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?
How many daughters do you have?
Nothing changes a man's attitude toward sex like watching his daughter go on her first date. I'll wager you haven't done that yet.
There is no such thing as "no-strings" sex. Sex always creates deep and reverberating consequences of which one can be cognoscente and contemplative of or not. To not care about the impact of your profound actions on yourself, your mate and your potential offspring is irrational and devoid of natural affection.
its the Hooters culture.....anything goes, anything is okay, and everything is explained and rationalized and moralized....
what....a operation to kill off unborn babies?....what, a pill to prevent pregnancies?...a pill to make your pecker more active?...titty bars?..titty tv shows and movies?....obscene lyrics?...video games that simulate rape and murder?....Hooter bars for the family?....bikini coffee shovelers?
all relative.....
I liked what you said, and I think it can be used in many situations. For instance....
An abstraction used to make a point you’re not grasping.
(fill in the blank) restricts more bad than good and liberates more good than bad.
(fill in the blank) want one side of the equation but not the other.
They don’t get the irony that by pushing their agenda in the short run, they kill it in the long run.
what about out guys dying in Iraq and Afghanistan?.....I know number wise they don't compare to WW2 but each and everyone will be missed......
God help us please....
“what....a operation to kill off unborn babies?....what, a pill to prevent pregnancies?...a pill to make your pecker more active?...titty bars?..titty tv shows and movies?....obscene lyrics?...video games that simulate rape and murder?....Hooter bars for the family?....bikini coffee shovelers?”
Check out this link, and schedule some time later for yourself to watch the video(movie).
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There is a college “ethic” that posits “friends with benefits.” During sex, women tend to bond more than men do with their mate. When the “friends with benefits” relationship ages, the co-ed is left without a friend (he has become more whether she sees it or not) and with no benefits (the sex no longer thrills because she realizes she is being used). The new co-eds are not called freshmen; they are called “fresh meat.” How liberating.
encourages us to get involved.
Besides a display of low morals, I detect a reading comprehension difficulty here.
Would you be liberated? Then glorify God with your body and the body of your wife. Don't turn your ecstatic blessing into a bitter curse.
Don’t try to confuse the moralists by pointing out the obvious.
I think the larger point is that along with he loss of so many lives (and the horrors of the Somme and Stalingrad and Buchenwald) came a loss of righteousness in Western Europe. Positivism was replaced by relativism. If our culture brought us to this, then what is our culture worth? It’s a fair question.
Just...WOW.
“...not every single man wants to have sex with every woman he sees all the time.”
You’re right. The married ones do too.
You’d lose that wager.
WWI was certainly a mess in that empires were won and lost,
traditional cultures were uprooted and changed, and the class system (love it or hate It it had it's reasons for being) was almost wiped out.
I think you could argue that even with a lack of a war such as the Great War, Europe would have changed anyway. With the rise of institutional Socialism in 1917, sooner of later Europe would have had to stand.
I agree with many people that in truth, WWI did not end in 1918, but more like 1945. Some would say that WWII actually ended the day the Berlin Wall came down.
Matters not really, what Europe became was due to many reasons, and most certainly lack of a true moral compass is telling to this day.
IMO, there will be another European war (isn't there always another one), but the next one will in no way resemble any we have seen before.
Britain’s demographic nightmare.
“A nation that kills its children is a nation without hope.” John Paul II
Good answer, and I think you’re right that casual sex often has unanticipated consequences, especially for young women.
But, like it or not, modern contraception has materially altered the presumptions and expectations of a sexual relationship. We easily accept that the invention of the transistor and the internet have changed the way people communicate. Why so difficult to accept that the invention of the pill has changed the way people have sex?
“...I detect a reading comprehension difficulty here.”
But you don’t really think that, do you?
So what I detect is that my question made you angry.
“...most certainly lack of a true moral compass is telling to this day.”
That was my point. That the world wars not only killed people and felled empires and ended dynasties, but also shattered the moral compass. Again - if our moral compass led us here, of what worth is our moral compass?
So the moral compass was shattered but not replaced. And that is the condition much of the West finds itself in today.
“...each and everyone will be missed......
God help us please....”
Yes, “any man’s death diminishes me”. God help us all.
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