Liam Walsh '18 , Page Editor March 22, The late-night Snapchat, the 3 a. The conversation about hookups and sexual encounters have become less of an enigma and more commonplace, according to sociology teacher Sandi Siemaszko.
According to Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance, 47 percent of high schoolers have had sex and 34 percent are sexually active. Actions of students are based on their values and morals, and those values and morals help people create groups of friends who share those values, Siemaszko said.
According to Siemaszko, hookups arise out of human nature and the need to be with others. According to Pew Research Center, 50 percent of teens aged between 13 and 17 have let someone know they were romantically interested over social media. Todd Hecker is a new teacher this year at South, after previously teaching for 19 years at North Farmington High School.
Hecker said South is not that different in sexual promiscuity than his old school. Hecker, I did whatever over the weekend. While it may be considered normal, Kado said, it can have some unintended and negative consequences.
According to a study in the National Library of Medicine, 63 percent of college aged men and 83 percent of women are looking for more of a relationship than a casual encounter. In the United States, one in six boys and one in four girls have been sexually abused before the age of 18, according to the National Sex Offender Public website nsopw.
