ihavebeenfloated

I know this is really old news, like really old at this point, but I thought it was just too interesting to not mention. Professors a few colleges decided to map out the sexual conquests of students at a specific High School, seeing if any sorts of pattern emerges or, really, just what the graph would look like. The article is slightly interesting, but what is even more interesting is the sex map itself.

Based on the data from that map, out of 832 high school students, you only have two homosexual experiences. One being a guy having relations with another guy, in addition to eight girls. The other being one girl having relations with another girl, in addition to two guys. Kind of crazy. You have to wonder how accurate that data is, considering the (popular) statistical belief is that homosexuality varies from as large as 10% of the population (Yay Kinsey!) to as small as 1% of the population (Boo Smith), which would put the number of homosexual/bisexual experiences somewhere around 8-80 of the students.

So where are all the homosexuals? I’ll tell you where they are: They’re not telling those professors jack shit. What high school kid is going to tell some random person they’re fucking guys? (Or girls, for that matter.) I don’t know about you, but if I was having sex with my kind in high school, I wouldn’t have told anyone for fear of getting the shit beat out of me by everyone within a 10 mile radius.

On the other hand, I’m glad the window of homosexuality in that study is so, so, so ridiculously small. All the homosexual community would need at this point is some religious right activist asshole waving the study around with some sort of made up statistic about how the homosexual students, on average, had more sex with people than the heterosexual students. Etc, etc.

The article does make an interesting point. There exists a rule in adolescent high school sex that goes, as quoted from the article, like this: A girl is loath to date her old boyfriend’s new girlfriend’s old boyfriend. Don’t worry, it took me a minute to wrap my mind around it as well.

What this ends up contributing to is a wider spread of sexual relations. High school is a lot different from life outside of school. In my experience, you’re lucky to get a gathering of 100 people together outside of high school, and even if you do, the chances of any of them deviating from their small groups of 2-6 people is extremely tough. In high school, however, you have something like over one thousand students all packed into a small area, spending nearly all day together, and the cliques in high school are generally much larger, being as big as 10-20 people a group.

Further more, it’s extremely easy in high school to know a lot of people, even if you don’t communicate with them. This makes it so simple to find someone new to have sex with. The aforemention rule all but makes it impossible to have sex in the same social circles, so you end up sleeping with a new person from the other side of the school. The chance to spread STDs throughout a single high school is ridiculously easy when you look at it that way.

High school is a dangerous place to be fucking people, I’m glad I never got into it. (Hey, look, finally I have a reason to be happy about not ever getting laid in high school! I can stop cutting myself now!)

Everyone parades public schools as a marvelous introduction to the social aspect of life outside of high school, but it doesn’t really. As stated in the article, such social conventions as that sex rule don’t exist outside of school.

So why don’t we make school more like real life? You start the students in sixth grade with certain class of students. You engineer the group so it’s racially and culturally diverse. You’ve got an average class size for California, say, 40 students, which is still too high of a number but you know, California’s education system rocks.

Anyway, you keep this group of 40 students together for the final six years of school. That’s it. That’s all they got. You’re practically forcing them to bond. There isn’t any of this stuff where you have a new group of friends in every class, it’s a lot harder to form concentrated cliques when you’re on lunch, and you’re pretty much forcing the students to accept each other.

This, to me, mirrors the working life of a common person. You end up forced into a group of people you might not be comfortable with, and you pretty much just learn that you either have to learn to like these people, or just learn how to work with them. Eventually you all might become friends, and that’s it. That’s your social life.

I don’t know why I hadn’t thought of this sooner.

There’s my brain dump for the night.