I attended BYU-I in person for three years. There was a lot of dumb s### that happened there, but I can say with confidence this wasn't one of them. To not be a buzzkill though, I'll share an actual saying that people use around campus: "BYU I do." Because like 80-90% of students there expect to be married by the time they graduate.

[–] RobertoOberto@sh.itjust.works 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Thanks for the insight - jump humping and soaking sound like the kind of bullshit my parents would believe because it was featured in some local news story.

Most "teen trends", especially those related to sex, are just wildly blown out of proportion "stories" based on a couple of people trying something weird, someone else hearing about it, and now suddenly all the teens are doing it.

It reminds me of being in high school when my mom asked me if my girlfriend's jelly bracelets were a sex thing because she heard about girls owing sex acts to guys who can break one.

[–] evranch@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago

I never heard of the jelly bracelet thing, but now I'm thinking about how that sort of thing can be way stronger than it looks.

I have some TPU filament that's stretchy enough to feel flimsy, but after I realized I somehow couldn't snap it, it became kind of a strength challenge. The strongest guy I know couldn't snap it, and he bent a 36" pipe wrench once. But then again, there weren't sex acts on the line.

[–] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

It's a repression thing, they can't face having sexual fantasies of their own so their mind tricks them into thinking they're super interested in every news story about wild sex things - suddenly they're up all night imagining wild and perverted things that are probably happening, but not because they like thinking about those things they reassure themselves, they're a good moral person trying to protect civic morality...

Read interviews with satanic panic people, endless vivid details right out of an extreme romance novel. Tiktok human trafficking panic is another example, those videos with obviously made up warnings about sex rings and kidnapping methods - it's all structured just like it's porn equivalents.

[–] Kase@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Out of curiosity, did most of the people there actually follow the no sex rule? I know at some of the Christian colleges I've been to, there are lots of people who do have sex, they just have to be secretive enough about it. Of course, a good portion of kids at those colleges were just pressured to go there by their families, but aren't that religious themselves. 🤷

I don't know any Mormons, so idk if it's remotely similar at a school like BYU.