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According to some of my self-styled liberal American friends, they find themselves more and more like their own parents as they deal with their kids. The latest is underage sex, which is apparently increasingly "normal" in the current teenage generation. One of my friends confronted his eleven-year-old daughter who revealed she doesn't actually have sex, she only performs an act on "them" that a certain ex-President also considered to be not sex. The "them" is a group of unemployed youths who sponge off their parents and hang around outside the school socialising (?!) with younger girls.

These parents want to be progressive and cool, but they can't get past the idea that these younger girls are at risk of being taken advantage of by predatory men. And yet their daughters insist that it is consensual and that there is no victim. What to do? It isn't easy for people who were at the forefront of progressive change to find themselves playing a more "conservative" tune. But that's the reality of it.