Posted on 04/17/2005 9:18:14 AM PDT by Graybeard58
Reuters wrote recently on a study about teenagers and oral sex. A survey of 580 14- and 15-year olds found 20 percent had engaged in oral sex compared with 14 percent who admitted they had engaged in sexual intercourse. A third said they intended to have oral sex within the next six months, and a majority said they believe oral sex is not sex and not as risky as intercourse.
But just because they think that doesn't make it so. If oral sex wasn't sex, it wouldn't have sex in its name. And as health authorities note, teenagers underestimate their risk of transmitting or contracting herpes, hepatitis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis and HIV through oral sex.
"Given the suggestion that adolescents do not view oral sex as sex and see oral sex as a way of preserving their virginity while still gaining intimacy and sexual pleasure, they are likely to interpret sexual health messages as referring to vaginal sex," wrote lead author Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, a pediatrician at the University of California, San Francisco. "Adolescents also believed that oral sex is more acceptable than vaginal sex for adolescents their own age in both dating and nondating situations, oral sex is less of a threat to their values and beliefs, and more of their peers will have oral sex than vaginal sex in the near future."
But Reuters failed to explain this phenomenon, why otherwise intelligent teenagers don't believe than something called "oral sex" is not sex.
Reuters did not name the person who deserves all the credit for putting the idea in young minds that oral sex among consenting 14-year-olds is morally acceptable, is safer than intercourse and does not constitute "sexual relations." Thanks, Bill, for putting so many children at risk and for making parenting so much more difficult.
In addition to all of that it can also leave stains on a dress and that pesky D.N.A. evidence. Evidently Monica is a spitter.
Two of the sickest, arrogant, pompos assed individuals eve to walk God's green earth. Two peas in a pod is correct. Just look at this photo of the both of them. They are as disgusting as one could get.
If Bill taught our young that oral sex isn't sex, then what would Hillary teach them?
MEGA barf alert!
Do I have to put a sarcasm tag on this?
Bill Clinton's legacy is Monica Lewinsky - no getting around it. I never want to see such trash in the White House again. I beleive the American people feel the same way.
,,, of course it did but now we all get to be interns.
The author is correct, Bubba lowered the standard of acceptable public behavior of married men, esp. the POTUS. And the press and the Senate aided and abetted it.
LOL
Kept it just for posterity's sake. huh Doug?
If I was gettin it like that I'd be havin Sex.
I really do despise them the longer they live.
That should be the Clinton postage Stamp that we know will come out in ten years or so.
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LOL!Yeah! :)
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