Very likely some Mrs. Grundy will observe, " I don't believe it, boys will be boys, young men must sow their wild oats, and women must not expect miracles" .
If you believe that " sowing a few wild oats" means that you will be carefree, you may be among the 50 percent of Americans who will at some point have a sexually transmitted disease in your lifetime.
For then they will remain neither boys nor men, neither fish, flesh, nor good red-herring: having learnt a great deal too much, and yet not enough; and sown their wild oats, without having the advantage of reaping them.