Biological Mandate COVID

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The WSJ has an article out today "Why the Teenage Brain Pushes Young People to Ignore Virus Restrictions". It's behind a paywall, but the jist is "Tagged as irresponsible for socializing in big groups, teens and twentysomethings are grappling with a ‘biological mandate’ to see friends and colleagues"

At the end: "While he agrees there is a biological drive toward socialization in people his age, he says, “I struggle to see it as a valid argument.”

So this is my kind of reluctance story, where the protagonist knows she shouldn't, but each day the yearning grows and grows (aka cabin fever) until one day she hears of a party that Max will be at and can't resist. Sneaking out of the house while Mom and Dad are blitzed, she and her bestie find the party. Already feeling naughty for breaking the lockdown, when her bestie starts making out with a guy, she starting making out with Max, swept away by all those repressed feeling rushing out, ending up on a bed with both couples getting their freak on.

 

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One of the regulars here, I am embarrassed to have forgotten who, has in their signature block the line, Just because it’s a bad idea doesn’t mean we won’t have fun doing it!