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High school sex

2005-01-27 17:00:39.508002+00 by Dan Lyke 4 comments

Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends has a long entry that looks at Ohio State research that claims to map the sexual network of an entire high school, with links to the abstract and the full PDF.

The most striking feature of the network was a single component that connected 52 percent (288) of the romantically involved students at Jefferson. This means student A had relations with student B, who had relations with student C and so on, connecting all 288 of these students.

[ related topics: Children and growing up Sexual Culture Maps and Mapping ]

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#Comment For "software" reasons, the story you mentioned has moved made: 2005-01-27 21:24:24.159371+00 by: Roland Piquepaille

Good afternoon,

My yesterday's post about "The Sexual Network of a High School" has moved from http://www.primidi.com/2005/01/26.html to http://www.primidi.com/2005/01/27.html because of a mistake I did when I published my blog yesterday. The former address is no longer valid.

Now your readers can only see a "404 error" if they click on the link you provided, just because I needed to delete yesterday's post. I'm sorry for the inconvenience and I hope you'll be able to update your link.

And thank you in the first place for noticing my blog.

Roland Piquepaille. http://www.primidi.com/

#Comment Sorry, this post has moved made: 2005-01-27 21:26:05.438283+00 by: Roland Piquepaille

Good afternoon,

My yesterday's post about "The Sexual Network of a High School" has moved from http://www.primidi.com/2005/01/26.html to http://www.primidi.com/2005/01/27.html because of a mistake I did when I published my blog yesterday. The former address is no longer valid.

Now your readers can only see a "404 error" if they click on the link you provided, just because I needed to delete yesterday's post. I'm sorry for the inconvenience and I hope you'll be able to update your link.

And thank you in the first place for noticing my blog.

Roland Piquepaille. http://www.primidi.com/

#Comment Re: made: 2005-01-27 21:43:54.998851+00 by: Dan Lyke

Thank you, fixed it.

#Comment Re: made: 2005-01-28 23:59:13.645601+00 by: Shawn [edit history]

An interesting read. I never thought much about the logic that went into who to target for STD education.

I am a bit confused, though. All the text talks about an 18 month period, but the most commonly linked grapic says the pattern shows "relationships occuring within the 6 months preceding the interview".

On a related note, I was treated to rising frustration levels once again the other day when local radio DJs (warning: pop-ups/flash/sound) wrung their hands over the results of Katie Couric's recent special on Teens & Sex. One of the audio clips played had girls discussing why [girls] "give oral", but don't receive it. Most of them said that girls aren't comfortable being the recipient, clarifying that many girls experience low self esteem and don't consider themselves attractivene enough to warrant that attention. This was jumped on immediately, but turned around instead to become an explaination for why they were giving oral sex.

I have yet to see anyone (other than us already established perverts) make a true effort to understand what's going on with our society and its changing views on sexuality. Even the co-author of the study above just assumes that "a large chain like this would boggle [a student's] mind" and that "they probably had no idea of their connections to the network" instead of actually asking.

I've said it all along and I'll continue to stand by my assertion that minors are smarter and wiser than our society gives them credit for.