Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.235.154.24-20130913002452/@comment-11687-20131030201929

173.60.95.163 wrote: I like this guy. He has made a convincing argument.

My thanks, anon!

You also noted something that I'd overlooked before, which was that sexual activity among teenagers, particularly those without sexual education and without protection, is likely to be disproportionally high compared to the general population. That means that the presumed high amount of sexual activity among the students of Beacon, coupled with the also-presumed lack of sexual education (and possible lack of adequate means of protective measures being instituted), poses a not-insignificant drain on their ability to maintain highly combat-effective force.

One silver lining here is that instances of sexual violence (in terms of females being assaulted by males) are likely lower at Beacon than among the general population, thanks to the women all having intensive training in defending themselves. Even considering that the male population has similar combat training, this is likely to considerably lessen the number of sexual assaults - both attempted and successful - against Beacon's female students.

Of course, every silver lining has a cloud; in this case, it's that combat training offers little help against sexual coercion, as opposed to violent sexual assault (with a possible exception). In these cases, women are best able to protect themselves via a strong sense of assertiveness (which is likely to be helped by having highly-developed combat techniques - though this is a generalization, rather than a rule, e.g. Velvet Scarlatina) and a low degree of alcohol consumption - which, in this case, depends on the legal drinking age in Vale, and whether or not Beacon is a dry campus (given the lack of alcohol consumption in episodes so far, either Beacon is such a campus, or the students are all under the legal drinking age).

(I must reiterate here that I am not trying to suggest that women who lack assertiveness, or become intoxicated, are at all to blame for being coerced into an unwanted sexual encounter. Rather, that the above research notes a high degree of correlation between assertiveness/intoxication and instances of sexual coercion.)

Given all of the above, we can make a fairly well-reason set of presumptions regarding the prevalence of sex among the students of Beacon, and the consequences thereof.

To reiterate, there's probably a lot of sex going on. Putting a population of young people who don't know any better - due to a lack of developed skills for judging long-term consequences, and a lack of proper sex education - in close proximity means that there's a not-inconsiderable amount of sex likely happening among the student population.

Unfortunately, this means that unless protection is being distributed (and so far there's no way to know if there is or not), then sexually-transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancies are not rare problems. That said, the female student body is probably among the safest demographic of women in regards to being sexually victimized; sexual assaults will be comparatively rare, as will attempts to coerce them into sex (though the latter will be more frequent than the former).

The bottom line is that a lot of (consentual) sex is likely happening among Beacon's students. The major question is if the administration is ignoring it, or trying to make sure it's safe.