Teens are suffering from cancers considered only for old people. Teen bodies are not made for sex and do not have the same immune system as adults of 25 and older.
*Every third girl has the human papilloma virus (HPV). HPV causes 99.7% of cervical cancer cases that kills over 5000 women each year.
* One out of ten has chlamydia.
* Almost half of all students in grades nine through twelve have had sex.
* Half of all girls are likely to be infected with an STD during their first sexual experience.
* Nearly one in four sexually active teens have an STD.
* Teens will contract nearly one in four of the 15 million new cases of STDs this year.
* Teens make up 10% of the population, but they contract up to 25% of all STDs.
* Herpes (specifically herpes simplex type 2 or "genital herpes") has skyrocketed 500% among white teenagers in the last 20 years. One in five kids have herpes. Herpes has no cure.
* One in five children above age twelve tests positive for herpes type 2.
* One in ten teenage girls has Chlamydia; half of all new Chlamydia cases each year are diagnosed in girls 15 to 19 years old. link ___________________________________ Think of the health care costs; therefore, this makes it a major political issue. Why is it silenced by the very health organizations we pay to keep Americans informed of threats to life? It's a red hot political football and it's time we push the media to report what teens are struggling with and how it effects the next generation.
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Posts: 6275 | Location: Maine | Registered: 31 December 2005
Originally posted by Gnarlodious: I'm surprised George Bush allows that to happen. Maybe he isn't such a great conservative president after all.
Makes me wish for the age of innocence, back what Bill Clinton was getting blowjobs from interns.
That's HPV1 - oral cancer once only found by tobacco users and smokers - and no longer.
Go to the N C I site and any politically correct cancer site and the word they will not use is - prevention (except of course the lies about naturally flawed latex/condoms),
How to treat and collect huge amounts of money for research of various cancers is common and acceptable, but ways to prevent cancers are like a disease concept in itself and a much detested concept obviously.
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Posts: 6275 | Location: Maine | Registered: 31 December 2005
What about the Corporatist ideology and perception of womanhood.
When one hears the phrase "Easy Breezy Beautiful Covergirl" they are not talking about intelligent self-fulfilled women who have other interests besides shopping for clothes and attracting guys.
To me "breezy" means having the IQ of Kelly Bundy.
That said, one is technically a "teen" until one is twenty. If any of you out there made it to twenty with your "virtue" in tact, please tell us.
No one wants our kids to start off too young. If our kids to lose their "virtue", we hope that it is with someone they trust, can depend on and talk to, and not someone they either feel uncomfortable talking to about the important things or who was out to exploit them.
That said, GG where do you get your figures from?
Posts: 771 | Location: Winnipeg | Registered: 06 September 2001
Not so in the real world. Money making organizations want our kids sexually active and engaged, the sooner the better.
It only takes one experience to get an STD, It will be a suffering and affliction for the rest of their life. It will be an experience that can cause cancer, infertility and many many heart breaks of inability to being a suitable mate for marriage. Also children of one afflicted with an STD are endangered.
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we hope that it is with someone they trust, can depend on and talk to, and not someone they either feel uncomfortable talking to about the important things or who was out to exploit them.
Youth are not prepared for sex, psychologically and physically. You can be certain those that propose sex for youth are out to exploit them, use them for profit and sexual gratification.
An STD is not always visible. A carrier might not even be aware they are spreading cancer and disease.
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Posts: 6275 | Location: Maine | Registered: 31 December 2005
Money making organizations want our kids sexually active and engaged, the sooner the better.
Five Corporate Media giants: Newscorp, Disney, Viacom, Vivendi and AOL Time Warner control 90% of the media. This explains why hip-hop and rap music is so horrible, because it was all sponsored by corporations as a marketing gimmick. Gangsterism, sexuality and pornography are pushed on American youth as if rebellion is a good thing. But really it is mass submission to the corporate aristocracy of pure profit.
If anyone is to blame for the sexploitation of our children, it is the Reagan doctrine of "free market" corporatism.
