1. Touchy-feely. Keep the creepy guys away from the newbies! I'm just saying. But yes -- my young friends (relatives, mostly; 16-19 at this point) who confide in me have a very post-sexual-revolution attitude toward sex and touching and whatnot. Sex is another thing, and since it's somewhat out there, it's not as mysterious; having random people wandering up and touching you is not exciting or liberating or something, it's random people wandering up and copping a feel. So, yeah. I think we're back into what looks from here like a more prudish cycle, I think it's more like "been there, seen that on the 'net since I was 6, not interested" cycle. Or I could be overanalyzing.
2. Going off campus. I'm a generation of college-dwellers behind you, and I think at this point the newbies are almost a generation behind me; but In My Day, we didn't go off campus for hell or high water. There was a three month period, between Fall Break and Christmas, where I realized I hadn't been off campus at *all* (except to Denny's, and that was 50 feet off campus). If something didn't happen on campus, it didn't happen; we went to the odd event at Myrkfaelinn or something, but that was well after I was entrenched in the group.
Of course, I think it depends on the place. Obviously with, say, MIT, you can't avoid going off campus. My undergrad, it was a half-mile walk to the campus edge, or a mile if you wanted to get anywhere interesting.
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Date: 2005-08-02 09:37 pm (UTC)1. Touchy-feely. Keep the creepy guys away from the newbies! I'm just saying. But yes -- my young friends (relatives, mostly; 16-19 at this point) who confide in me have a very post-sexual-revolution attitude toward sex and touching and whatnot. Sex is another thing, and since it's somewhat out there, it's not as mysterious; having random people wandering up and touching you is not exciting or liberating or something, it's random people wandering up and copping a feel. So, yeah. I think we're back into what looks from here like a more prudish cycle, I think it's more like "been there, seen that on the 'net since I was 6, not interested" cycle. Or I could be overanalyzing.
2. Going off campus. I'm a generation of college-dwellers behind you, and I think at this point the newbies are almost a generation behind me; but In My Day, we didn't go off campus for hell or high water. There was a three month period, between Fall Break and Christmas, where I realized I hadn't been off campus at *all* (except to Denny's, and that was 50 feet off campus). If something didn't happen on campus, it didn't happen; we went to the odd event at Myrkfaelinn or something, but that was well after I was entrenched in the group.
Of course, I think it depends on the place. Obviously with, say, MIT, you can't avoid going off campus. My undergrad, it was a half-mile walk to the campus edge, or a mile if you wanted to get anywhere interesting.