Posted on 12/22/2011 4:25:03 PM PST by wagglebee
BOSTON December 21, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – One in 13 girls aged 14-to-20, or about 7.7 percent, who participated in a recent study from Boston University’s School of Public Health said they have engaged in “Multi-Person Sex” (MPS), reports the Daily Mail. Researchers believe imitation of pornography is a leading cause.
The study involved 328 girls from underprivileged areas of the city who had visited a neighborhood clinic for sexual health issues. However, economic status did not appear to be determinative of risky sexual behavior.
The study found more than half of the girls who had engaged in MPS had been coerced into having group sex by a boy or forced into a “gang rape,” and one-third of participants had used drugs or alcohol before the encounter. In 45 percent of MPS encounters, at least one male did not use a condom.
The average age when girls began having intercourse with multiple partners was 15.6.
Researchers said the use of pornography – by either partner – was a primary influence. “Girls were five times more likely to engage in MPS if they or their boyfriends had watched porn,” said Emily Rothman, an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the university. “Out of those who engaged in MPS, 50 percent did things their partners saw in porn first. Porn may be influencing the sexual behavior of these teens.”
The researchers findings give further credence to the conclusions of Canadian filmmaker Sharlene Azam, whose 2009 documentary Oral Sex is the New Goodnight Kiss documented girls as young as 11 going to sex parties and having intercourse with multiple partners. Azam attributed teenage hypersexual behavior to porn consumption.
Patrick A. Trueman, President of Morality in Media, told LifeSiteNews.com, “While the [Boston University] report is shocking, it is not altogether a surprise because…we know from scientific studies [pornography use] leads one to engage in the same activities that are viewed in the pornographic film.”
A 2005 survey found, “Unwanted porn found its way to 17% of 10- to 11-year-old boys, 16% of girls 10 to 11 years old.”
Trueman, the former Chief of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section of the Justice Department, said that pornography distorts an underdeveloped part of teenagers’ brains known as the prefrontal cortex, which is “the home of good decision-making and reasoning.”
Scientists and psychologists have concluded this has a lifelong impact on growing boys and girls. “While masturbating to porn, the adolescent brain is being shaped around a sexual experience that is isolating, visceral, and completely void of any love or compassion,” wrote Alexandra Katehakis of Psychology Today. “This has the potential to lead to great problems in sexual compulsivity and sex addiction throughout the adolescent boy’s life, because his brain gets shaped to expect the ‘heroin-like’ porn dopamine rush from all of his real-life sexual experiences.” This expectation will lead the teen to “seek out riskier and more visceral experiences that resonate with his early porn use.”
A 2009 CyberSentinel poll claims 13-to-16 year-olds spend almost two hours a week viewing pornography. The average age a child is first exposed to internet pornography is 11.
According to Psychology Today, a 2010 study of 73 Swedish teenagers aged 14-20 revealed that teenage boys who viewed pornography accepted the notion that “women are there solely to satisfy the men’s needs…more or less uncritically.”
Hi sweetie, always good to see you. Hope that ‘building’ project is going well.
Merry Christmas DC!
I’m sorry. I meant there is no risk of rejection from the porn star. You are absolutely correct.
[I’m sorry. I meant there is no risk of rejection from the porn star. You are absolutely correct.]
Thanks gitmo, and Merry Christmas to you!!
Sorry, I should have addressed your second paragraph as well. I meant that the character (not the actress) in the porn movie wants nothing in return, she just wants sex, and lots of it. In any form or fashion. But the point is that she’s not real. And what that does is cause the guy to expect the same from any real-life women .. he expects women to be ready and willing to engage in any kind of sex at any time. And he resents his partner because she’s not behaving like the women he watches in his porn flicks.
My post was explaining the reason men are attracted to porn. They have no commitment to the women, they don’t have any effort and they know they are going to be accepted by their fantasy beauty. The woman in the porn flick never tells him no.
On the other hand, if he tries to approach a woman, even his wife, he must bring something to the table, he must invest time, emotion, work, money in her. He has to try to meet her needs in the encounter, and there is a real risk he will fail to do so. He has to learn to understand her, to meet her emotional needs. He also risks her looking at him and saying no. And if he gets his validation, his sense of self-worth, from his wife (or girlfriend) she owns him.
Stats tell us that two out of three men involved in their church (Protestant or Catholic) have deep issues with pornography. Personally, I think those numbers are low. This thing is kicking our butts, and we aren’t seriously addressing it in our churches.
Upon reading such a poorly supported conclusion I had no interest in reading more. Porn is bad. It works too.
There were several studies cited, with results that had nothing to do with the girls sex behavior; separate studies and results. You didn’t read the whole thing, I guess. I’m not sure what you mean by “It works too”.
Beats me. Honestly, I do not know how many people would honestly want to engage in group sex.
I’m impressed. I’ve always loved your colorful comments, but I think you’ve outdone yourself this time.
Can’t say that I disagree one bit with your post. I’m proud to know a man who loves and respects women as you do.
You are, truly, one of a kind, wardaddy, and Annette is one very blessed woman.
MAY be?
This needs more in depth study!
Grant money!!
Research volunteers!!!
It's a wonder the species propagates at all!
OUCH!
So you see, gentlemen, that what we need in our continuing study of this subject, is a larger sample size.
Uh...
OK...
What we need is MORE study!!!!
You CAN!
Just don’t try to SPEND it!
The fish probably didn’t fear you, either!
And the REST of us fools are footing the bill to SUBSIDIZE all of this!
No Dad?
No Problem - Uncle Sam is here to help.
Romans 1:26-27
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
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