Everything that Laura Ingraham says about teens and young people with no apparent sense of shame or boundaries is worrying and disturbing, but I wonder if in some ways we exaggeratehow much things change. For example, Ingraham says, “There was a time when people got dressed up and had conversations to see if they were compatible — now they examine tan lines.” I bet that if given the opportunity, the young people of yesteryear would have preferred checking out tan lines to having a conversation, so technology rather than a ratcheting down of morals leads to debauched and imprudent behaviour. Behaving morally is sometimes less a matter of doing the right thing than it is not having the opportunity to do the wrong thing.
Relatedly, Andrea Mrozek points us to Dorothy Cummings (aka Seraphic Singles) whose book, says Mrozek, is “chockablock full of great advice on how to get on in relationships but more importantly, how to conduct oneself with integrity when not in a relationship and enjoy the life you have.”
