Sex, drugs and my 15-year-old; A Sex Talk By An Aging Hipster

Gary Kamiya's 15 year old son has been advised by his father that pot is healthier than alcohol, but he should wait a while:

"But you can abuse any drug, including marijuana. It's probably better to wait a while before you try it. Like 'til you're 17 or 18, or in college. The longer you wait, the better."

Regarding other drugs, acid is scary, cocaine is expensive, speed is bad and heroin is addictive.

"But some other drugs aren't as benign as dope," I went on. "Hallucinogens can be really powerful and scary, and cocaine makes you really wired and is bad for your health. Plus people blow all their money on it. And speed is terrible -- don't ever do that. I've never tried heroin, but it's extremely dangerous and addictive."

And sex? No problem, just don't get a disease and avoid getting the girl pregnant.

This family lives in the San Francisco area and Gary writes for Salon. If his son wants to push to boundaries he needs to shoot heroin while having unprotected sex with a diseased hooker.

Good luck on that Gary.

Oh, did Gary mention that he is not

... a Bible-thumper who would freak out if I found out that he had engaged in "premarital sex"

Of course if he had been one of that vanishing breed his cause would have been lost because Gary's son attended the SF school system:

Like every other kid, at least in the San Francisco Bay Area, Zachary has been indoctrinated with earnest warnings and information about AIDS, safe sex and drugs from an early age. In seventh grade, his class practiced putting a condom on a cucumber. In his sophomore year, they moved up to dildos. There were three, one black, one pink, and one clear, which the sex ed teacher named, respectively, Don Juan, Casanova and Clarence. (Clarence?) She advised the girls that if they were planning to steal one, they should take the rubber one (Casanova), because the fiberglass ones would be very uncomfortable.

So even if he was inclined to thump Bibles (or Korans) the government schools would have made that practice futile.

It's an interesting commentary on a slice of our society that those who don't live in the Bay Area don't see. Aging hipsters dancing to ancient bands with their balding heads and paunches taking hits from strangers and then telling their offspring about drugs and sex while high. It's both funny and sad.

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