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Porn use makes teen girls five times more likely to have group sex: study
LifeSiteNews ^ | 12/22/11 | Ben Johnson

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.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: groupsex; moralabsolutes; mps; porn; pornography; sexpositiveagenda
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To: null and void

And then they throw it at you.


81 posted on 12/22/2011 7:22:05 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (*Philosophy lesson 117-22b: Anyone who demands to be respected is undeserving of it.*)
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To: A_perfect_lady

If that were true lesbians would have tame sex, and there would be no female johns feeding the sex industry.

Neither of those are the case.

(we won’t talk about things emergency rooms see with lesbians).


82 posted on 12/22/2011 7:22:37 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: A_perfect_lady

“Why? Seriously, why do people want to do this?’’< Insecurity perhaps?


83 posted on 12/22/2011 7:24:15 PM PST by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: A_perfect_lady
I think most of the things women do in bed are because men want it, not because women do. I mean... so many of the things that people do are just utterly bizarre to me. Group sex is one of those things. Why? Seriously, why do people want to do this? I have never, ever been able to figure this out.

Some women and men incorrectly believe lust will bring them happiness.
84 posted on 12/22/2011 7:26:49 PM PST by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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To: MrEdd

Ah yes. Those emergency-room occurances ... not something that generally crosses my mind...


85 posted on 12/22/2011 7:30:46 PM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: elkfersupper

“Monogamism is a hopeful wish of the female of our species..

It is an admirable idea and goal, but unattainable by and large.”

Bullsh*t.


86 posted on 12/22/2011 7:31:31 PM PST by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: MrEdd

What???? I’ve seen a few ER things but not with lesbians!!! Usually with the other kind of homo & some of their toys. What the hell do lesbians do?

Geez. I thought I was pretty callous, but clearly I’m sheltered.


87 posted on 12/22/2011 7:34:20 PM PST by surroundedbyblue (Live the message of Fatima - pray & do penance!)
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To: elkfersupper

Your comments about monogamy are unfounded & could be used as a justification for promiscuity. Shame


88 posted on 12/22/2011 7:36:36 PM PST by surroundedbyblue (Live the message of Fatima - pray & do penance!)
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To: maddog55

“18 - 20 age group works but if you missed the obvious it’s called sarcasm. I shouldn’t have to spell it out.”

I have daughters and simply found your comment icky.


89 posted on 12/22/2011 7:46:27 PM PST by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

You and me ain’t nothing but animals,
So lets do like they do on the discovery channel..

D@MN! I got that song stuck in my head again!


90 posted on 12/22/2011 8:24:59 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Ya think? Monkey see, monkey do.

Yeah, and how many things are there that you can do, really? Five? Eight, if you are really kinky? How did they judge what was being imitated, versus what just happens when people of opposite sex get naked together? So "their partners" observed various pairings of organs, and then did the same act? They wouldn't have the slightest inclination to do the same acts without the demonstration?

91 posted on 12/22/2011 8:31:31 PM PST by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: wagglebee

Where the Hell is the chivalry? Oh that’s right, the Nazi bitches ditched that tradition, and parents happily abdicated.


92 posted on 12/22/2011 8:36:32 PM PST by Gene Eric (Save a pretzel for the gas jets.)
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To: Vermont Lt

“Group activities would be the neighbor coming over to help put in a new fence posts.”

Sometimes a fencepost is just a fencepost . . .


93 posted on 12/22/2011 8:36:45 PM PST by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
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To: Melas
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.

Actually, it makes sense to me... Popular culture tells us many guys fantasize about being with more than 1 woman at a time. My guess is that the women find they like the attention and maybe even have some latent lesbian tendencies... While the guys get worried that their women might discover they really don't need the guys.

Mark

94 posted on 12/22/2011 8:44:20 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
then why can’t I print money?

It's prohibited by the Constitution.

Mark

95 posted on 12/22/2011 8:52:04 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: PapaBear3625
It's also the reason why men like watching porn about lesbians. One naked girl is good, two naked girls are better.

And once aroused, a man doesn't have enough blood to think with both heads and realize that the two women really don't need or want him around.

Mark

96 posted on 12/22/2011 8:54:40 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: null and void

You and me aint nothin’ but mammals,
So let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel...

Mark


97 posted on 12/22/2011 8:56:51 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: A_perfect_lady

“Gentlemen, may I introduce you two...?”

May I introduce you to the concept of the representative sample?

If you want to draw inferences about a large population—for instance, human males—your sample must be representative of that population.

You cannot draw credible inferences if your sample is limited to a small group of *self-selected* subjects, such as the small number of men who chose to make such remarks on this thread.

It would be equally valid—which is to say, completely invalid—if I decided on the basis of your remarks that all women have a problem with men.


98 posted on 12/22/2011 11:09:32 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc

I just wanted to see if you’d start in on a man named PapaBear with your tough, macho attitude, and tell him about his broad brush. I figured you only talked that way to women and it looks like I was right.


99 posted on 12/22/2011 11:31:02 PM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: A_perfect_lady

“I just wanted to see if you’d start in on a man named PapaBear with your tough, macho attitude, and tell him about his broad brush. I figured you only talked that way to women and it looks like I was right.”

1. I have displayed no “tough, macho attitude.”
2. PapaBear expressed his opinion. He didn’t make sweeping assertions about all men.
3. As for only talking “that way” to women, I must disagree. I often speak to men in a polite and gentle way, just as I did to you.


100 posted on 12/22/2011 11:43:19 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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