I guess that “horizontal” study of adolescents is in line with Zero’s belief that 26 year olds are adolescents not adults.
It seems to me that the boys are not becoming men; and the girls are not beoming ladies.
Maybe the “horizontal” study should be dubbed the “whorizontal” study.
All the virtues are connected. Get rid of one, all the others trail after it, like knots on a rope.
Sexual immorality destroys character. And conversely, valuing and honoring even one virtue often helps one develop the other virtues. When people are educated about virtues, what they are, and why they are vital to human life. When people are educated and raised to be feral humanimals, then it is almost impossible for them to change, short of religious conversion.
(let me know how you’re doing when you get a chance...you’ll hear from me soon.)
I don’t think that this is exactly an honest evaluation of what is going on. Specifically this makes it sound like every guy out there is getting his rocks off with any woman he chooses. In reality women still do control the door to heavens gate and don’t just let any tom, dick or harry through that gate.
Women have a strong desire to get the best man available and towards that end they are all going after the same top 10-20% of men. This means that the top 20% of guys are screwing their brains out with young nubile women while the other 80% are either going it solo (lots of video games and internet porn) or settling for the dogs the top 20% won’t even touch with a ten inch pole or the aging cougars that have spent their youth sluting it up with the top dogs and are now looking for some poor hard up schlep to take care of her, her children from another relationship and whatever STDs she might have picked up along the way.
Great deal if your in the top 20% sucks for the rest of them but this is the world that women have created. Thank God for all the social safety nets and outrageous child support payments that make all of this possible, otherwise there might be a return to some semblance of sanity.
On a related subject, on this news day of oil closing at $100, Beranke using his amazing prognostic talents to inform us that there may be temporary inflation (but don’t worry,he’ll monitor it for us), the Mideast flaming up and the continuing Wisconsin showdown, NBC lead with the WH releasing a report on pay inequality for women. Clearly, this is the pressing problem of our time.**
If there was ever such a blatant case of diversion, I’d like an example. I wonder if this Slate story and the WH press release was orchestrated.
The good news is NBC can’t paste WH press releases over the gas pump signs and store prices.
** You may wonder why I watch this ****. Well, I didn’t watch the entire thing, I was too angry. But it is important to know your enemy.
Anything other that a Godly life will not profit either sex. Choose your mates wisely.
These boys should research the youth-bulge theory. Although they have it great with the easy sex, the chinese and Muslim men are far less fortunate, so if the youth-bulge theory is right, American males may end up paying for it with their lives in war.
There are a lot of available women around who are freely giving of their sexual favors -- but only to certain set of men who I'll refer to as the Alpha Males, the guys who women compete for. The "Mr Big" type from Sex and the City. Prince Charming.
For somebody in this set of males, it's a target-rich environment. You sleep with a woman until she starts bothering you about "commitment", and then you move on to a younger/hotter/tighter replacement. Women complain about this type as being "afraid of commitment", but the reality is that the guy has no need to commit to one women because he is a sought-after commodity (at least until he turns 40 or so)
Eventually a woman who's been chasing Prince Charming after Prince Charming gets tired of the "pump-n-dump" routine, generally as she approaches 30 and senses her market value starting to precipitously decline, and decides to settle for Mr Average.
There's a good article discussing the phenomenon SEXUAL UTOPIA IN POWER
American women now offer only sexual relations in exchange for a marriage contract. They will not cook, clean, sew, raise children, manage the house, or make life comfortable for the head-of-the-household, the husband. They are not interested in being good wives, just in receiving the benefits of such.
American men understand that American women no longer bring anything to marriage other than an offer of sex. They further have learned that this offer is bogus and will be repudiated shortly after the marriage contract has been executed. Plus young American men are readily able to obtain sexual gratification from young American woman, single and married, who are embracing the slut lifestyle.
So young American men increasingly view the institution of marriage as having no benefits and the huge liability of a better than 50% chance of divorce, in which case they will be the financial loser.
Given the above situation, is it any wonder that young American men now routinely avoid marriage?! It is a simple cost/benefit analysis which young American men are learning well.
put her to work and go fishing!!
Hmph!! For us older guys, sex is INCREDIBLY expensive!
“The only difference between free sex and prostitution is that free sex is ultimately more expensive.” -— Clemenza’s dad
Breaking news. Women like sex.
I don’t know. It does seem to me that many of today’s young women have different goals than I did, but that’s really the extent of my awareness and understanding of this issue.
Here is my issue: You know Taylor Swift’s song “You Belong With Me”? That is the story of my life. I’ve had so many male friends who were excellent husband material, but they never take things further and ask me out. Several of them have gone on to marry other women, so it can’t be that they’re afraid of commitment.
bump for later reading