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Posts: 3959 | Location: Santa Fe | Registered: 11 June 2003
Gnarlodious, who are the sex pushers in the country? Who are the ones so anxious to get youth engaged in sex - the sooner the better? Who profits from it? Yes, follow the money trail.
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Posts: 6275 | Location: Maine | Registered: 31 December 2005
In their 2001 production, The Merchants of Cool, PBS exposed the role of corporate greed in popular culture. The corporate marketing of "Canned Rebellion" to American youth is explored. Some of the most outspoken "rebels" are walking billboards for corporations whose only concern is profit. These bands and "popular kids" are paid to push sleaze, corruption and products.
The show explains how the perfect marriage of corporations and culture creates an army of stupid followers. "Culture spies" infiltrate youth hangouts and evaluate kids for the next big trend. "Message smugglers" are paid to populate chatrooms and forums to push bands and brands. "Cool kids" are hired to do "guerilla marketing" at parties and nightclubs. MTV, also called "Empty-V", which is owned by Viacom, sets the trend of a continuous stream of violence and sexuality.
This is colonialism, the displacement of culture for profit, just like The East India Company did. And like colonialism, these corporations consume "cool". Once the "cool" has become commercialized, it ceases to be cool. It is an example of cannibalism, the consumption of your own culture, using children as expendable commodities.
The Big Five media Giants have created two exemplary youth characters. The adolescent male is the "Mook", and the adolescent female is the "Midriff". The "Mook" is offensive, horny and a doesn't care what anyone thinks of him. The "Midriff" is self-centered, greedy and preoccupied with what everyone thinks of her. These two characters have been proven to generate profit.
This "Culture of Stupidity" is a cash cow for these corporations. The stupider they expect consumers to be, the more pop merchandise they will sell. Smart people are nerds, geeks and dorks. They have been denigrated by pop culture for at least since the MTV heyday. That coincides with the Reagan-era war against education. I wonder if it is a coincidence?
Since the 2001 production, PBS has become a Republican mouthpiece, so such an exposee would never be made today.
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Posts: 3959 | Location: Santa Fe | Registered: 11 June 2003
GG: If you knew the extent of Big Media's control of teen sexuality, I think you would disregard "sex education" as irrelevant. The real education is coming straight from corporate sponsors. What you are falling for is a distraction.
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Posts: 3959 | Location: Santa Fe | Registered: 11 June 2003
Money making organizations want our kids sexually active and engaged, the sooner the better.
Sure, I'll buy that. NAFTA and the SPP are working to give those "money making organizations" more power to do so.
Also, American politicians need to raise huge amounts of money to run for office - much of it coming from the very "money making organizations" in question. If the United States was to ban Union and Corporate Donations and limit personal donations to $5,000, would they not be less beholden to "money making organizations"?
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It only takes one experience to get an STD, It will be a suffering and affliction for the rest of their life.
It is true that one is playing Russian Roulette every time one partakes in such activity with a person whose history and present actions have not been fully disclosed. However, it is not true that all STDs are incurable.
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Youth are not prepared for sex, psychologically and physically. You can be certain those that propose sex for youth are out to exploit them, use them for profit and sexual gratification.
I think that the exploiters not only exploit youths - there are stories of children and even babies being exploited in such away. And, as far as I know, no one other than the exploiters themselves are advocating that.
Historically, the Filles du Roi were shipped off to New France as wives for the men there. Often the courtships lasted hours before the marriage took place. Physically ready for their marriages, sure, though not all of them were prepared for the life that awaited them. And not all of their husbands were kind.
Historically, people used to get married while still in their teens, though it is probably even a worse idea to do that now than to do it then.
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It will be an experience that can cause cancer, infertility and many many heart breaks of inability to being a suitable mate for marriage.
The state of one's "virtue" doesn't make one a good spouse or a bad spouse. I would like to think that most couples married for more than just sex - that they had shared interests and liked being together even when fully clothed.
Though, if you honestly feel that one should not have sex before marriage, then you should be fully in support of gay marriage. I presume that you are.
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If anyone is to blame for the sexploitation of our children, it is the Reagan doctrine of "free market" corporatism.
