Week 10 - Response to Harmony's "Week 9: Response to Annie: Wednesday"

While I agree with Harmony that Junior Highers are more exposed to sexuality in media and therefore they know more than we did about the mechanics of sex at their age, I cannot agree that they have a clearer understanding of themselves as sexual beings. In fact, quite the opposite is it at work I believe. The nature of our consumerist, marketing driven culture has obscured the reality of true identity and generated an absurd substitute built upon suggestion and the preponderance of 'cool' and sensuality. Sex has been overly glorified as something that is intrinsically fulfilling and empowering. How can we say that junior highers of any culture have a mature or balanced view of their sexuality yet? How can we make such a claim in a culture such as our's when many adults have a skewed view of sexuality?