to Thucydides.
you should wait till college where you can start over. usually highschool relationships don't work out especially when college is just around the corner, long distance absolutely sucks. at college no one cares about who you were at college, and if they do then they are still living a highschool life. if you aren't going to college, again, wait, and people forget things and if those girls are your friends, they know who you really are.

What does sex play in the role of society?

Do you know why people want to have sex? Because that is how nature encourages us to reproduce, and therefore continuing our species.
Obviously it isn't the whole answer, as we are quite different as we often have intercourse for the sake of intercourse. It can be explained by social needs. I won't disclose more.

Nature wants... Hmmm... Sounds suspiciously like this "nature" is some kind of entitiy with wants and desires, not a set of laws that govern how things happen in the universe. Yet another argument FOR a Creator.

Or maybe it's something a little less... obvious than a creator, no?
A stream of consciousness?

OK, maybe not a creator, but a form of intelligence outside the realm of our understanding. It wants, therefore it must think on some level and have some amount of intelligence.

humans and dolphins are the only living things that have sex for fun...and pigs can have orgasms that last for up to 30 minutes

Bonobos have sex all the time!

Budgies/Parakeets and Finches will simulate gay sex if two males are kept in thte smae cage. They'll nest and cuddle up and more...

"the same cage". Dang I can't type today.

I have gotten around the "friend trap" on two occasions. HAha suckers. Granted, those have also been my only two relationships. I agree completely with curly about waiting. There aren't enough young adults willing to wait for a longer lasting "trusting" relationship these days. Not that I have anything against nearly every one of my friends.

I think that many parents in the US are afraid that their children are too immature, too emotional, with intelligences not fully realized, and decision making skills not fully realized. I think parents want their children to understand that sex is more than just a way to have pleasure, and if they see it too much in the media at a young age, then children often have trouble realizing this.

There are nearly as many people against more violence in the media. You could argue that our society regulates both fairly evenly; its just parents don't take violence in video games and TV seriously, or they don't have the time.

I agree with Xapi's advice for Thuc. Honesty is easily the most useful strategy in a long term relationship.