I could point to two books by Sherry Turkle, one by danah boyd, another by Lenore Skenazy and still another by Bill McKibben that demonstrate that teenagers these days are far less likely to be allowed in the company of other teenagers. Are kids somehow less hormonal? So they're having less sex why? Well, porn's free and unlimited, for starters. For another thing, to have sex you need two people unsupervised and that's getting trickier and trickier every single day. Lenore Skenazy would look at this same data and throw study after study after study to indicate that the guy you need to thank is John Walsh: The world is vastly safer but parents are vastly more terrified and the end result is cloistered kids. Teenagers like to impress their peers. Who do you have to impress when you're online drinking alone? No one.