True enough. What is your opinion on those Baby Bratz dolls? They look like they are wearing detatctible penises hung by a string around their necks.
Posts: 771 | Location: Winnipeg | Registered: 06 September 2001
“I’m infected with what?” Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are spreading like wildfire. Doctors are calling it an epidemic.
One in every four teenagers will be infected with an STD before they graduate from high school.
Each day 33,000 Americans become infected with an STD.
22,000 of these new STD infections are contracted by 15 to 25-year-olds each day.
In l980, four million people were reported to have been infected with an STD.
By 1990 that number tripled with 12 million people reported to have a new STD infection that year.
Today, one in every five Americans between ages 15 and 55 is infected with at least one sexually transmitted disease.
The Centers for Disease Control reports there are now more than 50 known STDs ****. Some STDs can make you sterile. Some are incurable.
People with STDs often look healthy. Don’t be deceived. They can give you diseases that will make you miserable. Some of the diseases are itchy, burning, painful and even deadly. Most teenagers have been led to believe that a condom will protect them from STDs. The truth is much different. Having sex with condoms is like playing with fire. It doesn’t make it safe. Many people using condoms still get STDs. It’s an epidemic that’s infected more than 50 million Americans. Are you willing to risk a lifetime of good health for a few moments of pleasure?
Sources for STD statistics: The Alan Guttmacher Institute, New York, and the Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta
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STDs. Actual STD sores on skin.
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Posts: 6275 | Location: Maine | Registered: 31 December 2005
The _acceptable_ age at which an individual becomes sexually active is a function of the encompassing society. Physiologically, the human body is ready for sex with the onset of puberty; roughly 12-13. During different eras, it was not uncommon for 12-year-old girls to be wed and their marriage consummated immediately. Overall, most societies hold that permissible initiation to sex _should_ wait until the age of majority, when the child becomes classified as an adult. That too has varied over the years. It seems to me that equating adulthood as being 18 is coincidental to our public education system which kept young people in school until they were 18. Graduate from high school and graduate into adulthood at the same time.
The problem is that while pre-public school as the norm would have already had most children out in the work force at an early age, earning a wage, and essentially _forced_ to grow up quicker, now they are being insulated from the Real World. By jamming a whole LOT of post-puberty kids into close proximity with similar kids, all of them wallowing in a sea of raging hormones -- with little in the way of conditions that forces them to become mature enough to deal with the situation.
And what is it that the adults are giving these kids as a way to deal with those pent up sensations? Abstinence-only Sex Ed. And when the Surgeon General had the temerity to suggest it would be wise to freely dispense condoms, he got sacked.
So, we're not properly educating them about what the hell is happening to their bodies, and we're not taking measures to help them protect themselves during the fumbling learning process. Then to top it off, we keep dangling the phrase, "You should wait until you're an adult," in front of them.
What is it that nearly all young people want more than anything else? To be viewed as an adult instead of "just a kid". If being sexually active is meant for adults, than being sexually active will prove that I'm already there, right? Same holds true for smoking cigarettes; many start because "it makes me look older". Just telling them, "No it doesn't!" does not deter them from doing things that proves to _themselves_ that they have become more adult, that they seem "much more mature than their peers".
We have an epidemic of teenage STD's? What a surprise. Maybe we should focus our energies on dealing with the causes instead of just the symptoms. But it ain't gonna happen as long as The Powers That Be keep thinking that Abstinence-only initiatives are the best path to follow. Might as well close your eyes, cross your fingers, and wish with all your might.
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Posts: 937 | Location: San Rafael, CA, USA | Registered: 17 July 2007
Excellent point, Cap'n. Our food is saturated with the chemical precursors to sex hormones. Especially the kind of fast food targeted at teenagers.
Cholesterol, steroids and growth hormones are considered a necessary part of factory farming, and yet they are suspected to contribute to early maturing, mental illness and cancer.
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Posts: 3959 | Location: Santa Fe | Registered: 11 June 2003
But it ain't gonna happen as long as The Powers That Be keep thinking that Abstinence-only initiatives are the best path to follow.
