premarital sex
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premarital sex now a days is really open to every body especially to teen agers but do these teen agers know the consequences? i guess no cause if they do they will probably decide not to do it. When Americans ask if pre-marital sex is socially acceptable, especially within a democratic society, the answer lies with what the majority believe. A large portion of the society would have very few qualms about an unmarried couple having sex, so long as that large portion of society was comfortable with the idea. There really are no normative ethical standards, no absolute rights or wrongs in our culture. Under these conditions, how could sex be applied to any moral scrutiny? It is whatever the individual thinks it is. The meaning of sex is what you give to it. But social acceptability is the question, isn't it? In that case the only applicable standard would be something like political correctness...