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No-strings sex takes toll in UK
Waterbury Republican-American ^ | January 13, 2009 | Editorial

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?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: british; greatbritain; moralabsolutes; promiscuity; promiscuous; sex; std; unitedkingdom
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

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.


21 posted on 01/13/2009 6:58:23 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: Varda
Do we know for sure that the problem is the ethnic Brits? Unless there is a demographic breakdown of the data provided why should we not believe of the problem is caused by an influx of Caribbean and African immigrants?


22 posted on 01/13/2009 7:00:58 AM PST by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: Sherman Logan
I find this highly unlikely.

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.

23 posted on 01/13/2009 7:01:27 AM PST by hunter112 (We seem to be on an excrement river in a Native American watercraft without a propulsion device.)
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To: Poison Pill
Men are pigs by nature.

Interesting how on this issue, conservatives and feminazis have managed to find common ground.

24 posted on 01/13/2009 7:03:38 AM PST by hunter112 (We seem to be on an excrement river in a Native American watercraft without a propulsion device.)
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To: nathanbedford

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.


25 posted on 01/13/2009 7:10:15 AM PST by Varda
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To: McKayopectate; Graybeard58
This shoots the movie “Love Actually” between the eyes where a young Brit’s goal is go to America for an easy lay. He should’ve looked in his own backyard.

Maybe he also wanted the girl to have good teeth too?

26 posted on 01/13/2009 7:10:29 AM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: Dr. Sivana

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.


27 posted on 01/13/2009 7:12:10 AM PST by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My cartridges are lubricated with pig grease!")
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To: Varda

Lack of religion and morals, lack of pride in self and country, also play a role.


28 posted on 01/13/2009 7:12:37 AM PST by alarm rider ("Father, let me dedicate all this year to thee". Lawrence Tuttiett (1825-1897))
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To: swain_forkbeard

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


29 posted on 01/13/2009 7:14:32 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out
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To: Graybeard58
Not surprising, any of these, though I can't confirm the validity of any of those statistics. But it's clear that Britain, which once had its own viable Film Industry, long ago lost it..... it has been replaced by the much tinier, but probably more profitable British Porn Industry. Something unthinkable 35 years ago.
30 posted on 01/13/2009 7:14:46 AM PST by supremedoctrine ("One was drawing funny faces, but his own was grave"--Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica)
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To: alarm rider

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.


31 posted on 01/13/2009 7:15:34 AM PST by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: Graybeard58

This is one newspaper I don’t want to see go bankrupt.

May all the liberal rags do so, soon.


32 posted on 01/13/2009 7:16:34 AM PST by ConservativeMind (What's "Price Gouging"? Should government force us to sell to the 15th highest bidder on eBay?)
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To: Varda
I have no doubt about the drinking part. I recall an overnight ferry ride from Ireland to Liverpool with drunks of every age and station passed out all over the decks covered in their own vomit. Their condition was not attributable to Mal da mer.


33 posted on 01/13/2009 7:17:25 AM PST by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: Graybeard58

No, I can’t believe it!


34 posted on 01/13/2009 7:18:56 AM PST by Tax-chick (To oppose the god of this world by lifting up Christ.)
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To: hunter112
Interesting how on this issue, conservatives and feminazis have managed to find common ground.

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

35 posted on 01/13/2009 7:19:37 AM PST by Poison Pill (Help, I've voted Republican and I can't get up!)
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To: Graybeard58
"... 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 ... who hopes that eventually, enough women will engage in short-term mating that one will be desperate enough to do it with him.
36 posted on 01/13/2009 7:21:00 AM PST by Tax-chick (To oppose the god of this world by lifting up Christ.)
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To: Graybeard58

“...”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.


37 posted on 01/13/2009 7:21:47 AM PST by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: dfwgator

“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.


38 posted on 01/13/2009 7:25:50 AM PST by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: alarm rider
It really is a post Christian culture. The churches there are more museums than anything else. They do have pride but it's in being environmentally conscious or animal rights sensitive. I didn't see a lack pride in country. American kids definitely lack this, so it stuck out to me.
39 posted on 01/13/2009 7:26:03 AM PST by Varda
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To: swain_forkbeard
As a man, I find it hard to come out against lots of women willing to have no-strings sex.

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.

40 posted on 01/13/2009 7:27:01 AM PST by Theophilus (The people who were going to buy your home got aborted 30 years ago.)
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