Daily Dosage: Teen jobs lead to extreme sexual experiences
Let's hope he's being supervised.
Apparently, it’s teen health week here at Extreme Self. The latest out-there update on America’s youth comes courtesy of a University of Michigan study. And it makes me wonder, very seriously, where on earth these kids are being sent to earn their spending money.
Researchers followed youth aged 14 to 25 to determine what factors contributed to their choice of sexual partner. The study confirmed my suspicions that older teen dudes go through a super pervy phase of dating 14-year-olds, and alcohol and self-esteem also played a role in teen sex pairings. But it was youth employment status that proved a big surprise:
“Working too many hours in an adult atmosphere without adequate supervision can lead to exposure to adults and eventually sexual activity with older partners, especially for young girls.”
Hold on now. What kinds of adult atmospheres and supervision are we talking about? When I was in high school, I spent five years wearing pleated khaki pants and selling honey crullers to middle-aged truck drivers. I worked 40 hours a week on top of my classes, and my manager spent most of her time crimping her hair in the back office. And trust me, I did not have sex with any of my more senior customers. Or at least not very many of them.
Maybe I’m the exception to the rule, or maybe teenagers in Michigan are involved in some rather extreme employment opportunities. I’m hoping to find out, but these researchers know how to tempt a curious audience – their study abstract is just a teaser, with a full copy available online soon. They’ve probably got a teen working overtime on copy edits. In a dimly-lit, unsupervised office, of course.
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I worked as a server at a steakhouse for a year during high school. Unlike you, I can speak to adult atmospheres in the workplace. There was one late-20s manager who hit on all of the teen-aged hostesses and servers. He succeeded in hooking up with at least one of them. (Not me!)
Oh dear! I guess donut shops are just not as salacious…something about the red meat must bring out the perv.
Spoken like a true vegan.
[...] “Working too many hours in an adult atmosphere without adequate supervision can lead to exposure to adults and eventually sexual activity with older partners, especially for young girls” says a new study. [...]