Worth the Wait® | Teens | 101 Fun Things To Do (Besides Having Sex):
"10. Play capture the flag.
19. Organize a bake sale or car wash in your neighborhood and donate the proceeds to a school or community project.
43. Volunteer at the local animal shelter, hospital, nursing home or another place that interests you."

Americans are weird. Via Havalais: "As we go further into the site, we learn that “The best time to have sex is when you are an adult in a loving, committed, mutually faithful relationship with another adult person, which for most people is marriage.” Now, in principle, I have to say that I am very happy with this sort of sex. But, on the other hand, I suspect that this sort of sex represents the minority of the “best sex” that happens in America. It is also very much a matter of opinion, not medical fact, that this is “the best time” to have sex. Show me the stats: who have they surveyed to discover that this is the “best time”? Or is it the consensus of medical opinion that the “best sex” happens only between two people for the rest of their lives?
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It’s worth remembering that the leading cause of death among teens in the US is not sex, but car crashes. The only 100% guaranteed way to avoid the death and injuries caused by automobile accidents is to abstain from driving or being a passenger in a motor vehicle."

# May 5, 2004