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Posted on 08/07/2015 9:02:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“Gay teens have higher pregnancy rates than their straight peers.” That’s the headline in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, reporting on findings by a non-profit focused on teenage sexual health. How does that work, you ask?
In this context, “gay” is a catchall term encompassing the entire LGBTQ community. Oh yeah. We just keep tacking new letters on there. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and now the marvelously nebulous category of “questioning” all share the same treatment in these findings. So a girl who identifies as bixsexual, and gets pregnant by a boy, affects the numbers we’re looking at.
Naturally, gay activists have jumped on the findings to further build their rhetorical victim status. From the Tribune:
Struggles with mental health, homelessness, substance abuse and sexual violence were described by pregnant youths interviewed by researchers for Rainbow Health Initiative.
The environment in schools or at home also can play a significant role, said John Azbill-Salisbury, director of programs at Minneapolis-based Rainbow Health Initiative.
“You know, if you’re being told all day long that how you think about yourself is wrong, or that it doesn’t fit into the environment that you’re in, that has a negative effect on all of those things, including risk behaviors that would lead to pregnancy,” he said.
Here’s a much simpler explanation. If you’re a teenager with a professed sexual orientation, it’s probably because you’re having sex. Indeed, the Tribune acknowledges this point on the next page, even while overlooking its significance.
The Tribune continues:
Among the revelatory findings: Bisexual females were five times more likely to have been pregnant than straight females. And questioning and gay males were four times more likely than straight males to report getting someone pregnant.
They also were more sexually active than their straight peers, with about 51 percent of lesbian females reporting that they have had sex compared with 23.5 percent of straight females.
Duh. Maybe that’s because many of those “straight females” aren’t obsessed with their sexual identity. After all, straight is a default category. If you identify as something other than straight, it’s probably because you are engaged in or seeking sexual encounters. This shouldn’t surprise anyone.
Another bizarre claim coming out of these findings is that LGBTQ kids aren’t getting the same quality of sexual education as straight kids. Someone needs to explain to me how the facts of life require unique presentation to a gay kid.
The gay movement touts these findings as argument for further normalization of alternative lifestyles. If kids feel better about themselves, the argument goes, they won’t engage in so much risky behavior. But that’s placing the cart before the horse. Being LGBTQ isrisky behavior. These identities have no meaning outside a context where they are acted upon.
My stomach just lurched
I guess that’s the “Q” part of that fun little acronym....go figure.
“Gay teens have higher pregnancy rates than their straight peers”
Damn, I was waiting for the explanation how men were doing that...
Lesbian sex seems to always end with a strap on or so I have been told
Do these people have anything more productive to do than screw and talk about their genitals?
In some ways you almost curse the fact that we live with so much abundance because it allows enough free time for perverts to hone their “craft” because they’ve developed a serious case of “idle hands”.
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LOL thanks for clarifying that.
Wasn’t Roe in Roe Vs. Wade “lesbian”? Then she had 3 kids?
“Here’s a much simpler explanation. If you’re a teenager with a professed sexual orientation, it’s probably because you’re having sex. Indeed, the Tribune acknowledges this point on the next page, even while overlooking its significance.”
And if you’re a teenager having sex today, you’re likely playing all positions.
Our youth are lost in so many ways.
Thank you Dr. Spock (whose own child suicided), progressives, no fault divorce, single mother entitlements, NEA-led pubic schools and our media.
“LGBTQ” Had to look that one up “Q” can stand for questioning or queer. From USA Today: “Queer means that you are one of those letters (LGBT), but you could be all of those letters and not knowing is OK,” she said. Other letters to added according to the article: A — Representing asexuals, or individuals who do not experience sexual attraction.
A — Representing allies, or people who are straight but support those in the LGBT community.
I — Representing individuals who are intersex, or people who are born with anatomy that does not necessarily fit the “typical definitions of female or male,” according to the Intersex Society of North America. “
But what if she got pregnant by a girl? Or what if she got the boy pregnant? That would really be interesting!
As Andrew Dice Clay said:
Yo! Either you s**k d***
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This ain't rocket science here!
It’s been known for a while that lesbians tend to have more lifetime male sex partners than straight women.
RE: It’s been known for a while that lesbians tend to have more lifetime male sex partners than straight women.
IF TRUE, this tells me that Lesbians are REALLY bi-sexual.
“Naturally, gay activists have jumped on the findings to further build their rhetorical victim status.”
It will never be enough for them, no matter how many “rights” are granted to them.
Never.
Gee, now I wonder why that is...
I believe they are really bi-sexual.
“Struggles with mental health, homelessness, substance abuse and sexual violence were described by pregnant youths interviewed by researchers for Rainbow Health Initiative.”
No, it’s a simple lack of morality.
I’m confused...
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