Morals: Ah, Wilderness
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Oddly enough, Packard, who has made his life's work the shattering of middle-class shibboleths, seeks a solution to the problem in an almost belligerently bourgeois codification of behavior. It is his version of situation ethics. Three elements should be present, he says, before society bestows its approval on premarital sex: 1) "That a deep friendship based upon substantial acquaintance exists between the man and the girl," 2) "That both are out of high school; and if college is planned, that they have completed the first year of college if they are still teen-agers," and 3) "That they hope to marry, and their best friends know of the hope."
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