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Teens having less oral sex, study says
Los Angeles Times ^ | August 16, 2012 | Monte Morin

Posted on 08/17/2012 5:21:12 PM PDT by detective

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Isn't everybody glad their tax dollars are paying for researchers to ask teenagers about oral sex and then specualate about results. I doubt teenagers are honest when adult strangers ask them about their sex lives. I also don't see any reason for taxpayers to pay for this stuff.

But, you paid for it. You might as well read about it.

1 posted on 08/17/2012 5:21:14 PM PDT by detective
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To: detective

the effect that slick willy (bill clinton) had on our culture is finally starting to wear off.


2 posted on 08/17/2012 5:22:51 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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quote “The report, “Prevalence and Timing of Oral Sex With Opposite-Sex Partners Among Females and Males Aged 15-24 years: United States,” was based on interviews with 6,346 young adults. Among other findings, the study found that in the two decades since 1988, the percentage of female and male teenagers who reported ever experiencing intercourse declined from 51% to 43%”

hm... anyone else find it hard to believe that only 43% of young people have had sex?


3 posted on 08/17/2012 5:25:16 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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That’s what I thought when I read this, too.


4 posted on 08/17/2012 5:25:44 PM PDT by Jeff Winston
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Based on anecdotal accounts, I really believe that today’s teens are FAR more conservative than their older siblings, parents, and in many cases, their grandparents...


5 posted on 08/17/2012 5:26:14 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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I didn’t do any of that when I was a teenager, and I don’t do any of that now in my mid-20s. I have friends and hobbies.


6 posted on 08/17/2012 5:28:35 PM PDT by wastedyears (The First Law of Heavy Metal: Not all metal is satanic.)
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So many comments I’d love to make but I’ve never been suspended on FR and I don’t intend to start now.


7 posted on 08/17/2012 5:32:11 PM PDT by beelzepug ("Blind obedience to arbitrary rules is a sign of mental illness")
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I don’t find it that hard to believe. It’s likely in the general range that realistically happened. Anyways, I didn’t bother screwing around when I had plenty of other more important things to bother doing. Hobbies, academia, and plenty of other activities that weren’t sexual are out there to bother. Second, what’s the point of using perhaps the greatest, most precious kind of relationship a person can have for only a few minutes, much less into some non-corresponding equipment on the other person? Anyways, I found the whole concept bizarre.


8 posted on 08/17/2012 5:36:38 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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Know what the problem with oral sex is ?

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The view.


9 posted on 08/17/2012 5:36:52 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (RED NECK KUNG FU by Corn Fuschas)
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......But, you paid for it. You might as well read about it.

In STL, one of the local news channels has a segment call, "You Paid For It". The segments' premise is to expose all the crap that the local tax payers are paying for. It's quite good and informative. However, like this article, it will make your head explode due to all the dang wasteful spending on crap things.

10 posted on 08/17/2012 5:38:08 PM PDT by redshawk (0pansy is a Liar and Hates.........he just hates!)
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To: wastedyears

When I was Teen I never thought about oral sex. It was reserved for a queer in the boys bathroom.


11 posted on 08/17/2012 5:38:48 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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One powerful cultural trend right now is that millions of young men are holed up in their rooms, or in their friends’ rooms, playing video games.

Not only does that mean that they’re not engaged in cavorting with the gals, it means that they’re missing everything else that healthy active people do, like work.

It’s an alternative universe, and there are a whole lot of young men living there. They have no people skills. It’s the western version of China’s One Child policy.


12 posted on 08/17/2012 5:39:11 PM PDT by lurk
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In 2002, 55% of boys and 54% of girls reported ever having had oral sex. By 2010, only 48% of boys and 45% of girls reported having participated in oral sex, according to the report.

"Reported" is the key word. Most likely in the last ten years, teens have learned these are stupid surveys and lied on the questions.

13 posted on 08/17/2012 5:43:43 PM PDT by bgill
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This is the 9/11 generation. Parents like my husband and I, who had young kids at the time of 9/11, are often super protective and attached to their kids. We were shocked into the realization that our dear ones could be gone in a heartbeat, and we’re not risking their loss if we can help it. A lot of folks I know say they can’t be as oblivious to what their kids are up to as their own parents were.


14 posted on 08/17/2012 5:44:52 PM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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"Say what?"

15 posted on 08/17/2012 5:46:10 PM PDT by Bratch
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As a parent of three teenagers my observations concur. However the why for the change might not be all that positive. What I see is that today’s kids are overly scrutinized in everything they do by their parents. Whatever they do, their parents are right there next to them. Go to any HS sports practice and you will observe a group of dads all watching through the fence. I’m talking practice, not games. Any problem in school, mom and dad will be there to handle it for them. Two boys have a disagreement, more likely the dads will square off instead of the boys themselves. Thou it is better that their lifestyle is more so called “conservative”, the downside is that these kids cannot handle life on their own. They need their parents hands to hold in all of life’s situations. Today’s youth are not being allowed to take the hard knocks. Their parents will not allow it. I qualify this by stating I live in the suburbs of a major NE city. That is what I see here, it may be different else where.


16 posted on 08/17/2012 5:47:18 PM PDT by gusty
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To: wastedyears

Here’s MY First Law of Heavy Metal: If you think Heavy Metal is music, you’ve been had.


17 posted on 08/17/2012 5:48:04 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
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Less oral and less vaginal - they’re going to the butt.


18 posted on 08/17/2012 5:48:11 PM PDT by youngidiot (The name's Bond. James Bond. James Bond Jovi.)
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One powerful cultural trend right now is that millions of young men are holed up in their rooms, or in their friends’ rooms, playing video games.

Blaming video games seems a bit backwards. In our culture we don't give young people anything to do. We lock them up in daycare centers until the age of 18; we import a foreign underclass to do all the unskilled labor that they might be suited for; and of course we continue to provide all their physical wellbeing until no less than the age of 26. What are they supposed to do besides play games?

19 posted on 08/17/2012 5:52:24 PM PDT by eclecticEel (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
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Unless an effective new antibiotic is discovered for gonorrhea the "sexual revolution" may be slowing its pace, and not just for teens. The gonorrhea microbe has mutated rapidly and is now resistant to all but one main drug. Researchers are afraid it, too, may soon become ineffective.

While gonorrhea is not usually fatal and condom use offers some protection, it's an ugly disease that now may not be easily cured by a shot or bottle of pills. Gonorrhea of the throat is currently increasing among male homosexuals and concerns about the disease may spell an end to capricious male-female oral sex.

20 posted on 08/17/2012 5:55:21 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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