> I'd like to point out that American teenagers are quite likely to be 
> different from teenagers from other cultures. The fact that they are 
> all going through a similar biological change doesn't make *them* 
> necessarily similar. The culture you grow up in determines to a great 
> measure the way you view this biological change. And cultures vary 
> enormously in the view they inculcate of body, sex, puberty. It 
> seems to me that in American culture (which filters over here via TV 
> and movies) body-sex-puberty is something different than in British 
> culture. 
> The fact that for (some) American teenagers sex-romance is of 
> such central importance that they can't imagine it being otherwise, 
> doesn't mean that we have to accept this as a universal truth. Sexual 
> urges can be dealt with and thought about very differently. In the 
> Middle Ages, for instance, sexual urges were viewed as so alien to 
> the self that they were sometimes demonised (incubus, succubus). So, 
> the fact that the biological process is the same, doesn't at all 
> guarantee that the responses to it are the same. I think that 
> this tendency to flatten a person to his/her "hormones" is a) very 
> demeaning and b) is itself a cultural construct.
> 
> Naama
> 
 Very good point Naama!  I am a teenager in America and hate the way my fellow students act in areas of sexuality.  Almost all of them are extremely immature and i find it very sad that that's how it is sense i know that isn't how it is in other places.  Well that's all i go to say.
~Star~


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