[scan58]

The only positive thing I can say about this is that they report that in their high school, girls who feel pressured by boyfrieds to go all the way (and who doesn't remember what teenage boys are like) will perform oral sex but refuse intercourse, and that most girls report that works.

Not really a "positive" aspect, either, IMHO.

Apparently the girls (who knows what the boys think) can pretty much emotionally divorce themselves from it in a way they cannot or do not from actual intercourse.

I don't mean to sound cruel, but it sounds like a these girls are gearing up for a certain very old profession.

[CatoRenasci]

Of course it's not really a positive, but it does illustrate that kids are trying to cope with the intensely sexualized environment in which they find themselves without completely succombing. Would it be better if they were all good members of church groups and never did anything beyond a simple goodnight kiss? Possibly. Is it likely that most teenagers will completely avoid risky behavior and acts that they consider rebelling against their parents? I don't think so. I think your comment suggesting these kids are on their way to becoming prostitutes is small, gratuitous, and inaccurate. Were you never a teenager? Or were you a goody-two-shoes who never ever did anything other than exactly what your parents told you?

[ThinkLikeWaterAndReeds]

I don't mean to sound cruel, but it sounds like a these girls are gearing up for a certain very old profession.

Could it be that these girls are gearing up fo a marriage where they are able to please their husbands? How many "faithful" moral majority husbands have teenage trailer-trash lovers because their wives are so very proper? You proper wives might scoff but just think about all of those fishing trips and bowling nights - you think his buddies would tell?!

[Evil Inc]

Must be unpaid interns?? Unfortunately this is the course being proscribed by the govt. Fewer marriages, free sex, and sad lonely single 40 somethings whining about not having kids. The circle has already gone 360 degrees and is spiraling downward.