Natural energies of the body are our allies and not our foe. Not mastering the use of natural energies is giving us an "EPiDEMiC" that will kill more than any war by nations.
Youth/teens want and need to hear about wholesome character formation for their safety and benefit as well as for the benefit of family, society, and nation. You make it sound as if natural energies are just for the use of sex. Not SO!
It will not cause any body harm to delay gratification and it can be taught. It will not cause any body harm to master the natural energies of the body. It never has and it never will. In fact it gives freedom. Now who doen't want 'FREEDOM'.
To be slaves to sexual passions is to be distracted from individual incredible human potential. It robs youth of childhood; it distracts from preparation for human vocation and increases selections of other risky escapades, and importantly it opens the door to adult predators. Break down the natural barriers and youth are prime targets. Bodies are not "objects," not for dangerous sexual exploitations. We're talking about the consequences of it and we fail youth by not living and teaching what is suitable to their nature.
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Posts: 6275 | Location: Maine | Registered: 31 December 2005
Your above post is taken word for word from another source.
One reason why people tend not to be virgins when they marry is because of the tendency to wait longer before marrying. If the wait is three years, one can wait three years, but if the wait is 15-16 years - that is twice as long as one has been alive.
If a person is comfortable in their own skin, they can open lines of communications with their potential sexual mate. Sometimes, when communication has been opened, one comes up with reasons why one would rather not have any kind of relationship with the other person. If one is not comfortable in their own skin, they are more apt to get into relationships that are not good for them. Communication is very important for a healthy relationship (as well as for weeding out unhealthy ones).
Being a virgin at the time of marriage does not guarantee a happy marriage. The 14 year old wife of Allen Glade Steed (who cannot be named by law) waited until marriage - though it was a marriage she never wanted. After Warren Jeffs coerced the woman into marrying her cousin, her cousin (Allen Glade Steed) coerced her into fulfilling her wifely duties:
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During the trial, the woman, now 21, testified that at her wedding in 2001, she cried when pressed by Jeffs to say "I do" and had to be coaxed to kiss her new husband.
She said the first month of marriage the couple didn't have sex. But then her husband told her it was "time for you to be a wife and do your duty."
Marriage, itself, is no guarantee of safety from exploitation:
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Ex-husband charged with rape after Jeffs guilty verdict
Prosecutors filed a rape charge Wednesday against the ex-husband whose marriage was at the centre of polygamous sect leader Warren's Jeff's trial.
The charge came a day after Jeffs was convicted of rape by accomplice.
Allen Glade Steed was 19 and his bride — also his first cousin — was 14 when they were married in 2001. Steed is accused of having sex with the girl against her will after the arranged marriage.
Have you seen the documentary "Bust Up in Bountiful" yet? It is about the friction between Winston Blackmore and Warren Jeffs. (have to actually click on the camera to get it):
Note that the lines of communication are not very open between Winston Blackmore and his many wives. For one, Winston Blackmore did not realise, until Hana Gartner told him, that two of his wives got legally married - to each other.
Posts: 771 | Location: Winnipeg | Registered: 06 September 2001
I first begin to notice something unusual when I realized I had no cousins.
My grandfather waited until he was 27 to marry my grandmother. He was very romantic and she was desperate to get out of the house. Unfortunately he waited 10 years to marry a prude. He was nonreligious and always wanted a wild sexual life. In the end got denied it thanks to the prevailing sex taboos. He spent the rest of his life regretting his adherence to strict morality. If only he had broken the rules, he would have a better chance of getting a better wife.
My grandmother was a small-minded mean-spirited religious woman. She refused to have sex with my grandfather, and forced them to sleep in separate rooms. She was a lifelong smoker and died of alcoholism. They only had two children, which was unusual for the times. You can see why this experience of my grandparents resulted in very liberal morals being taught to my uncle. His marriages were a total failure, and he lost all his children. That is why I had no cousins.
I loved my grandfather dearly, but the life he lived did not perpetuate himself. While he did want many children, his religious wife did not want to have sex. It seems his secular liberalism was doomed to extinction at the whim of his wife. I despised my grandmother, but she had a very similar religious daughter who had four children, one of which is me.
