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Posted on 12/02/2004 7:49:38 AM PST by esryle
Teen Says He Lost Virginity At 9
CLEVELAND -- Research shows 16 percent of girls and 20 percent of boys have engaged in sexual intercourse by the time they reach their 14th birthday. For some fourth- and fifth-graders, sex is the topic of school lunch room conversations almost daily.
In a special report, NewsChannel5's Deb Lee explored the troubling statistics.
Lee talked with a 15-year-old Cleveland-area girl who is enrolled at the Pepper Pike Alcohol Treatment Center for kids about her experiences with alcohol and sex.
The teen said kids are having sex as young as 11 and 12 years old. She added that it happens at house parties in Cleveland and surrounding suburbs, where the liquor flows so freely and girls sometimes black out.
“I know at least six or seven girls that are my good friends that got raped the first time they ever had sex,” she said. “That's how they lost their virginity by getting raped at a party while they were under the influence.”
Another teen, who will be called Jay, also knows about the parties. He's also from the Cleveland area and was a resident at the treatment center. Jay, who is 18 now, said he had sex at an early age, too.
"I lost my virginity when I was 9 years old," he said. "Most of the time, it's us boys pressuring the girls to do this, do that. But sometimes it's not all our fault. Sometimes girls be dressing all trashy... you see them out in the street with their little short skirts and tank tops and stuff."
Another teen says TV glorifies sex.
"They're all drinking and getting drunk and everything and the rappers are talking about doing drugs and having sex with people and all that," a teen said.
Dr. Slyvia Rimm, an area expert on child psychology, has interviewed hundreds of children around the country for a book on habits of middle schoolers.
Lee said she discovered that second-, third- and fourth-graders are talking about sex.
"The oral sex, even a generation ago, wasn't common in high school and now is common as early as 8th grade and even common in high school and taken lightly, I'm sorry to say, in our former president's words," Rimm said.
Lee reported that former President Bill Clinton’s statement: “I did not have sex with that woman... Miss Lewinsky," -- has had an impact.
She said teens do not think oral sex counts as sex.
"I think there can be real psychological harm when kids are that young” Rimm said.
Many teens are choosing abstinence and sobriety. In fact, the 15-year-old in the story sought help through treatment and is now beginning a new life, in a new community, at a new school.
"I'm not going to have the peer pressure, and I'm gonna be able to do what I need to do to help myself," she said.
This is the true Clinton Legacy is this. That also depends on the meaning of what 'is' is.
14? My goodness! We didn't do that when I was that age. The girls I ran around with didn't. We thought we were too YOUNG! Then I found out recently at a get together with some gals I went to high school with, that SOME of them DID have sex in 8th grade and 10th grade. YIKES~
I was so lucky that the boy I dated all through high school never tried to do that with me. We planned from the beginning to be married some day and he treated me with respect. I broke up with him when we were in our 20s, but I was always grateful that he wasn't like that. 14 is too young to DATE~
Last night I dreamed I was at a party, and this was BEFORE I read this, and I was young and everyone was all cuddled up and making out. I said to everyone, "We are too young for this!" And I refused to join in. Funny that I dreamed that last night and then read this today. Psychic....
No really, let's call him something else...
Thank you William Jefferson Blythe Clinton.
I wonder if there will be a special wing in that glorified trailer house in Little Rock dedicated to "screwing up how children think."?
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Oral Sex = SODOMY! One step BEYOND intercourse and into perversion. Clinton = Pervert.
During impeachment my youngest son went from asking me what it meant for a cat to "be in heat" to KNOWING what oral sex was. Thanks Clinton! That IS his legacy.
THE STAIN.
Stories like this have "Sweeps Week Ratings Ploy" written all over them.
It is amazing to me that he is part of that elite group of 43 men.
Might as well drop the age to one. That way no one gets hurt. </sarcasm off>
The real Clintoon legacy is before us.
No, EVERYTHING is ok as long as you use a condom. Celebrate diversity.
Somehow, this phrase seems to encapsulate the entire story.
And where the hell are the parents?
And BTW I am going to look up Ecc. 10:2 today. I LOVE that book. It stays current and timely no matter the age.
House Parties in elementary school? Well, this is Cleveland...
Some have to work for greatness others have it thrust < excuse the pun > upon them.
I see "Jay" also speaks Eubonics.
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