Pop Culture Promiscuity: Chapter 6

This chapter about teens being sexually active and promiscuous was very interesting to me.  The media and certain adults claim that teens are becoming sexually active at younger ages.  However, teens having sex was common years ago.  I remember that my grandmother married my grandfather at fifteen and she had her first baby at the age of sixteen.  I think if that happened today, people would think that wasn’t an okay thing to do.  I also found it interesting that numerous teens don’t “sext” each other.  It is mainly adults that converse back and forth by “sexting.”  In addition, many teens today dress a lot differently, for example, short shorts and revealing their stomachs.  As a result, I can see why individuals would assume a teen is having sex by the way they dress, even though they may not be.   Ultimately, I don’t think that pop culture is the reason for people engaging in sex; I believe it just depends on the person.