Posted on 09/10/2009 10:20:13 AM PDT by IbJensen
CNSNews.com) – From March 2002 to March 2003, the federal government paid more than a thousand 15- to 17-year-olds $40 each to answer questions about their sex lives, including intimate questions about specific sexual acts, whether they had ever engaged in homosexual acts, whether they had used contraception, and what sorts of discussions they had had with their parents about sex.
Armed with laptops loaded with two questionnaires, one for females and one for males, more than 200 federally funded female questioners from the University of Michigan went into homes throughout the country to administer the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) on the behalf of the National Center for Health Statistics.
The NCHS is part of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.
“Out of the 12,571 males and females we interviewed in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth, 1,307 were 15-17 years of age,” Dr. William D. Mosher, statistician and NSFG team leader at the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Md., told CNSNews.com.
According to questionnaires published by the CDC in a public document available on the government agency’s Web site (“Plan of Operation of Cycle 6 of the National Survey of Family Growth”), young teens were systematically asked graphic and personal questions about their sexual behavior out of earshot or the presence of their parents.
The answers were tabulated and put in a federal database on the behavior--including the sexual behavior--of those 15 to 44.
The questions relating to sex started with a general inquiry, as listed here from the female questionnaire:
-- “At any time in your life, have you ever had sexual intercourse with a man, that is, made love, had sex, or gone all the way? Yes / No” (Question CE1 asked of teen girls)
Teens were asked about a list of heterosexual sex acts, including oral sex. (CNSNews.com will not go into detail, but the actual questions are available from the questionnaire.)
-- “Here are some things you may have done with a male. For each activity, answer yes if you have ever done it with a male even once. Answer no if you have never done it with a male.” (Question J8).
--“Has a male ever. . . (the question then describes particular sexual practices)? Yes /No” (Question JD-1 asked of teen girls)
The list of sex practices can be found in the survey questionnaires listed in the CDC Cycle Six planning document, which explicitly lays out how the 2002 survey was designed and carried out.
Teens 15 to 17, for instance, were questioned about their sexual orientation and whether they have ever had a sexually transmitted disease (STDs).
Teen girls, meanwhile, were specifically questioned about any lesbian (homosexual) “encounters.”
-- “The next question asks about sexual experience you may have had with another female. Have you ever had any sexual experience of any kind with another female? Yes/ No.” (Question JG-1)
-- “Thinking about your entire life, how many female sex partners have you had? Number ___.” (Question J-G2)
-- “Thinking about the last 12 months, that is, since (INTERVIEW MONTH), how many female sex partners have you had? Number ___.” (Question JG-3)
Like females, males aged 15-17 were queried about sex. The NSFG questionnaire for males asked about “up to three” recent female sexual partners in the 12 months preceding the interview, according to the CDC’s “Cycle 6” document.
-- “So that I can refer to her in the interview, please give me the name or initials of the female with whom you had sexual intercourse. (Question BD-1)
The survey explained the government's interest in learning the characteristics of the sexual partners of teen males.
“Partner characteristics are important in assessing the changing patterns of condom use--trends central to the prevention of teen pregnancy, unintended pregnancy, STDs, and HIV. Data on his partners included their demographic characteristics, dates of first and last sex, contraceptive methods used, and pregnancy outcomes,” the document explained.
Like teen girls, all males aged 15-17 were specifically asked questions about a list of explicit homosexual sex practices and whether they had engaged in any of them, as taken from the male questionnaire listed in the CDC’s methodology document:
-- “The next questions ask about sexual experience you may have had with another male. Have you ever done any of the following with another male?” (Question KH0 to males)
The questions covered a variety of sexual topics. For example, both questionnaires asked the following of all respondents including 15-17 year-olds) who had answered that hey had engaged in sex:
-- “What is the chance that if your partner used a condom during sex, you would feel less physical pleasure? No chance. A little chance. A 50-50 chance. A pretty good chance. An almost certain chance.”
Meanwhile, all teen-agers--male or female--who took part in the survey were asked to assess moral questions about sexuality, such as:
-- “Sexual relations between two adults of the same sex are all right. Do you strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree?”
Under one section of the questionnaire titled “Sex Communication,” (series CF) those between the ages of 15-19, were shown cards containing topics pertaining to sex education at home--and asked questions.
Voyeurism is sad enough. But this is how some folks get their jollies?
Where were the parents???? No way would I have allowed this to happen to my minor child.
The lady they sent to interview me was pretty cute, and the questions were stunningly intrusive and personal. I simply began to ask her similar questions (in somewhat coarser tones), and when she asked me, "Have you ever....?" I began to ask her if she would like to. She abruptly discontinued the interview and departed ;-)
Note the years....2002, 2003. GW Bush was president at this time....obviously no real conservative. This was allowed to go on
If they had just targeted the homes of rich liberal elites - and hit on their children - at least this would be funny. But my guess is they went after the children of the middle class.
Have you ever clubbed a pollster?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
[ ] Not until now
Why can’t they just leave the kids alone?
Dollars to Donuts says they work for ACORN
If Acorn had anything to do with this I am satisfied the same ones took the survey fifteen or twenty times.
So, what are the names of the folks asking the questions and have they been picked up and booked yet?
BTW, this happened with the Washington Post quite a few years ago ~ they sent a bunch of reporters down to the Boy Scout National Jamboree to question minor children (Boy Scouts) regarding sexual behavior.
The editor(s) who did that ended up getting removed from the newspaper after the Post Board of Directors was contacted by the county sheriff about who they wanted to come down and face charges.
We need something like that here.
Gee, almost makes you want to join a tax revolt.
When my kids were in 7th grade they got a sex and drugs survey in school. They didn’t take it seriously. One of my favorites was from a friend of theirs. To the question, “Have you had sex?” he wrote in, “Do animals count?”
Because they are the key to radically remaking our society, in part by destroying its dominant structures, such as the traditional family.
the govt is so big that the right foot doesn’t know what the left is doing. I don’t think Bush said “yeah let’s ask the kids about sex.” But he sure didn’t have a handle over the bureaucracy which was getting larger and larger.
At 15 I could have told some whoppers for $40.
Has Slick Willie found a day job?
Look at Obama for example ~ he actually thinks he has a health care bill that does things it doesn't do while it doesn't do other things he says it does.
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