Friends Of The Opposite Sex In High School?

fmdog44

fmdog44

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Todays young people seem to hang out in sexually mixed groups of friends. We never, ever did this when I was in HS and before and seldom after. How bout others here?
 

I did, as in go with a group of girls and guys (we were all regular friends).

Started happening in senior-high and continued for a short time after graduation.
 
I was fortunate in having the gal next door growing up. We were the same age and became the very best of friends. After our separate dates in HS we'd sit up to all hour eating popcorn and talking about anything and everything. She was the best friend I've ever had. Her passing away suddenly at age 53 still makes my heart ache.
 
in my high school days, the girls hung out with her girlfriends and the boys hung out with their gang of guys. If it was a mixed group, it was usually two or three couples going out together.

By my daughter's High School Days, there was quite a bit of going out in groups. When my granddaughter was in high school, they mostly went out in groups. In fact, they went to most dances in mixed groups. Not as much actual dating was going on.
 
We were hormone filled teenagers, so yeah we were aware of the opposite sex. In school, both boys and girls mingled together. But off school property, boys tended to hang out with boys, and girls tended to hang out with girls. A boy could associate with a girl romantically, and that was OK with his boy brothers. There was some discussion if the boy spent too much time away from the bros. And the same with girls. It was kind of fluid.
 
I think it depends on what you considered friends. The people I hung out with a lot outside of school were guys. I wasn't much of a dater so I only dated a couple of young women in high school. The only thing I did one on one with the young women in high school was date.

I was never a partier and never really had a group I hung out with on a regular basis outside of school other than my small group of male friends. I did hang out in the physics lab and the computer lab with mixed groups but there were only a few young women who also hung out there. The physics lab group headed down to Stanford to see a lecture by some of the writers for National Lampoon in '74 or '75 and there were a couple of young women in the group then. One of them was a bit sheltered and was rather taken aback about the topics covered in the lecture and some of the stories that were shared.
 
I and all of my friends never paled around with women. We all had girlfriends and only dated them at night. Occasionally a day at the beach but that was it. After all, half the reason for hanging out with your male friends is you could act as gross and stupid as possible and it was regarded as cool!!



























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Even though I went to an all Girls High School, because of the neighborhood I lived in I had many Boy friends also. On the street where I lived there were at least 10 boys, my age and they all had friends coming over so there were many boys.
 
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