Letters to the Editor
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Love Hurts
I don't know, but I remember EVERYONE suffering for love in highschool and pining for someone.
I was in "love" with my male best friend who was in "love" with our female best friend who was in "love" with this girl who went to public school. I remember the three of us wandering seperately on the beach after our juinor prom (which we decided to go to as a group in order to forestall any jealousy) the wind blowing, weeping at the cruelty of young love. Dear Lord; my life as a teenager was like the last few minutes of a CW show. All I needed was some alternacrap playing in the background. It's embarassing.
But the truth is, that guys, like girls at that age, feel things so keenly. It's impossible to differentiate between physical attraction and true love because you've never felt anything to compare it to. Liftetime movies aside (I mean, how many of them show teenagers screwing each other like rabbits) I think it's true that the vast majority of teenage boys and girls want to have a significant other, want to have sex with someone they care about, etc. They sell sex hard in the media, but they also sell the whole idea of "true love" and that's been sold much longer.
Now I do beleive college boys and girls are a bunch of horn dogs...mostly because they've had few years to get their hearts broken. I don't think anyone I knew every had a steady boyfriend and girl friend in college; all they did was hook-up.