America Still In The Dark About Sex

Hartford Courant ^ | May 30 2002 | GARRET CONDON

[2Trievers]

We are fixated by pedophile priests. Fashion ads are soft porn. Primetime pulses with the sexploits of its young characters. The Internet burns with broadband erotica. Pop lyrics are explicit. And Viagra's numbers are going up - more than 10 million men across the country have taken it.

America, like some randy teenager, is oozing sex. Unfortunately, like the same teenager, it is incredibly ignorant about sex.

[2Trievers]

Hanging it out there! &;-)

[Russell Scott]

This can all be boiled down to one sentence.

Hebrews 13:4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Let God be true, and all the tower of psycho-babel carnal confusion be liars.

[AmericaUnited]

Amen!

[valkyrieanne]

In other words, because many Americans think it's wrong for teenagers to have adult sexual partners, or be homosexual (or both), we're "ignorant about sex."

This article is an example of name-calling substituting for argument.

[LadyDoc]

"That is quite a lot of people," she said. "If it were [always] harmful, I think we'd see a lot more screwed-up kids.

COme to my office, lady, and see them.

Many people in AA were abused as kids. Many of my druggies were abused and turned to drugs to ease the pain. Some of my lesbian patients were abused, as were some of my women who are on their sixth or seventh common law husband. The fact that not ALL get screwed up means only that people are more resilient: Not ALL women who are raped end up messed up. Not everyone who lives thru a war or even was in a concentration camp ends up "screwed up". But that doesn't mean it's a good experience.

[UbIwerks]

The article also talks about the "pioneering work" of Dr. Kinsey and laments that it couldn't be done today.

I hope that the process of bringing little infants to orgasm (actually cries of agony) with pedophiles doing the stopwatch time wouldn't be done today, but, somehow, in these immoral times I doubt it.

[Brandybux]

The central perversion of this pitiful piece of journalism is the way it calmly advances the agenda of mainlining pedophilia and sexual relations by adults with physically mature (but legally minor) teenagers.

Note how Christians -- exemplified by up-tight Catholics and moralistic James Dobson -- are branded as obstructionists, at fault for all the sexual ignorance in which America is awash. Note the favorable citations of pro-pedophilia advocates and researchers, who, it would seem, are only trying to push back the borders of ignorance and intolerance.

Say, how about this --

"We know that many children recover from alcoholic binges by the time they are adults. What's needed is research into those who do not recover, so we may provide adequate treatment for them. But, at the same time, we must not demonize alcoholic binges in children."

or, this ...

"We know that most children recover from forced labor in dark factories by the time they are adults. What's needed is research into th ose who do not recover, so we may be sure their forced labor as children is a positive experience. At the same time, we must not demonize the forced labor of children in factories."

[goldstategop]

Of course sex is more than just the physical joining of body parts. How long did it take researchers to come to the conclusion about the obvious? Its something that's been around for a long time but then again the academic ivory tower types don't feel comfortable handling subjective issues like love, affection, commitment, and marriage. No wonder America is still in the dark about the final unexplored sexual frontier.

[ValerieUSA]

This article is disgusting. It portrays everyone with self-respecting and loving morals as a backwards prude and the promiscuous sexual experimenters as enlightened experts instead of as the sick abusers they are. STDs and AIDS are not the fault of Christian activists, but the blame lies at their feet because they oppose the deceptive propaganda that condoms facilitate "safe sex" for teens.
Unpopular as it seems, the questions of right and wrong do apply to sexual relationships, and so should judgement. "Anything goes" and "If it feels good, do it" are dangerous, uncivilized sexual policies that take people back to the dark ages where no woman or child was safe from rape.

[Windsong]

You use the word "abused" a lot. What contitutes "abuse" in your view? Does spanking, say, with a leather belt? Just curious..

[Publius6961]

Mixed feelings BUMP

[yendu bwam]

Let's see: Total unbridled sex whenever we have the urge (the mantra of many parts of society today) - or restraint (admittedly tough) and integration of sex with love in a committed for life marriage. The first has brought disease, horrendous psychological problems, child and teenage abuse (even in places like the Catholic Church), broken marriages and relationships, etc. etc. The second brings deep and wonderful fulfillment and companionship and partnership in life, parenthood and inner peace. It's truly a great shame that we insist in so many places (even now in many churches) that just because we have the physical urge, the first must be better than the second. We can do better by our children.

[VRWC_minion]

Does spanking, say, with a leather belt?

Not as long as its two consenting adults.

[Sender]

It's often difficult to study and understand why people want the things they do in sex; why some people are excited by the same sex, or by children, or by shoes, etc. I don't think most people have control over these desires, whatever may cause them.

It's much clearer and easier to state what people just plain shouldn't do, because it's harmful or risky or destructive.

[Cowgirl]

Our society is in the pit. My husband came home yesterday and say the guys at work were talking about the sex-capades going on at the Lake of the Ozarks here in Missouri. They said they were having sex right out in the open and the girls were naked everywhere. He said one guy was taking pictures of it. For the last couple years we have heard on local TV news that the "party cove" was a wild crowd and people were complaining about them getting drunk and acting up. Apparently, they no longer complain but have decided to be the next "summer break" party area. This article just shows that people are being primed to accept even further depravity in the near future.

[MamaTexan]

She pretty much gave herself away as a Clintonista on this one-

Simply because the kid said she was willing doesn't mean it was consensual

consent; to agree
willing; agreeable

Miz Levine, children don't have the judgement to AGREE to sex!

[John O]

Levine observed that about 10 percent of teenage girls and gay teenage boys have sexual relationships with partners who are five or more years older.

Is that 10% of the girls and all the 'gay' boys.

"That is quite a lot of people," she said. "If it were [always] harmful, I think we'd see a lot more screwed-up kids.

Well it seems all the above mentioned boys are screwed up. they are afflicted with SAD.

GSA(P)

[John O]

Other experts suggest other knowledge gaps, including women's sexuality, sexual behavior among racial and ethnic minorities, normal adolescent sexuality, deviant practices such as pedophilia, and the effectt of the Internet on sex and relationships.

Why didn't they include the deviant practice of homosexual behavior? Or are these 'experts' just so compromised that they don't recognize truth?

GSA(P)

[Rodney King]

Why is it that those who think we are too uneducated about sex already have their minds up that the solution is guilt-free sex for and between everyone?

[Kevin Curry]

Researchers and authors are "tarred with the label of advocating pedophilia" if they suggest that sexuality is part of the lives of children and adolescents, said Levine.

I.e., certain influential "progressive" thinkers are working hard to convince society that adult-child sex can be a good and natural thing and are being "unfairly" accused of advocating pedophilia for their efforts. Imagine that.

This is just more bitter and foul fruit from the tree that gay activists planted over thirty years ago.