# Ask the American Teen **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 23, 2001, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-american-teen/66232 "2001-05-23T00:46:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DaveRaver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daveraver/32/1078_2.png) [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2001, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-american-teen/66232/21 "2001-05-25T01:30:18Z")
Please list all the new slang words you use. Do not include ones which your generation didn’t invent, such as “cool”. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![DaveRaver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daveraver/32/1078_2.png) [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2001, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-american-teen/66232/22 "2001-05-25T01:37:29Z")
oh, and provide definitions. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![TitoBenito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2acd7d/32.png) [@TitoBenito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TitoBenito)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2001, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-american-teen/66232/23 "2001-05-25T05:17:18Z")
Although i think the tope 10 guys attracted a lot of girls. the top 10% popular guys only get about 10% of the girls. They get half the popular girls (the other 5% are the ones who actually live up to their discustingly wholessome images) maybe this is just in the bible belt though. the rest are the same sluts that every guy in school sleeps with. well not me at least. I was never interested with either of those groups. Man you guys go to crazy parties. I cant understand why any girl would do that, especially in jr high. Jr. High kids sex life should be about holding hands and looking at the penthouses they find between their older brothers bed and boxspring. ---
**Author:** ![shagadelicmysteryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@shagadelicmysteryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shagadelicmysteryman)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2001, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-american-teen/66232/24 "2001-05-25T14:12:18Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Libertarian \* > \*\* > [li]What do you believe is the philosophical implication (if any) of your own mortality?[/li]_\* Well, I’d have to say personally that the overall reason of my life would be to live it to the fullest. Does that answer that question? > [@](#): > > **[li]What do you think of Jesus’ moral imperative, “Be Perfect”?[/li]** obviously we can’t all be perfect. I think it means to at least try to do right (whatever you may see that as). > [@](#): > > **[li]Under what conditions does your personal experience outweigh other epistemological considerations?[/li]** It doesn’t. I feel that I am an average American teenager. i realize that viewpoints are varied, however, I think that my friends and i are a sample of the population. > [@](#): > > \*\* > [li]Does it annoy, confuse, frustrate, or otherwise trouble you that your consciousness is a closed frame of reference?[/li]\*\* I try to keep an open mind on every subject. But in my conciounce, are the morals and rules I live by. What I think is right and wrong. For me personally these seldomly change, except with Mary Jane! I’ve seen it change more readily with friends. So no, I’m not frustrated, because it changes when the need arises. > [@](#): > > \*\* > [li]Do you believe in God? If not, why not? If so, why, and what do you mean by “God”?[/li]\*\* Do I believe in God? Yes, i’d like to think that he exists, however I think that organized religion is a sham. Its a damn joke. God would be a supreme being. ---
**Author:** ![shagadelicmysteryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@shagadelicmysteryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shagadelicmysteryman)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2001, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-american-teen/66232/25 "2001-05-25T14:18:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by msmith537 \* > \*\* > > I have some questions: > > First of all, adults always seem to think that the next generation of teenagers is always somehow worst than the last. They always say “I never did that at that age!”. Apparently drugs, sex, peer pressure, drinking, fighting, etc. has always only been around for one generation. > > So my question is: Has being a teenager changed that much in the past 10 years (I mean its not like U2, Aerosmith and Madonna are still touring 🙂 )? When I was a teenager (late 80’s to early 90s), we had the following issues/concerns: > > - Where to score concert tickets (Debbie Gibson instead of Britney Spears, Circa “Master of Puppets” Mettalica instead of new Mettalica, etc) > - Where to score a six pack of Bud > - Getting into a decent college > - Not looking like a dork > - Figuring out which drugs, if any, I want to try > - Getting laid > - How much homework sucks > - How uncool my parents are > - How “what’s his name” at school is a dickhead > - How lame this (suburban) town is > - Affording a car that’s not a Pinto, Pacer, Escort, or Gremlin > - Who’s having a party this weekend > - Making the soccer/football/whatever team > > So is being a teen radically diferent these days? > \*\* The answer to all of those questions would be no, it hasn’t changed. The party, beer and drug thing has drastically risen though. \*\* [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2001, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-american-teen/66232/26 "2001-05-27T17:23:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tracer \* > \*\ ***Dear American Teen:** > > Last night’s episode of _Frontline_ (shown on my local PBS affiliate, KQED) featured the teen-age students of a high school in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1996, a syphillus epidemic was discovered at this school, and in the process of tracking down the carriers of the disease, it was further discovered that there were large numbers of these teen-aged students having extremely promiscuous sex with one another. Group orgies were not uncommon, and the participants were usually drunk. At least one of the female students interviewed said that she had frequent sex but that the experience was not enjoyable for her. It was not made clear whether these young ladies had orgasms or not. > > So, **is** it that easy for teen-agers to get laid? If so, how come I missed out on it when I was a teen-ager? And do sexually active teen-age females climax, or not? \*\* I’m a little past being a teenager now, but I am a student at a women’s college so most of the people I know are young women between the ages of 17 and 22. As best as I can tell from talking with my peers, many sexually active teenaged girls do not have orgasms. Many do not even particularly enjoy sex. Why is this? Well, as one friend of mine said about her own high school sexual experiences, “With guys that age, they’re so excited to be having sex that they’re finished practically as soon as you touch them.” Not very satisfying for the young woman involved. With girls like the one you describe above, they probably do not even expect to enjoy sex. Young women who do have sex for the pleasure of the act are rarely “extremely promiscuous”. They might have sex frequently, but usually not with many different partners. I think that girls who have sex with many different partners almost always do so because of some sort of self-esteem issue. They don’t know of any better way to get attention and affection from others than by agreeing to have sex with them. This is a situation unlikely to lead to mutually pleasureable sex. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2001, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-american-teen/66232/27 "2001-05-28T05:00:50Z")
Lamia wrote: > [@](#): > > As best as I can tell from talking with my peers, many sexually active teenaged girls do not have orgasms. Many do not even particularly enjoy sex. > > Why is this? Well, as one friend of mine said about her own high school sexual experiences, “With guys that age, they’re so excited to be having sex that they’re finished practically as soon as you touch them.” Not very satisfying for the young woman involved. \ This almost makes a good case for getting rid of those laws against allowing adults to have sex with teen-agers. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2001, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-american-teen/66232/28 "2001-05-28T21:04:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tracer \* > \*\* > \ > > This almost makes a good case for getting rid of those laws against allowing adults to have sex with teen-agers. \*\* I doubt many teenaged boys would think so. There aren’t a lot of adult women who would want to sleep with them, and they’ve already got enough trouble getting action from girls in their own age group. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sterra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Sterra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterra)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2001, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-american-teen/66232/29 "2001-05-29T00:43:53Z")
Well women do hit their sexual peak like 5 years after men lose it:) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-american-teen/66232.md?page=1)