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?
The liberal social engineers are turning the world into one big dogpack.
This is an interesting number. To me, it suggests that the single-mother birthrate, in spite of record promiscuity, is still lower than the married-immigrant (or British-born Moslem) birthrate. Either that, or they're considering it a "two-parent" household if some guy lives with the mother, as recent statistics here did.
This is what a dying society looks like. No culture can withstand the flood of fatherless, undisciplined young men that results from trivializing sex like this. The result is either anarchy or a police state resembling Oceania in “1984”.
Leave Benny alone. BTW isn’t that the chick from Frazier in that pic. I know she started out on the Benny Hill Show.
For the most part, I agree. However, marriage is a precious gift from God that can be horrendously abused, just like sex. Only God can save us from our sins.
Deuteronomy 11:26
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
Malachi 2:2
If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
1 Corinthians 7:28
But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
While I understand your point, I take exception.
While there was certainly a great loss of life in WWI, and to a certain extent during WWII, that alone is not an excuse for what England, Britain and the rest of old Europe has become.
It is a common and simplistice answer for what has happened.
That’s what happens when the British outgrew the need for God.
Who would have guessed?
Consequences of Artificial Methods17. Responsible men can become more deeply convinced of the truth of the doctrine laid down by the Church on this issue if they reflect on the consequences of methods and plans for artificial birth control. Let them first consider how easily this course of action could open wide the way for marital infidelity and a general lowering of moral standards. Not much experience is needed to be fully aware of human weakness and to understand that human beings—and especially the young, who are so exposed to temptation—need incentives to keep the moral law, and it is an evil thing to make it easy for them to break that law. Another effect that gives cause for alarm is that a man who grows accustomed to the use of contraceptive methods may forget the reverence due to a woman, and, disregarding her physical and emotional equilibrium, reduce her to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of his own desires, no longer considering her as his partner whom he should surround with care and affection.
Humanae Vitae (1968)
I don’t believe any species has ever “shagged itself to death” Infact the opposite is usually true
“The abortion rate in Russia... though was still the highest... “
Maybe the researchers don’t consider Russia a “major industrial nation” (snicker,snicker)
That's why Ann has to be demonized. They must suppress the truth, because it exposes the lie of liberal compassion. Since they can't argue the facts, they can only ridicule the messenger.
Either she's a supermodel, or you are someone less than secure about it, but not every single man wants to have sex with every woman he sees all the time. Stores are often seen as good places to buy things, not as pickup joints.
You are right about the feminazis not seeing part B. But they'd like to monkey stomp every man, not just the ones smiling at your wife.
“Shagging” is a mindless flippant term used by someone who has no respect for sex and that’s what happened in Britain.
im with swain on this one
“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.”
See thread above. This is what Newsweek article was saying about hunting vis-a-vis animal de-volution.
Interesting juxtaposition.
"Oh, behave!"
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