"Shocking" report re teen girls

Where has Ms. Banks been, hiding under a rock? This comes as no surprise, really. Excerpt:

'More than 10,000 teenage girls and young women took part in an anonymous survey over the summer on TyraShow.com, the Web site of “The Tyra Banks Show.” Survey questions focused on sexuality, sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancy, as well as drinking, drugs and violence among females. Here are some findings from the survey:

* On average, girls are losing their virginity at 15 years of age.
* 14 percent of teens who are having sex say they’re doing it at school.
* 52 percent of survey respondents say they do not use protection when having sex.
* One in three says she fears having a sexually transmitted disease.
* 24 percent of teens with STDs say they still have unprotected sex.
* One in five girls says she wants to be a teen mom.
* About 50 percent acknowledge that they’ve hit someone.

* One out of three teens has tried drugs.'

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manonthestreet

I don't know how much of this is disturbing. Girls having sex is not in itself a bad thing. There is nothing wrong in young people enjoying themselves sexually. I suspect that people are at their sexually pinnacle in their late teens. I am supposing that these young girls are having sex with boys of a more or less similar age. So both get the benefit of enjoying sex at a time when the experience is at its most intense.

When I was their age a long time ago I genuinely thought that sex was something that belong to the adult world. Although there where no opportunities I can see that those years where wasted years. Quite frankly I wish I had been able to take advantage of the same sexual opportunities that this survey suggests are available now.

My opposition to feminism and to feminization has nothing to do with trying to stop women giving men or boys some sexual comfort. Indeed I wish there was more of it.

As to disease this is clearly not a good thing, but I am sceptical. I recall even in my youth the same sort of thing taking place with people being intimidated by stories of VD. Controlling sexual behaviour is not to me really relevant to the MM.

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I wish that these boys knew the risks of getting someone pregnant and could talk to a teen dad that I'm sure would tell (on average) how F#^@ed over they got with child support even though the girl didn't tell them of there intention on getting pregnant or lied about being on the pill, then they may think twice. Although it's almost unfair at that age due to hormones, culture and peer pressure if a guy didn't have sex he'd be labeled gay or the like plus I think many woman think they had the monopoly on hormones controlling there actions as a teen, but guys are "victims" to their hormones as well.

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And instead, blaming the boys.

Here's a chestnut for you, taken from the chicks that did the follow-up show:

“A lot of the guys, if I didn’t have unprotected sex with them, they would get mad at me and I still wanted that closeness with them,” one girl says during the show. “I was afraid if I didn’t do what they wanted, they wouldn’t be my friend.”

So...once again, evil, dirty, nasty, stinky, boys are responsible for coercing girls into unprotected sex. Yet...20% want to be mommies.

Something does not fit here.

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manonthestreet

“I was afraid if I didn’t do what they wanted, they wouldn’t be my friend.”

Does this make much sense to you? It certainly not something that exists in my experience. As I teenager I don't recall girls wanting to be my friend or indeed being bothered in the slightest about how any boy felt. They where totally aloof and manipulative. Are things so different now with girls wanting to be my friend and willing to give all to maintain it? Well if I had a sense of humour I would be laughing now

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Most girls probably don't worry about what other guys think, but the kind of girls that watch the Tyra Banks show sure as hell are.

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