A couple of week’s ago I wrote about Jacquelyn Mitchard’s April 13 column re: sex talks with teens in which she promised some answers in a follow-up column. Mitchard’s Part II column, Live in teens’ moment in sex talks, provides it:
“Or you can do what we’ve done in our family: Anybody who abstains through high school gets $500.”
Well, it’s a novel plan, I’ll give her that, but she doesn’t specifically say what activities need to be abstained from to win the prize. I assume oral and vaginal sex but what about second base fondling? Third base digital exploration? And more to the point, what about the relationship… the degree of emotional closeness that the couple may or may have reached? Would she be happy if her sons consistently scheme to get into a girl’s pants on the first date but who refrain from outercourse and intercourse in order to stay in the running for the money? Would she be at all concerned about a son or daughter who dated the same person for two years but who never went further than holding hands and a peck on the face?
You blew this one, Jacquelyn.