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.”
I missed it the first time!
Here's another...
... the real power is squarely in their hands....
Baaaaad analogy.
Even Kinsey’s group still gets state funding Our Taxes in Indiana.
FINALLY!
Someone else who knows that 'government money' is a big lie!
It works the other way as well.
But look at all the time you'll waste looking for your OWN glasses!
Not at all what I said or meant.
A larger self selected sample would give equally meaningless results.
Melas pointed out a sample of attendees at an AA meeting would not give an accurate take on American drinking habits.
A sample of attendees at 20 different AA meetings would not give an accurate take on American drinking habits.
A sample of attendees at 2,000 different AA meetings would not give an accurate take on American drinking habits.
Sample only girls who show up at a free sexually transmitted disease clinic and you'll get a biased impression of overall behavior, no matter how many you sample.
So you were not "bragging" (of your conquests) but lamenting (your pillaged status). My condolences.
g_w
Have you ever read the Lord Peter Wimsey novels of Dorothy L. Sayers?
Cheers!
...oh, and Merry Christmas.
Miranda Kerr? I'm guessing Christie Kerr!
Cheers!
...oh, and Merry Christmas.
You’re happier not searching for images of Gabourey Sidibe.
Just trust me on this one.
g_w
I'll bet we didn't mean that either... ;^)
It MUST have been all of my sweet and kind posts during these years!
(Have you met Elsiejay?)
Doe had a really good question at the end of her post. Care to take a crack at it?
Let’s see: was that “He kisses her on the strikes and she kisses him . . .
Another term that might be more appropriate is, “Grooming”.
The goal is to break down the natural and protective modesty of children. Now that homosexuals have a grip on our nation's socialist-entitlement schools the “grooming” will get bolder.
Nope. Not worth my time.
I’m not sure what you mean by “It works too”.
Porn addicts a person to their own neurotransmitters, much as does television in general: Fear, Flight, Food, Sex... over and over. It induces a person to treat the source as a form of authority. They replicate "successful" behaviors thereon.
As intended. The Gramscian model is now tried and true: Instead of bread and circuses, we have bread, sex, and circuses.
I didn’t mean to say, I said and meant.
Look it up.
Say and mean, present tense.
Said and meant, past tense.
See what I mean?
I meant to do that...
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