To Teens, Two Heads are Better than One:
I think I was in college before I found someone who enjoyed oral sex and I married her. Now kids are doing it freely….. My God, how times have changed. So, some news and my thoughts in progress on the subject.
Washington - US teenagers apparently prefer oral sex as a safer and morally more acceptable alternative to intercourse, a possible explanation for their rare use of condoms, according to a small poll by the University of California.
Around 20% of the ethnically diverse 580 teenagers - 42% boys, 58% girls with a mean age of 14 - who answered a questionnaire in the study published on Monday, admitted having had oral sex, compared to 14% who had had intercourse.
In addition, one third of the survey group said they intended to experiment with oral sex in the following six months, said the medical researchers headed by University of California pediatrics professor Bonnie Halpern-Felsher.
The teenagers in the survey said they preferred oral sex because they believed it carried "significantly less risk" than intercourse in terms of its health, social and emotional consequences, according to the study.
This perception would explain why condom use among teenagers is so rare, the researchers said.
Although the risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases, including Aids, is considerably lower with oral sex as opposed to regular sexual relations, young people too often underestimate it, said the study published in the latest issue of Pediatrics.
And…
CHICAGO (Reuters) - One in five U.S. teenagers say they have engaged in oral sex, an activity that some adolescents view as not sex at all and certainly less risky than intercourse, a report released Monday said.
The survey of 580 children with a mean age of 14-1/2 found 20 percent said they had engaged in oral sex, compared to 14 percent who said they had engaged in sexual intercourse. In addition, one-third of the multi-ethnic 9th graders surveyed said they intended to have oral sex within the next six months and nearly one-fourth planned to have intercourse during the period. It was more common for boys to have performed oral sex on girls than vice versa, the report said.
Previous studies and numerous campaigns aimed at deterring teenaged sex have focused on intercourse, but as many as half of adolescents experience oral sex first, the report said.
The risk of transmitting infections, including HIV, is significantly less with oral sex than with intercourse but is likely underestimated by teenagers, said the report in the journal Pediatrics. Youngsters who engage in oral sex rarely used condoms or dental dams, even though herpes, hepatitis, gonorrhea, Chlamydia, syphilis as well as the virus that causes AIDS can all be transmitted orally, it added.
"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 non-dating 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," she wrote.
Ok now a lot of people want to blame my President for this, since he got caught with his “hand in the cookie jar”. Gee, that’s pretty easy and also a bunch of bullshit.
Lets look at a few thing’s here:
There is no sex education, nope none, hell even the “This is you Body” filmstrips we watched in 7th grade are to racy for today’s school boards.
However we have been very successful in scaring the fuck out of kids about the dangers of AIDs and getting pregnant (for good reason).
Kids are literal thinkers, oral sex to them is not sex, sex is intercourse, oral sex is a higher form of kissing.
How does this happen, well to the mix lets add:
Little or no adult supervision mom and dad both work, kids have access (here in the heartland children become sexually active around 12)
And the media, don’t believe me sit down and watch some TV with a child aged 7 to 12 and really look at the things they can see on M-TV and regular networks in prime time, hell to see that kind of shit when I was their age, I would have to sneak into my dads sock drawer and steal one of his Playboys.
My point being kids are sexualized much earlier than we were, dont belive me go to your local middle school, some of what you see will freak you right the fuck out.
Times change and shit happens, but instead of fixing problems people want to spend time pointing fingers.
With Thanks to Master Foley for the story idea.
JQP
Washington - US teenagers apparently prefer oral sex as a safer and morally more acceptable alternative to intercourse, a possible explanation for their rare use of condoms, according to a small poll by the University of California.
Around 20% of the ethnically diverse 580 teenagers - 42% boys, 58% girls with a mean age of 14 - who answered a questionnaire in the study published on Monday, admitted having had oral sex, compared to 14% who had had intercourse.
In addition, one third of the survey group said they intended to experiment with oral sex in the following six months, said the medical researchers headed by University of California pediatrics professor Bonnie Halpern-Felsher.
The teenagers in the survey said they preferred oral sex because they believed it carried "significantly less risk" than intercourse in terms of its health, social and emotional consequences, according to the study.
This perception would explain why condom use among teenagers is so rare, the researchers said.
Although the risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases, including Aids, is considerably lower with oral sex as opposed to regular sexual relations, young people too often underestimate it, said the study published in the latest issue of Pediatrics.
And…
CHICAGO (Reuters) - One in five U.S. teenagers say they have engaged in oral sex, an activity that some adolescents view as not sex at all and certainly less risky than intercourse, a report released Monday said.
The survey of 580 children with a mean age of 14-1/2 found 20 percent said they had engaged in oral sex, compared to 14 percent who said they had engaged in sexual intercourse. In addition, one-third of the multi-ethnic 9th graders surveyed said they intended to have oral sex within the next six months and nearly one-fourth planned to have intercourse during the period. It was more common for boys to have performed oral sex on girls than vice versa, the report said.
Previous studies and numerous campaigns aimed at deterring teenaged sex have focused on intercourse, but as many as half of adolescents experience oral sex first, the report said.
The risk of transmitting infections, including HIV, is significantly less with oral sex than with intercourse but is likely underestimated by teenagers, said the report in the journal Pediatrics. Youngsters who engage in oral sex rarely used condoms or dental dams, even though herpes, hepatitis, gonorrhea, Chlamydia, syphilis as well as the virus that causes AIDS can all be transmitted orally, it added.
"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 non-dating 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," she wrote.
Ok now a lot of people want to blame my President for this, since he got caught with his “hand in the cookie jar”. Gee, that’s pretty easy and also a bunch of bullshit.
Lets look at a few thing’s here:
There is no sex education, nope none, hell even the “This is you Body” filmstrips we watched in 7th grade are to racy for today’s school boards.
However we have been very successful in scaring the fuck out of kids about the dangers of AIDs and getting pregnant (for good reason).
Kids are literal thinkers, oral sex to them is not sex, sex is intercourse, oral sex is a higher form of kissing.
How does this happen, well to the mix lets add:
Little or no adult supervision mom and dad both work, kids have access (here in the heartland children become sexually active around 12)
And the media, don’t believe me sit down and watch some TV with a child aged 7 to 12 and really look at the things they can see on M-TV and regular networks in prime time, hell to see that kind of shit when I was their age, I would have to sneak into my dads sock drawer and steal one of his Playboys.
My point being kids are sexualized much earlier than we were, dont belive me go to your local middle school, some of what you see will freak you right the fuck out.
Times change and shit happens, but instead of fixing problems people want to spend time pointing fingers.
With Thanks to Master Foley for the story idea.
JQP
posted by John Q. Public esq. at 2:20 PM
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