> If you had said
>Black=Promiscuity then I can understand
>the fuss. Your original
>post was poverty...

...and race was the basis of your original post:

>I've noticed that people living in
>lower class areas tend to
>lose their virginity earlier than
>mddle or upper class areas.
> For example, most of
>my Black and Arab friends
>from "ghettos" lost their virginity
>a long time ago

What about white or Asian people who are low-income or people of color who are middle/upper class?

>Also I
>saw a statistic that Black
>teenage girls in America were
>more likely (I forgot the
>exact number) than white girls
>to have kids before marriage.

My roommate in college was white, from a middle class family and had to drop out (she was on welfare) to have a baby...out of wedlock. She's not the exception.

> Does anyone know why
>people living in poorer areas
>have more sex? It
>doen't make sense to me.

First, you may have to figure out for yourself what expectations you have of people of color and what cues you communicate about race & class to others. How does this point of view affect your ideas about sex and income?

When responding to the original post I think I subconsciously understood that there was a bias and I addressed it from my experience living with both low income and middle/upper income folks. I ignored the bias and attempted to discuss deeper motivations behind promiscuity.

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