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MW13, I put key words in caps, ebcause I want to emphasize them in the way I do when I am saying those words aloud.
You also presume incorrectly about me. I never said there are no inherent yetzer hara for arayos in people. What I (thought I had) distinctly said is that that taivah becomes more obvious when the genders do not mix in a natural way. When children grow up in a naturally mixed environment, they do not look at each other the same way that that someone does who has never been allowed to have a normal social relationship with a female or male (depending on their opposite gender). Of course ALL people have taivos for arayos, if we did not, the species would not continue. But the fear some posters here have of boys and girls having a normal conversation with each other in a mixed group, seems to me to be unnecessary. Most kids who are brought up frum, have a strong moral core (that 60% thing is nonsense, and motzi shem ra on 60% of our frum kids). If you don’t believe that, then don’t. My experience tells me that my observations are reasonable.