NatGeo Sees No ‘Taboo’ in Teen Sex

The Christian Diarist ^ | July 9, 2012 | JP

[CHRISTIAN DIARIST]

The popular culture bombards our teen-agers with the message that pre-marital sex is expected of them; that “everyone's doing it (all the cool kids, that is).”

[Dr. Sivana]

I don’t appreciate the use of the term “teen sex”, as there is certainly nothing wrong with a couple of responsible 18 years olds geting married. Depending on what is being described, extra-marital relations (”sex” being best reserved to denote the two sexes, male and female), loose behavior, unnatural acts, etc.

[Edward Teach]

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

[trailhkr1]

The popular culture bombards our teen-agers with the message that pre-marital sex is expected of them; that “everyone's doing it (all the cool kids, that is).”

[trailhkr1]

The popular culture bombards our teen-agers with the message that pre-marital sex is expected of them; that “everyone's doing it (all the cool kids, that is).”

Pre marital sex has always been going on. Nothing new. We just hear about it more today through media and people are more open about it. Some of the stat's of the early 1700's was 30-35% of births would have been out of wedlock except they got married.

[GraceG]

They were all over their panties wadded up over how “bad” purity balls were.

But they soft sold the 13year old mother.

I watched it and had to laugh at how liberal the agenda was.

The show Taboo is all about pushing cultural relativism.

[GraceG]

They were all over their panties wadded up over how “bad” purity balls were.

But they soft sold the 13year old mother.

I watched it and had to laugh at how liberal the agenda was.

The show Taboo is all about pushing cultural relativism.

[justice14]

I agree. It’s not as if a huge sex drive has risen recently. It’s been around. Just now, it’s more accepted and even pushed. Sad. Acceptance of immorality is going out the window more and more.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Nat Geo still pushing the ol’ Margaret Mead crap for going on eight decades now...

[MeganC]

As someone who got married at 18 I appreciate your comment.

[Dr. Sivana]

As someone who got married at 18 I appreciate your comment.

My mother was 18 when she married my father, who was 21. She was 19 when my big brother was born. (Zounds! A "teen pregnancy"!)

My wife was 19 years old when I married her, and I can say that she was far more mature and responsible than some of the older ladies I knew before meeting her.

If you are hell-bent on delaying maturity you will likely succeed.

[MeganC]

With your permission, I think I have found my new tag line!

[Dr. Sivana]

Some of the stat's of the early 1700's was 30-35% of births would have been out of wedlock except they got married.

When divorce was extremely rare and many families experienced five or more births? Not likely.

[Dr. Sivana]

I am honored.

[alexander_busek]

Another featured 15-year-old Australian tart Cassie Osborne and her teen-aged girlfriends, wearing barely-there dresses, practicing their sexual flirtation, looking forward to becoming some young bloke’s boy toy.

Modern slang is not my forté, but isn't a "boy toy" by definition a male object of affection - not the object of affection of a male?

Regards,

[trailhkr1]

When divorce was extremely rare and many families experienced five or more births? Not likely.

What does divorce and # of kids have to do with premarital sex?

I think you might find this of interest. From "Everyday Life in the 1800s" by Marc McCuctcheon, Chapter 10 Courtship and Marriage, page 205:

"premarital sex: the late 1700s and early 1800s were marked by a notably higher incidence of premarital sex than in later years. Records show, in fact, that around the turn of the century one third of New England brides were already pregnant when they married, despite civil statutes against fornication. By the 1830s, premarital pregnancies dropped to 20 percent, and then to just 10 percent in the 1850s, suggesting better contraception and more widespread abstinence.

[miserare]

National Geographic...don’t they conduct those underage sex safaris to Thailand?

[Aleya2Fairlie]

Coming soon to a nation near you!!! Massive attitude adjustment, courtesy of the Creator.

This world is becoming more inhospitable to Christians with each passing day. Sodom and Gommorah, the sequel.

[Amberdawn]

Yes, they did get married, because males who fathered a kid were called bums if they didn’t and we all know what the girls were called. Served a purpose, that.

[Talisker]

One segment introduced viewers to the Kreung people of Cambodia, who build “love huts” for their teen-aged daughters to have pre-marital sex with as many teen-aged boys as they like.

Well seeing as how the world isn't exactly overrun by Kreung people, maybe - just maybe - this is a technique the tribe uses to increase its population as fast as possible.

But hey, why should a publication called "National Geographic" be expected to consider such a socio-anthropological explanation?