Mr. Clinton's gift

Waterbury Republican-American ^ | April 17, 2005 | Editorial

[Graybeard58]

Reuters wrote recently on a study about teenagers and oral sex. A survey of 580 14- and 15-year olds found 20 percent had engaged in oral sex compared with 14 percent who admitted they had engaged in sexual intercourse. A third said they intended to have oral sex within the next six months, and a majority said they believe oral sex is not sex and not as risky as intercourse.

But just because they think that doesn't make it so. If oral sex wasn't sex, it wouldn't have sex in its name. And as health authorities note, teenagers underestimate their risk of transmitting or contracting herpes, hepatitis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis and HIV through oral sex.

"Given the suggestion that adolescents do not view oral sex as sex and see oral sex as a way of preserving their virginity while still gaining intimacy and sexual pleasure, they are likely to interpret sexual health messages as referring to vaginal sex," wrote lead author Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, a pediatrician at the University of California, San Francisco. "Adolescents also believed that oral sex is more acceptable than vaginal sex for adolescents their own age in both dating and nondating situations, oral sex is less of a threat to their values and beliefs, and more of their peers will have oral sex than vaginal sex in the near future."

But Reuters failed to explain this phenomenon, why otherwise intelligent teenagers don't believe than something called "oral sex" is not sex.

Reuters did not name the person who deserves all the credit for putting the idea in young minds that oral sex among consenting 14-year-olds is morally acceptable, is safer than intercourse and does not constitute "sexual relations." Thanks, Bill, for putting so many children at risk and for making parenting so much more difficult.

[Graybeard58]

Clinton and that thing he is married to are two peas in the same pod.

I cannot stand the thought of another Clinton co-presidency.

[C210N]

If oral sex wasn't sex, it wouldn't have sex in its name.

Exactly. Does "Country driving" involve driving a car? Isn't a "business school" a school? Is an "apple pie" a pie?

[andyandval]

But they're a lovely couple!

[nothingnew]

And as health authorities note, teenagers underestimate their risk of transmitting or contracting herpes, hepatitis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis and HIV through oral sex.

"Bill Cliton...the gift that keeps on giving".

FMCDH(BITS)

[nothingnew]

JHC!!! That is the scariest picture of the Terrible Two I've ever seen.

FMCDH(BITS)

[rellimpank]

---Mr/Mrs Dorian Gray--?

[ErnBatavia]

Is an "apple pie" a pie?

Not after that kid in that movie got through with it....nosiree.

[Hildy]

You know, oral sex existed before Bill Clinton.

[bannie]

Kids used to give "oral reports."

We can't call them that any longer.

[ErnBatavia]

You know, oral sex existed before Bill Clinton.

I'll bet you a buck to a dougnut that it didn't exist in the Oval Office, though......naw; for a second I forgot about JFK...

[Peach]

f oral sex wasn't sex, it wouldn't have sex in its name.

Why didn't I think of that? LOL

[Hildy]

Hey, I resemble that remark!

[bray]

Rumor has it that Hilarycare rob'em is so desperate to be President she may start sleeping with men!

Pray for W and Our Troops

[MilspecRob]

" If oral sex wasn't sex, it wouldn't have sex in its name

Well then is "Phone Sex" really sex?

[bvw]

Yes. And having "sex" with yourself.

[ThreePuttinDude]

Hey, it's the King of Camelot

[andyandval]

HC Rob'em! LOL!

[jslade]

[Mo1]

all depends on what IS is