To quote my grandmother: "there's nothing [adolescents] can do at night that they won't do during daytime". The religious right in the US has this strange obse

To quote my grandmother: "there's nothing [adolescents] can do at night that they won't do during daytime". The religious right in the US has this strange obsession with other people's sex life. I think after roughly two millenia of Christians trying to prevent their kids from having extramarital sex it's safe to say that the exercise is ultimately futile and the only thing it's accomplishing is worse outcomes (e.g. STDs, pregnancies and bad decisions). Of course debating that point is entirely useless when the underlying idea is that extramarital (and therefore also teenage) sex is the worst possible outcome in and of itself. It's a failure of humanity that 40-odd thousand years into civilization we still haven't overcome our obsessions with valuing scripture over rational thought.