{"id":1216,"date":"2004-06-08T00:16:53","date_gmt":"2004-06-08T00:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/06\/08\/friends_with_benefits.html"},"modified":"2004-06-08T00:16:53","modified_gmt":"2004-06-08T00:16:53","slug":"friends_with_benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/06\/08\/friends_with_benefits.html","title":{"rendered":"friends with benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damn, the NYTimes has been really compelling lately.  And their <a href=\"http:\/\/worldnetdaily.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38665\">apology about their coverage of the Iraq war<\/a> makes me think i should re-acquire my subscription (i cancelled it because i was peeved with their coverage after 9\/11).<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, over the weekend, the NYTimes ran an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/05\/30\/magazine\/30NONDATING.html?ei=5007&#038;en=b8ab7c02ae2d206b&#038;ex=1401249600&#038;partner=USERLAND&#038;pagewanted=all&#038;position=\">friends with benefits<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a fascinating article about teenage relationships and i really want to know how common the described practices are.  I mean, if girls are really calling the shots about sex, what are the long-term implications?  Damn that&#8217;s rad.  If girls are calling the shots, will it help combat HIV?  (Historically, male pressure to not use condoms has put women at great risk in hetero relationships.)  And if a matter-of-fact attitude about sex is emerging, can we begin to be more serious about realizing that marriage is just a contract, not some hormone-driven fantasy about love?  If this is actually true, what all falls out?<\/p>\n<p>And is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facethejury.com\/\">FaceTheJury<\/a> facing the jury because of aiding and ebedding teens under the guise of an 18+ site?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn, the NYTimes has been really compelling lately. And their apology about their coverage of the Iraq war makes me think i should re-acquire my subscription (i cancelled it because i was peeved with their coverage after 9\/11). Anyhow, over the weekend, the NYTimes ran an article on friends with benefits. It&#8217;s a fascinating article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youth-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}