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.”
He said “men like watching porn about lesbians.” I said if they were hot, “men are more than happy to watch.” Show me again how these two statements are so different?
Oct 25, 2011: Routine HPV vaccine recommended for boys - The panel that advises the CDC on vaccines recommends that the shot be given to boys ages 11 and 12 in addition to girls, noting that the virus is linked to many other cancers besides cervical.
……However, as of 2010, only about a third of U.S. girls had received the three-dose vaccine, and the rates are plateauing, said Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
Another potential barrier to routine use is money. The three-shot series costs at least $300.
"Year after year we continue to have evidence of low uptake in girls," said Dr. Jane Kim, an assistant professor of health decision science at Harvard School of Public Health who has studied the cost-effectiveness of the HPV vaccine. "When we're at such low coverage for girls, it is of value to vaccinate boys."
It's not clear how well parents will embrace vaccination of their adolescent sons. Those who are dubious should know that vaccination against HPV may help prevent other types of cancers, such as those of the penis, head, neck and mouth, said Dr. Jessica Kahn, associate professor of pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and chair of the vaccinations committee for the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, which supported the recommendation.
Rates of oral cancers are rising, and HPV infection is now thought to account for more cases of oral cancer than tobacco use, Kahn said.
And, she added, the vaccine is just as safe and effective in boys as in girls.
The key to acceptance, Kahn added, will be in making sure that parents understand the range of diseases that HPV can cause in their sons. The role of HPV in cervical cancer is broadly known, she said. "But we fall short in explaining what HPV can cause in boys and men."
But here's what I find more disturbing: men like porn because it involves a gorgeous naked female with a mind like a man. She isn't interested in a relationship, about feelings, about her partner's mind or even his money. She wants SEX, and lots of it. In any form imaginable, and then some. Just like his drinking buddy.
The flip side is the romance novel. The man in a romance novels has a buff body, tight pants, no shirt, and the mind of a woman. He's more interested in feelings, relationships and his partner's mind than he is in sex. The female reader is looking for a stud with her best girlfriend's mind.
Both environments lead to dissatisfaction with a normal partner of the opposite sex.
You and I did NOT grow up reading the same romance novels. Those smutty bodice-rippers of the 1970s and 1980s had the most ruthless, stalking rapists imaginable. They were absolute cads but had two things going for them: they were incredibly hot and generally rich. In the end they cleave to one woman, but as for talking about feelings... most of them just growled something sexy, grabbed her by the hair, and up the stairs they went.
The correct term is monogamy not monogamism which is your made up word. Just like your made up ideas regarding “dawn of mankind”, “wish of the female of our species”, “what is admirable” and “what is unattainable”. Pretty much your post is BS.
All good points. Porn and the purple prose novel - both being fantasy environments where the main actor wins the lottery and does not even have to buy the tickets. Indeed, prescriptions for disappointment, and missing the good that is in reality.
I used to joke that I’d read so many smutty novels, by 16 I thought you couldn’t have sex unless someone was tied up.
Merry Christmas, potlatch!
It’s so good to “see” you!
I like Perry. ;o)
When I was a kid....girls who did trains or gang bangs were hardly coerced or raped
They wanted it and they were no more intoxicated than the boys
Some girls in high school and college were just plain wild...some adult women are too
Group sex is not new....
We have just dropped the stigma.....like everything else to our detriment
I do think super promiscuous girls are looking for male approval
But I am not in favor of relieving them of their own responsibility as well
Wow. That is definitely edgy, and here I thought such novels were all lace and swooning. I would note in passing that -typically- such literature is read by women.
The main issue to me is that porn does dehumanize real people into mere meat puppets. When that attitude is introduced into real life and real lives, the results are brutal and painful. They can scar a person’s spirit.
I’ve come to the conclusion there is no such thing as ‘casual sex’. There is committed sex, and there is predatory sex (which can go both ways and at the same time) but casual? No. It is always important, because at the end of the day there is a real human heart hooked up to those other parts, and hearts are things to handle with care.
It nearly destroyed him, and it ruined his career. It was many decades before he began to find freedom. He began meeting with brothers willing to confess their shame to one another and to stand with each other.
Nate now has a ministry freeing Christian men from this insidious entanglement. He compares two men in the Bible who were anointed by God and who had sexual problems: King David and Samson. One was able to overcome his sin, one died as he defeated his tormentors. David had godly men who stood beside him, and were willing to confront him when needed. Samson walked alone. He was victorious in many things, but lived in defeat to this darker nature within him.
interesting...Thanks
I tend to stay away from women who get their entertainment from trying to start conflicts between guys.
just askin'...
Take a look at our "inner cities" for an example of this. Women having babies from multiple different men, most of them thugs. Being under the protection of a thug shields her from all the OTHER thugs of the neighborhood. Having multiple thugs gives her spare thugs if one gets shot or goes to prison. This is only viable, though, if she has an independent source of support, because the thug boyfriends do not contribute income (rather, they consume).
In a society where monogamous relationships are not strongly backed by law and custom, most of the women will spend their attractive years competing with each other chasing a relatively small number of the most desirable men. These men will move on when a women stops being as attractive as her competition. Marriage and monogamy was likely invented by women, as a means to secure the support of a man past the point where the woman loses her maidenly looks.
People often lose sight of the important while looking at the urgent.
I've read a lot of discussion about rape in women's romance novels being an example of women's power fantasies. Women fantasize about having the power to take a highly desirable man, and make him so insane with lust for her that he's unable to control himself. The rape fantasies in romance novels NEVER involve the pot-bellied middle-aged plumber, or other low-status male.
And, as you said, the power fantasy culminates in the high-status male committing to her. In real life, however, the high-status alpha male is more likely to move on to the next hot women as soon as he gets bored with the relationship with the current woman.
IOW, "When you are up to your butt in alligators it is hard to remember that your original objective was to drain the swamp!"
I'm going to steal your turn of phrase...
Sounds like Holder's people to me: and yet the cover is lissome innocent lily-white suburbanites, the better to alarm people into buying the book.
Having several generations of no fathers around might contribute to this as well, ye ken.
NO cheers, unfortunately!
...oh, and Merry Christmas!
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