I think the ‘watch out for the boys!’ talk must be a location thing. Around here, all the girls are warned to watch out for me personally by name and description.
Oh, can people tell dpr to stop doing that please …
20 years ago, things were different. The biggest worry from sex was pregnancy. Girls had much more to risk than boys in that regard.
Both boys and girls need to watch out, now that sex can be deadly. I taught my kids early what a condom was and how to use one. They are good kids, smart and raised right, but they needed frank honesty about sex at a way earlier age than I did.
Don’t trust your upbringing and morals alone to get you through the teen years. There are hormonal urges that are very powerful – if you think it can’t happen to you, you’re fooling yourself.
Back to the OP, I think that girls need to watch out for guys, because guys are driven to have sex with them at all costs. Also, teen girls have to worry about basically all men, not just the few that they might be interested in. Because basically all men are interested in them.
Guys don’t need to watch out for all women, only the ones that they might be interested in. It’s a physiological thing. But teen guys need to watch out for girls because girls want to have some big dramatic romance and mess up their head, not because of any physical thing. Getting dumped by or involved in some drama with a girl you’re hopelessly infatuated with can cause real trauma for a guy.
And you did get feedback from people older and more experienced than you. Do you think that you’re the only one who has ever been a teenager? I grew up in quite a strict religion, and many of the teenagers were simply unprepared for the onslaught of adulthood and the sudden changes it brought. I saw a lot of people do complete 180’s as far as their behaviour went, including with myself. People change, ideas change, situations change. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for your mother to warn you to watch out for yourself. A lot of guys will try to get in your pants, and she was just warning you. The “older and obviously more experienced” people here will tell you the same thing that your mother did. Date rape is far more common than you probably think, and some of those nice religious boys are capable of things you don’t think they would do.
Blowing up at your mother seems like a pretty immature thing to do. I can honestly say that when my dad gave me the same talk (my mom died when I was little, or I’m sure it would have been her talking to me), I sat down and calmly reassured him that I could hopefully take care of myself, and thanked him for caring and told him that I understood his concerns.
Hello Tempestuous Tory!
Uh, I agree with you.
I do know about pregnancy and rape, and therefore acknowledge what the other posters have said.
I still agree with you. I think the biggest, most destructive hurts you can put on a person are emotional hurts that strike at them when they are vulnerable as a result of being sexually and romantically peeled wide open.
Thank you for caring. I still think your sex gets the rotten end of the stick in general but that in no way erases your point.
My mom told me to look out for sluts, then handed me $50.
Uncle Bill???
I look at it from a different view. The desire to reproduce is one of the stongest forces IMO. And there are very old, ancient (animal like) parts of the male brain which tell the male, “reproduce with as many females as possible.” The higher levels of thinking which occur in the exterior region of the brain block out a good deal of this primordial wiring. But say go to a bar and you will see guys in their purest form (drinking removes the higher levels of thought and makes us guys more animalistic). Now a few days ago I went to a really crowded bar in Boston. I’d look near the entrance and see 2 ladies walk in…then, thirty seconds later, see 10 guys swarming around them.
It comes down to the powerful drive for a species to replicate itself. Say you have an island. 19 males and 1 female. Increasing the population would be very slow and probably doomed for failure. Now invert the situation: Say you have 19 females and 1 male. …I think you get the idea. So it’s not hard to concieve why guys are wired this way. Males want to get into females’ pants (especially when drunk) to facilitate the ancient life force to replicate the species.
Watch out for the guys, ladies!
Personally I prefer many women, but, then again I haven’t found that special someone yet. 
Anyways, does this sorta answer your question??