Posted on 09/29/2005 5:53:33 AM PDT by qandablogger
The news that more than 50 percent of American teens have had oral sex raised hardly an eyebrow when it was first reported by the National Center for Health Statistics as part of most comprehensive survey of teen sexual behavior ever conducted, and this by the federal government. Nor were people surprised at the huge change in young girls who were giving as much oral sex as they were receiving, thereby confirming the transformation in young women from sexual prey to sexual predators.
Less so was there any shock value in the newly released fact that 11 percent of young women reported having at least one homosexual experience. By now, Americans have become completely inured to the idea of teens having more sex than their parents. Time was when Dad would sit down and give his son the talk about the birds and the bees. Now it's junior who sits Dad down and teaches him all the latest positions.
But there was another statistic that should have gotten parents' attention but which was similarly ignored, namely, that there seems to be a direct link between teen sexuality and teen depression. A study by the Heritage Foundation, in-turn based on the government-funded National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health, found that about 25 percent of sexually active girls say they are depressed all, most or a lot of the time, while only 8 percent of girls who are not sexually active feel the same.
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Promiscuity is damaging psychologically and bad for the state of the soul.
I am locking my daughters in the house.
Good to see sex ed is having such a positive effect on our children, especially our daughters. Keep up the good work.
But there's nothing wrong with a little hanky panky between a hot teacher and a teen boy - no spiritual or emotional ties there - just good clean American fetishism.
How could we ever have believed that allowing big children to detonate such powerful emotions, in empty relationships where neither party is sufficiently developed to assimilate such strong emotions, would do anything but eviscerate the emotional landscape of its child practitioners? Heck, we don't even let teenagers play with fireworks for fear of them blowing their own heads off. But we've given them the emotional equivalent of a nuclear blast.
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But protecting your children from external dangers is miniscule compared to the task of safeguarding them from absorbing influences that will corrupt them from the inside, and it is much easier to recover from physical scars than from their emotional equivalents.
"Nor were people surprised at the huge change in young girls who were giving as much oral sex as they were receiving, thereby confirming the transformation in young women from sexual prey to sexual predators. "
Actually, I'm willing to bet that boys are pressuring them in both regards, and they are being exploited in both cases.
Someday they might get back to correctly labeling oral sex sodomy.
It's a tradeoff, in my opinion. Boys use girls for sex; girls use boys for social power plays.
It could be that depressed girls are more likely to engage in sex than non-depressed girls.
That would make sense, if you think about it.
I don't see where one can conclude from this study that sexual activity causes depression. It might. But I don't see how that conclusion can be drawn by the facts reported here.
I think that broadstroking this study is dangerous. I'm a 25 year old guy, and I've been sexually inactive for almost 2 years. I can easily say that I'm suffering from certain levels of depression and loneliness. Perhaps it's the opposite with men, but it seems that a loving relationship, complete with affectionate copulation, would do me a world of good right now... more than any anti-depressant (which I refuse to take) could ever.
"It could be that depressed girls are more likely to engage in sex than non-depressed girls."
I'd have to agree with that. The culture itself is empty and depressing enough these days. The sexual activity could be a distraction from that, or perhaps the message of the culture is that sex is the cure.
"Findings from the study show depression came after substance and sexual activity, not the other way around," says researcher Denise Dion Hallfors of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation.
"Everybody does it."FOR MORE OF ALL THIS, BE SURE TO VOTE DEMOCRAT!"Private morality has nothing to do with public performance."
"It's only sex?"
"Oral sex is not sex."
"Can't we just move on?"
(My parents, grandparents, and great grandparents were all Democrats. If they were alive today, they would repudiate the Democrat Party and everything it stands for--immediately and in no uncertain terms!
My children--I am VERY proud to say--are ALL REPUBLICANS!
The sooner the entire Democrat Party is flushed into the septic tank of history--where it belongs--the better for all the people of the world!)
Personally, I find this sentence somewhat mystifying. If they give oral sex they are predators but if they receive it they are prey? I can't figure this one out.
I love a good bit of sodomy.
derogatory (of a person) having many sexual relationships, esp. transient
Multiple partners with no real relationship is extremely damaging. This type of behavior seems to induce depression, low self-esteem, and other problematical psychological side effects in many people.
Many people have different definitions as to what promiscuity is. I think of it as applying especially to transient sexual relationships.
As you pointed out, a loving and stable relationship that includes sexual intimacy, even outside of marriage can be fulfilling. But my statement applies specifically to the harmfulness of promiscuity, and it applies to both genders, though the female gender does seem to suffer more negative side effects than us men, but we are not altogether immune either.
Hmmm. Maybe they get depressed because their boyfriends are poor lovers ;-)
But you aren't a girl, and you aren't a teenager. You're a man in his twenties. That's a far, far different emotional and physical situation than being a fourteen-year-old girl, for whom engaging in a passionate relationship can be (and usually is) extremely damaging.
I'm sorry for you and hope you find love soon. Try going to church and doing some volunteer work there; you won't last six months without someone introducing you to someone. Or try Match.com. Seriously, it works! My brother is joyfully married to a lovely girl now as a direct result of Match.com.
Deep down they know they're just a warm place to put it to their pimply adolescent boyfriends. Feeling used must be awful.
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