• girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
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    2 hours ago

    I would never want to be a teenager now. Like having casual sex can give lifelong diseases, the right wing bearing down on everyone’s freedoms (except theirs ofc), hitchhiking is a death trap, etc etc.

    If I was growing up now I probably wouldn’t make it to 20.

    • catloaf@lemm.ee
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      1 hour ago

      There have been STDs probably as long as there’s been sex. But now we might just be able to cure HIV. And we’ve been able to cure the other ones with antibiotics for a long time. And condoms are cheap, available, and socially encouraged.

      Interestingly, young people are actually having less casual sex anyway.