Dan Savage on What Age is it Appropriate to Have Sex

The age when you're ready physically and emotionally. Doesn't have to be intercourse, either.

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[wyoboy65]

The sister of a friend of mine feels she has to be married to somebody if she is going to have sex with them. She is on her fifth marriage....

[robmarcreed]

Teenagers need to listen to this in high school.

[WonderfulDenmark]

This guy is awesome.

I would rant about my sexual frustrations, but there too incoherent to understand.

[Irina6969]

perfectly correct

[GodofReapers]

I'm a young adult, I've been sexually active for 5 years, I have never had penetrative sex and I do not feel like I'm missing out. I don't really consider myself a "virgin" anymore -- I don't even know what that phrase means, really, in this day and age. If you're gay and you don't like anal (in either direction), does that mean you're always a virgin? Anyway, just wanted to say that I'm with Dan 100% on this one.

[squamish4244]

@superpwn21 You mean St. Paul. Unless you're going by the Old Testament, in which case you'd also have to condone slavery, the stoning of adulterers, and a whole pile of other messed up crap.

[squamish4244]

@gamerunknown I agree with the rest of your points, but prostitution is alive and well in Spain and many people are still quite religious.

[XavierAXB]

@superpwn21 Not everyone believes in God.

[schmendrikc]

I liked, but with a caveat: fucking the jerk you're with when you're too young is not always due to thinking he's the One because you want to fuck him; sometimes it's just due to teenagers being morons most of the time.

[gamerunknown]

@sirus804

It's a simple principle espoused by Abraham Lincoln that renting oneself is not superior to selling oneself. The rational actor theory proposes that all those performing a trade meet as equals, but there is an inherent disparity between those pimped and Johns. The capitalist holds that all those that are not producing surplus value deserve to die, thus in desperation sex becomes a commodity. In Spain after the people's liberation from the Church, prostitution disappeared.

[sirus804]

@gamerunknown pornography and prostitution aren't "bad".. Forced prostitution is bad but not normal prostitution.. If the girl wants to make money sucking dick, let her suck dick.

[gamerunknown]

@WesleySpeaks23

I think he's commenting on the hypocrisy of the prevalent culture: "teen sex is always wrong. Both of your parents did it and they're completely normal, but yeah". If he was claiming that abnormal is bad, he would loathe himself since exclusive homosexuality is some standard deviations from the norm (but we know that abnormality isn't bad, hurting others is bad).