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Sex at School Increasing, Some Educators Say

"Maybe I'm a naive parent," said Ted Hauffe, whose son, Daniel, is on the football team, "but I will say my kid would never participate" in group sex.

As to warning teenagers off sex, he said, "You can preach that as a parent, and hopefully they will listen to you, but when it comes to that particular moment of passion, what are you going to do?"


Osbourn High School senior Tim Blank said fellow football players were angry with the boys involved in an incident in which students had oral sex or intercourse at school because their suspensions threatened the team's season.
Osbourn High School senior Tim Blank said fellow football players were angry with the boys involved in an incident in which students had oral sex or intercourse at school because their suspensions threatened the team's season. (By Joel Richardson -- The Washington Post)

Blank's father, Bryan Blank, said that compared with when he was young, "Society is more open. You see two women kissing on MTV. You have things talked about, like 'straight versus gay.' "

Asked whether the incident related to any cultural trend or had any deeper meaning, a group of boys watching the T.C. Williams field hockey game scoffed. "It means there's eight weirdos around," said Alex Haitsuka,17, a junior.

"I'd become very unaroused" at the sight, he added. "Nine hundred out of 901 people would not want to be involved."

Matt Killeen, 18, a senior, said he also found it shocking.

"Can't you just wait till you're at home?" he asked.

Staff writers Maria Glod, Daniel Lyght, Theola S. Labbe and Ylan Mui and researcher Magda Jean-Louis contributed to this report.


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