Posted on 12/22/2011 4:25:03 PM PST by wagglebee
BOSTON December 21, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One in 13 girls aged 14-to-20, or about 7.7 percent, who participated in a recent study from Boston University’s School of Public Health said they have engaged in “Multi-Person Sex” (MPS), reports the Daily Mail. Researchers believe imitation of pornography is a leading cause.
The study involved 328 girls from underprivileged areas of the city who had visited a neighborhood clinic for sexual health issues. However, economic status did not appear to be determinative of risky sexual behavior.
The study found more than half of the girls who had engaged in MPS had been coerced into having group sex by a boy or forced into a “gang rape,” and one-third of participants had used drugs or alcohol before the encounter. In 45 percent of MPS encounters, at least one male did not use a condom.
The average age when girls began having intercourse with multiple partners was 15.6.
Researchers said the use of pornography – by either partner – was a primary influence. “Girls were five times more likely to engage in MPS if they or their boyfriends had watched porn,” said Emily Rothman, an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the university. “Out of those who engaged in MPS, 50 percent did things their partners saw in porn first. Porn may be influencing the sexual behavior of these teens.”
The researchers findings give further credence to the conclusions of Canadian filmmaker Sharlene Azam, whose 2009 documentary Oral Sex is the New Goodnight Kiss documented girls as young as 11 going to sex parties and having intercourse with multiple partners. Azam attributed teenage hypersexual behavior to porn consumption.
Patrick A. Trueman, President of Morality in Media, told LifeSiteNews.com, “While the [Boston University] report is shocking, it is not altogether a surprise because…we know from scientific studies [pornography use] leads one to engage in the same activities that are viewed in the pornographic film.”
A 2005 survey found, “Unwanted porn found its way to 17% of 10- to 11-year-old boys, 16% of girls 10 to 11 years old.”
Trueman, the former Chief of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section of the Justice Department, said that pornography distorts an underdeveloped part of teenagers’ brains known as the prefrontal cortex, which is “the home of good decision-making and reasoning.”
Scientists and psychologists have concluded this has a lifelong impact on growing boys and girls. “While masturbating to porn, the adolescent brain is being shaped around a sexual experience that is isolating, visceral, and completely void of any love or compassion,” wrote Alexandra Katehakis of Psychology Today. “This has the potential to lead to great problems in sexual compulsivity and sex addiction throughout the adolescent boy’s life, because his brain gets shaped to expect the ‘heroin-like’ porn dopamine rush from all of his real-life sexual experiences.” This expectation will lead the teen to “seek out riskier and more visceral experiences that resonate with his early porn use.”
A 2009 CyberSentinel poll claims 13-to-16 year-olds spend almost two hours a week viewing pornography. The average age a child is first exposed to internet pornography is 11.
According to Psychology Today, a 2010 study of 73 Swedish teenagers aged 14-20 revealed that teenage boys who viewed pornography accepted the notion that “women are there solely to satisfy the men’s needs…more or less uncritically.”
“I think most of the things women do in bed are because men want it, not because women do.”
I would disagree. Women however typically abhor ‘casual’ sex, and men will typically be drawn to and prefer precisely such a lack of commitment. This article indicates that the porn tends to make young and impressionable females similarly callous. Predatory homosexuals also use such an approach on the young and vulnerable.
The problems here are consent, as in age of, and they also have to accept the consequences of their actions.
That sounds like an Alfred Kinsey style sampling.
More naked women and naked women parts. Men like naked women and naked women parts, if you hadn't noticed.
“The couples that come to her that have been involved in swinging were almost universally initiated by the man. However, for the confusing part, once into the lifestyle, the men were also the first to want to give it up. The women were more apt to report that they missed it.”
My first marriage ended due to this activity. I wanted to give it up and settle down and just be a normal family, find a church and seek forgiveness.
She didn’t. It was not I that initiated us into the ‘lifestyle’ but I did fully participate and enjoyed almost all of it.
Then I grew up. I realized after 12 years and NO std’s that I was one of the lucky ones. I wanted to stay lucky.
I’ve been walking with Christ for 6 years now and do not look back.
Well, in his defense, I have a teenage daughter living at home going to college. As near as I can tell, she never shuts up. If she has female friends over, it sounds like crickets chirping at any distance beyond her door. I don’t even think they’re communicating, but just making noise together.
“...girls from underprivileged areas of the city who had visited a neighborhood clinic for sexual health issues...”
Perhaps some Kinsey style data loading. One hopes so, anyway.
Just confirming what I already know. It’s confused my shrink friend for years, and I don’t begin to understand it. You’re not alone though. It seems women are much more comfortable with that lifestyle once they’re into it than men are.
Go to any mall in America and you will see kids who are clearly from privileged families behaving like they belong in the inner city.
“It seems women are much more comfortable with that lifestyle once they’re into it than men are.”
You would have to attend a party to understand why. I could tell you but I’d be banned and deservedly so.
So freepmail me. I personally find this fascinating because it flies in the face of everything I’ve observed about women in every other setting. I simply don’t get it. Women aren’t supposed to prefer multiple partners.
Imprinting.
I’d venture that people who marry their first sexual partners are imprinted on them and more apt to have long happy marriages.
I’d further venture that having multiple partners blurs the imprinting and starts an imprint on variety, rendering a single partner solution incomplete and unsatisfying.
Very true. A principle part of rap was degrading women to the status of sexual beasts too. Much like a certain religion that prowls around the edges of our culture today.
Translation: PERFECT DATE. One thing left to do, especially if all you had was a '62 Corvair and $5.
But at the same time? All you have to do is watch a man handle a sandwich and a remote at the same time to wonder if this isn't a fantasy best left to pros.
they were the ideal candidates for cults since they were taught to obey authority.
I suspect the elders would regard that as an unintended consequence...
And do we fund this crap (Sex Studies) with taxpayer dollars?
“I personally find this fascinating because it flies in the face of everything I’ve observed about women in every other setting. I simply don’t get it. Women aren’t supposed to prefer multiple partners.”
Do not confuse accepted social assertions with discreet truth. I am not going to get into the conversation further, but will say that my observations would support what Grunthor has said.
Also, bear in mind that among heterosexuals, all those no account dog men are somewhere, somehow finding like minded women. There is no sex fairy doing this via magic. If fewer women are doing it, -those- women are very busy indeed.
Yes on all points.
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