Who attends raves?
A typical raver is male or female. The predominant age range varies by locality; for example, in the Midwest most ravers are 18 to 22 years old, while in the San Francisco Bay Area they are 17 to 30. Ravers are generally people who are into alternative aspects of culture. They may or may not be heterosexual. Many are college students. Some ravers may be as young as 13 or as old as 50. Most ravers do not listen to techno music all the time. Many use raves as escapes — weekend excursions — from the ir otherwise stressful or mundane school and home lives. People have all kinds of reasons for participating in raves, and for most there is a combination of alluring factors, not just one. At the very least, it can be said that people who have a good time at raves will keep coming back. In the United States, racial diversity at raves tends to reflect the diversity of the general population. That is to say, raves and ravers do not discriminate across a color line, on the whole. Everyone looks
