I was 19 or 20 the first time I came here, and a few of the stories I read involved juniors and seniors in high school.

Living in a jurisdiction where students starting prior to 1999 more often than not stayed a 5th year in high school, I didn't see anything odd or immoral in what I was doing. (To be fair though, my definition of immoral involves things like taking sides during the Cold War rather than saying "Fuck them all. I don't want to die for some worthless fascist in Washington or Moscow.")

As a Canadian, I watch what happens South of the border (and in Beijing, for that matter...I don't want them touching our oil reserves. I want our oil industry nationalisedm but I'd rather it belong to the private sector than to a foreign government intent on plundering our resources...Heh...And because I'm fascinated by Sino-Taiwanese politics and also because the politician I admire most is leftist Hong Kong democracy activist Leung Kwok-hung. Hugo Chavez comes in a close second, and I'm very keen on Spain's government as well. ) very carefully, both selfishly (as a profitable small-stakes Internet poker player and as a regular reader of online erotica) and selflessly (As a committed secularist, civil libertarian, and social democrat), and I'm scared as all Hell of what's happening.

Thankfully, more Americans than not are starting to share my fears:

http://www.surveyusa.com/50State2005...tDirection.htm

Hell, even the Mor(m)ons are on board. I guess if you pray to Mormo enough, you really can become as smart as Ken Jennings. (I've had a serious hate-on for the bastards due to the cult's history of White supremacism and extreme social conservatism.)

As for what I read now? Mostly F/m romantic, with some M/f stuff and some non-romantic F/m stuff whenever I see something particularly interesting.