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To: steve8714
Why do you think teenage girls don’t welcome sex with an older man?

I'm sure that some of them do. However, girls typically approach the encounter with a different set of expectations than do boys, and have different emotional effects afterwards.

I mean, how often do you hear of a poor young boy being pressured into sex by his girlfriend, versus the other way around? How many men do you know of who felt disappointment or shame after their first sexual encounter?

That's not to say these things never happen, but it is MUCH less frequent among men. And on those rare instances when a boy is reluctant to have sex, or feels disappointment after sex, it is almost always because of religious belief and not for any emotional reasons.

Boys and girls are different, and that difference is magnified when it comes to sex.

61 posted on 01/22/2008 12:37:40 PM PST by timm22 (Think critically)
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To: timm22
I mean, how often do you hear of a poor young boy being pressured into sex by his girlfriend, versus the other way around?

It's happening a lot more often than you think.

How many men do you know of who felt disappointment or shame after their first sexual encounter?

Again, it happens a lot more often than you think. The whole point is that societal pressure for girls not to be sluts and guys to be studs and macho repress stories about those two instances.
68 posted on 01/22/2008 2:08:40 PM PST by dan1123 (You are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. --Jesus)
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To: timm22
How many men do you know of who felt disappointment or shame after their first sexual encounter?

Well, I did, but I was alone, so nobody knew about it.

I agree with your point. When I was a teenager, I had affairs with a couple of different women in their mid-twenties. They both knew about birth control and what they were doing. I was just a dumb kid having a good time, and knew there wasn't going to be a long-term relationship. Each of them had just gotten divorced and looking back, I think they were trying to relive their high school experience as "queen of the prom." They went on to guys their own age and I kept my mouth shut, because it was just as illegal then as it is now.

I had a cousin that fell in love with one of her high school teachers, and it was an entirely different situation. I have no idea how far the relationship went, but her parents sent her to our house for a while. She thought she was going to marry him, and I think it affected her the rest of her life. It just affects girls differently.

90 posted on 01/22/2008 9:24:17 PM PST by Richard Kimball
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