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From reader Joseph N. DiStefano:

When I was an undergrad, a counselor assigned to Latino students (he was from Chicago) was fired after he had an affair with a tiny undergrad I knew— romanced her with fancy restaurant dinners. I guess that was common in the early era of coeducation— hey, they’re adults!— but by the '80s was starting to be frowned on.

Today the kids are very judgmental. A man trying to get in on undergrads or anyone much younger than himself is aggressively denounced as a creep. More significantly, this seems to prevail at high schools of all kinds, too.

And you know what? I think this is why the average age reported for first sexual intercourse has surprised us all, by rising to 18 from 16 (40 years ago): With fewer men successfully pushing girls, the young people among themselves are not so eager, or more likely socially able, to get it going.

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From reader Alan Richman:

Wow. An extraordinary example of both restraint and power on your part.

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