A further clarification-- If the request had come from a teenage boy, I'd have felt worse about saying no but still would have. I might have offered a different reason on the public record for the rejection so that he'd later have the option of omitting to mention his age in his profile. I don't know, but I suspect that I'd have been influenced by the fact that the address was a town in the midwest that I've never heard of.
I have some sympathy for teens being curious about sex of any type, in general. I just get cranky when they're stupid about it and don't consider how what they're doing affects other people. I have a lot more sympathy for kids who're realizing that they've got some level of same sex attraction (or who know that they do) and can't find books that show what they're experiencing. I still get cranky when they don't think about other people (as teenagers often don't) but understand the desperation more.
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Date: 2008-05-07 01:04 pm (UTC)I have some sympathy for teens being curious about sex of any type, in general. I just get cranky when they're stupid about it and don't consider how what they're doing affects other people. I have a lot more sympathy for kids who're realizing that they've got some level of same sex attraction (or who know that they do) and can't find books that show what they're experiencing. I still get cranky when they don't think about other people (as teenagers often don't) but understand the desperation more.
Does that make sense?