rachelhills:

Is this really either shocking or a Bad Thing?

I will give the writers credit for this bit of balance, though:

Not that everyone is doing it, of course. The national Secondary Students and Sexual Health survey in 2002 found that a quarter of year 10 students and half of year 12 students were no longer virgins. Half of school leavers, therefore, had not had intercourse. The La Trobe University researchers say the unreleased 2009 results are similar, with only a slight shift to permissiveness.

I still think the whole “rainbow party” thing is an urban myth, though. Or that it was one until journalists started writing about it breathlessly, and a few people read about it and thought it might be a good idea.

Rainbow parties have always been a myth. You can never get women to wear yellow or green lipstick. Oprah was on crack when she popularised this myth and set up a generation of sexually active men for disappointment.