I wrote:Seems pretty clear to me that, given a choice, boys would prefer to have sexual access to girls. And to be around girls in general, at least starting pretty early in adolescence. I did not assert (though it may be true) that boys would prefer having sexual access to girls over having sexual access to boys or men. That is not the choice posed by gender segregation. Boys have, without gender segregation, opportunities for sex with each other (and even with men, though these opportunities might well increase with gender segregation). But I meant that boys would prefer having sexual access to girls, and being around girls, over being deprived of such access and over not having girls around. This is the choice gender segregation poses. Boys want to be with other boys and to be around men. They are already around other boys without gender segregation, and means short of gender segregation could be found to bring them into more contact with men, which I think would be a good thing and I think boys would support. What I am suggesting they would mostly not support, regardless of whom they prefer as sexual partners, is being deprived of social contact with females. That is the change that going back to gender segregation would represent, and I think relatively few boys would be supportive of it. (Not to mention what girls might think.) hugzu ;-p ![]() |