You know, with all the great thing we have in North American culture, we're really have difficulty sometimes getting the "adult stuff" like sex and alcohol integrated into the experience of young people. The idea that all under 21's should be living in a prohibitionist and chaste nation of their own until some date on the calendar arrives, is pretty unrealistic, isn't it? Then we expect them to emerge with either flawless judgement or the ability to continue to suppress any interest in this stuff till at least their first divorce?

In many parts of the world, 21 year olds are responsible parents of three. I'm not Margaret Meade and I'm not suggesting some second or third world model for raising North Americans. I am asking whether we need to acknowledge that young people are social and sexual beings way before they finish their graduate degrees? Whose discomfort are we really managing when we try to keep them eunuchs and tea totallers? Isn't this the part of life that makes you human, your social and sexual life? Otherwise we're just tax-paying work machines and consumers propping up the dollar? The "moral turpitude" method of social control was old a couple of generations ago, no?