Posted on 01/13/2009 6:28:35 AM PST by Graybeard58
To the cheers of social scientists, Britain has been named the most promiscuous major industrial nation based on the "international sociosexuality index," which measures attitudes toward one-night stands, casual sex and numbers of partners. (The United States finished sixth.)
Researchers say Britain's ranking is empowering for women because it means they now are as able as men to engage in no-strings sex. "Historically we have repressed women's short-term mating and there are all sorts of double standards out there where men's short-term mating was sort of acceptable but women's wasn't," said lead researcher David Schmitt, a psychology professor at Bradley University in Illinois. They attributed Britain's ranking to the decline of religious scruples, the highly sexualized culture and other factors. All good things, apparently.
Missing from the study and the fawning news coverage were the collateral-damage data:
The Health Protection Agency says sexually transmitted diseases in Britain have never been higher. STDs in 2006, the last year full data were available, were up 6 percent over 2005; of the 380,000 new cases, 200,000 occurred among 16- to 24-year-olds.
Britain is fast becoming the abortion capital of the world. Government statistics show abortions in 2007 increased by 2.5 percent; the number performed on girls under 16 jumped 10 percent. Its abortion rate is No. 1 in Europe and No. 3 in the world, behind only the United States and Australia, where rates have been falling steadily for years.
The teen-pregnancy rate is soaring and is the second highest in the world behind the United States, a UNICEF study found. The spike is occurring even though the government has spent more than $100 million in the last three years to cut the rate in half by 2010.
The most recent report on social trends by the Office for National Statistics found a record 1 in 4 children in Britain live in households headed by a single parents — overwhelmingly single mothers. That's three times the proportion of 1972, while the rate of two-parent families has fallen from 52 percent to 37 percent, a new low. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development says Britain's welfare system is second only to Ireland's in making it more lucrative for single mothers to stay on the government dole. And predictably, single mothers and their children continue to suffer from some of the worst social and cultural pathologies.
How exactly is any of this empowering for women?
Wow, I didn’t think I’d see the day when the left was actually open about their goals and opinions on this matter.
Yes, the “women’s liberation” movement IS about women being able to act in as socially a reprehensible manner as men without morals and character. I just didn’t think they’d admit it!
Instead of requiring men to behave better (thus IMPROVING society), they openly desire for everyone to behave reprehensibly.
Many “feminists” DETEST the idea that women are to be the moral/sexual “gatekeepers” to keep men from acting on their base fleshly desires.
I find it quite likely. In the US, we have different attitudes about conception control than others in this world. I'd say that we rely much, much more on abstinence-only sex education than the rest of the world, especially in Europe.
As we've famously seen a few months ago, teen pregnancy often results from the mixed messages kids get.
Interesting how on this issue, conservatives and feminazis have managed to find common ground.
I looked it up a while ago. What I read confirmed my impression when I was there, it’s the ethnic Brits. Teenagers there seem to be out of control. IMO drinking plays a large part.
Maybe he also wanted the girl to have good teeth too?
In today’s Russia:
The highest abortion rate among Caucasian women.
The lowest life expectancy (59) among Caucasian males.
And Putin thinks he will restore Russia as a Great Power to be feared? He may have to rely on foreign mercenaries.
Lack of religion and morals, lack of pride in self and country, also play a role.
Of course I know what you mean. But the reality is disease, scratchy old hos, and painful growths and bugs. The fantasy is very different.
Since becoming a christian I realise that Gods way is better, and more sexually fulfilling
People don’t realize the incredible toll the loss of the best of British men from WWI and WWII took, Britain will never recover from that.
This is one newspaper I don’t want to see go bankrupt.
May all the liberal rags do so, soon.
No, I can’t believe it!
They really are just half way there. And not for the right reasons. To wit:
I walk into a store with my wife. A single man sees her and wants to have sex with her. He doesn't try because...
A) She is with me and he knows that she has empowered herself by choosing me. He respects her as an individual and goes off to seek a partner who wants to empower herself by screwing him.
B) He knows I will monkey stomp him if he tries.
The feminists never pick B
“...”Historically we have repressed women’s short-term mating and there are all sorts of double standards out there where men’s short-term mating was sort of acceptable but women’s wasn’t,” said lead researcher David Schmitt, a psychology professor at Bradley University...”
Of course they could have approached the double standard by trying to get men to be less ape like. The double standard existed in the eyes of society and not the eyes of God. Instead of feeling sorry for women in the double standard they should have felt sorry for men for falling further short of what God wants.
“People don’t realize the incredible toll the loss of the best of British men from WWI and WWII took...”
Add French losses in WWI and the South’s in The War. Civilization is a game of inches at best and when the Reaper takes so many of the very best society does indeed suffer the consequences.
If you're not being facetious, then your attitude about sex is even less rational and devoid of natural affection then most other mammals, if that is possible.
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