'm not stupid 
enough to believe those shows are particularly accurate) and the common 
depiction of how young people date, and how often sex in their minds seems very 
alien to me. That's because my experiences growing up are different - and I think 
the same is true of the kids at Hogwarts. What they experience seems very 
realistic to me.



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