Interesting take on social issue

After watching the sequence of events from "Innocence" and the episode prior, it's interesting to ponder the impact these episodes could have had on the show's target audience, teenage girls.

High school is a time when sex is practically force fed to you, whether it be friends, movies(I remember the American Pie movies being huge when I was in h.s) or any other media outlet. It's nice to see that Buffy shows that yeah, you can have sex, but there will be consequences and often(especially when it involves high school aged people) they are not the most pleasant.

Shows often don't stances on social issues, and while this particular instance was a bit subtle, at the same it wasn't. I don't believe that every high school girl watching this show was convinced to save her virginity after watching "Innocence" but I would think some percentage of the audience at least looked at the consequences and made some sort of connection in their mind. Of course, high school girls aren't exactly the most logical people on the planet so maybe I'm over-estimating them.