This family history is in perfect agreement with a larger social trend, which is that secular liberalism is a precursor to extinction. Virtually every society that has embraced secular liberalism has gone into a population decline within a few generations. The irony in this case is that my grandmother did not fulfill her religious duty, which was to have many children.
I am not trying to endorse a conservative religious position here, only that I have seen from the inside what happened. It seems that in the grand scheme of life, religion serves a purpose of reproduction. Take that away from people, and they simply stop reproducing. In that perspective, sex for mere pleasure does not guarantee continuation of the species.
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Posts: 3959 | Location: Santa Fe | Registered: 11 June 2003
What you're leaving out is "with birth control", otherwise we'd be kneedeep in bastards. (Wait! Isn't that the case already? It would explain a lot of the population in D.C. )
Seriously, I think that much of the slowing birthrate has to do with women finally being allowed to "fulfill themselves" and have a career instead of being a broodmare for some man. Instead of leaving home and getting married within a couple years, many women are getting and _using_ degrees in the professional world. Couple that with many couples deliberately postponing having children until they're "set", and having children for the first time is waiting until couples are in their late 20's/early thirties. That seriously cuts into the childbearing "window".
When the primary function of women is NOT to be mothers, childbearing noticeably slows down.
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Posts: 937 | Location: San Rafael, CA, USA | Registered: 17 July 2007
many couples deliberately postponing having children until they're "set", and having children for the first time is waiting until couples are in their late 20's/early thirties.
Actually, its mid thirties to mid fourties now.
Lower birthrates are the reason we don't have enough 20 year olds so Manitoba came up with a solution - approximately 11,000 immigrants moved to Manitoba in 2006. The biggest numbers from the Philippines, Germany, India, China and Korea.
If you have children in their mid to late teens, you should always keep track of which groups are immigrating to your area - it makes it easier to predict what your grandchildren will look like and who the new in-laws will be.
Posts: 771 | Location: Winnipeg | Registered: 06 September 2001
Originally posted by Gnarlodious: I first begin to notice something unusual when I realized I had no cousins.
My grandfather waited until he was 27 to marry my grandmother. He was very romantic and she was desperate to get out of the house. Unfortunately he waited 10 years to marry a prude. He was nonreligious and always wanted a wild sexual life. In the end got denied it thanks to the prevailing sex taboos. He spent the rest of his life regretting his adherence to strict morality. If only he had broken the rules, he would have a better chance of getting a better wife.
My grandmother was a small-minded mean-spirited religious woman. She refused to have sex with my grandfather, and forced them to sleep in separate rooms. She was a lifelong smoker and died of alcoholism. They only had two children, which was unusual for the times. You can see why this experience of my grandparents resulted in very liberal morals being taught to my uncle. His marriages were a total failure, and he lost all his children. That is why I had no cousins.
I loved my grandfather dearly, but the life he lived did not perpetuate himself. While he did want many children, his religious wife did not want to have sex. It seems his secular liberalism was doomed to extinction at the whim of his wife. I despised my grandmother, but she had a very similar religious daughter who had four children, one of which is me.
This family history is in perfect agreement with a larger social trend, which is that secular liberalism is a precursor to extinction. Virtually every society that has embraced secular liberalism has gone into a population decline within a few generations. The irony in this case is that my grandmother did not fulfill her religious duty, which was to have many children.
I am not trying to endorse a conservative religious position here, only that I have seen from the inside what happened. It seems that in the grand scheme of life, religion serves a purpose of reproduction. Take that away from people, and they simply stop reproducing. In that perspective, sex for mere pleasure does not guarantee continuation of the species.
Very fascinating history, Gnarl. Apparently this has effected your political leanings too.
But for the most part don't you think you find larger families amongst the more religious? Look at a typical Catholic family. I suppose your grandmother was a different extreme, because she didn't like to have sex, so she didn't.
I am curious how was the smoking and drinking justified with her faith?
Sorry, not trying to analyze your grandmother.
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