This post was contributed by a community member. The views expressed here are the author's own. She told me it couldn't be a column telling kids not to do it, but rather to list the Do's and Don'ts if they're gonna do it anyway. Totally anti-sex.
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There are some life events that might feel like they have a ton of unspoken rules around them. Boys HAVE to ask girls out. You have to have a date to go to the big dance. Many of these are innocent rules that enforce gender roles and can be easily broken and they should be. Things get dangerous, however, when these "unspoken rules" lead someone to do something that they don't want to do, that makes them feel uncomfortable, like having sex on prom night. There are a lot of expectations surrounding prom.
Everyone knows that prom exists for one reason: to hook up with your date. But it can definitely feel like that if basically alllllll of pop culture is anything to believe. After my first prom, my date — who was my boyfriend at the time — and I went back to my friend's house. I think there was this unspoken vibe between us that we were going to have sex for the first time, but I got really nervous so I drank a bit, and smoked a ton of pot. My boyfriend was dead sober.
Prom night: It's a memorable and celebrated rite of passage for many teens. And it's the subject of countless teen movies, so everyone's read: parents' perception of the evening might be very far from the truth. So what really goes down on that storied night? Mom and Dad, it might not be as bad as you think While the experiences vary across friend groups and high schools across the country, one thing is clear: Prom is a event all high school kids will remember forever.