Oral sex as common as kissing

[Zeb_Carter]

Teens: Oral Sex and Casual Prostitution No Biggie
Teens in Documentary Say Oral Sex 'Not That Big of a Deal' and Get Paid for Sexual Favors

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"If you talk to teens [about oral sex] they'll tell you it's not a big deal," Azam said. "In fact, they don't consider it sex. They don't consider a lot of things sex."

Evidence of this casual attitude may be seen in the fact that more than half of all teens 15 to 19 years old have engaged in oral sex, according to a comprehensive 2005 study by the Centers for Disease Control's National Center for Health Statistics.

'Oral Sex Is the New Goodnight Kiss'

In the documentary, "Oral Sex Is the New Goodnight Kiss," girls as young as 11 years old talk about having sex, going to sex parties and -- in some extreme situations -- crossing into prostitution by exchanging sexual favors for money, clothes or even homework and then still arriving home in time for dinner with the family.

"Five minutes and I got $100," one girl said. "If I'm going to sleep with them, anyway, because they're good-looking, might as well get paid for it, right?"

Another girl talked about being offered $20 to take off her shirt or $100 to do a striptease on a table at a party.

The girls are almost always from good homes, but their parents are completely unaware, Azam said.

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Umm...WOW!

 

[kromen]

In my day, under the shirt and over the bra was considered sex. I can't even remember what base oral sex was considered, but it might as well been an in the park home run. Has the nuclear family detonated? Are we too busy twittering to realize that the young ones are running amok?

 

[JackLuis]

In my day, under the shirt and over the bra was considered sex. I can't even remember what base oral sex was considered, but it might as well been an in the park home run. Has the nuclear family detonated? Are we too busy twittering to realize that the young ones are running amok?

In a word, Yes.

 

[kromen]

In a word, Yes.

The only pitter patter of tiny feet in my abode belongs to a canine and I got her spayed.

 

[Verdad]

To me this sounds like the obligatory annual edition of outrage with "youth today." For how many generations now has oral sex been de rigueur? It certainly was when I was a teen, yet it was by no means equal to a kiss. I suspect it's not now, either. How long has it been since the movie Kids, too? While it depicted behavior of some teens accurately, it's delusional to watch it thinking, "This is how it is today."

Norms do change, but not quite to the point of utter unrecognizability. Buying into this story is kind of like buying that somewhere in Europe, that distant and exotic place, people go to work without clothes.

 

[Lisa Summers]

I hope this doesn't put porno, er, erotica writers out of business.

 

[kairotic]

To me this sounds like the obligatory annual edition of outrage with "youth today." For how many generations now has oral sex been de rigueur? It certainly was when I was a teen, yet it was by no means equal to a kiss. I suspect it's not now, either. How long has it been since the movie Kids, too? While it depicted behavior of some teens accurately, it's delusional to watch it thinking, "This is how it is today."

Norms do change, but not quite to the point of utter unrecognizability. Buying into this story is kind of like buying that somewhere in Europe, that distant and exotic place, people go to work without clothes.

That's a bright perspective.

I'm not sure where my sense of horror comes into play when I read that. Nevermind the argument about how accurate the numbers are -- what gets me is my near-instant shock. I've imagined a world where everyone shrugs off sexual Puritanism, but it's something else to imagine the revolution being led by those too young to vote (or drive).

I think that's why stories like this get the kind of traction they do. Half of it is finger-wagging "kids these days" revulsion, but I think a lot of folks want a world with fewer hangups. Maybe what stings people is the idea of that world being built, accidentally, by the Facebook generation.

 

[WRJames]

It seems like the age for sexual activity is going down over time -- although maybe it is just our perception. The sexual revolution of the sixties wasn't so much that teens were having sex but that "nice" (or formerly nice?) girls were. Formerly respectable, nicely brought girls and boy were going off to college and screwing. Then they started to do it in high school -- then middle school. Of course, even back in the dark days of the fifties there were girls that were fucking in sixth grade -- but they were not respectable, or respected.

What's different now is that the girls in the confirmation class are probably giving their boyfriends blow jobs. Damn!

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I'm glad my teens are all grown up now, married and have kids of their own. But now I have to worry about my granddaughters when they get to that age.

Having read stories about rainbow parties and the meaning behind the color of rubber band you wear on you wrist and now this article...you bet I'm worried about what my granddaughters will be learning from their peers.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I'm thinking I was born a couple decades early...

 

[bronzeage]

I'm thinking I was born a couple decades early...

I'm thinking nothing much has changed, especially this part:

"The girls are almost always from good homes, but their parents are completely unaware"

 

[Stella_Omega]

I'm thinking O Tempora O Mores.

And I'm thinking that it's not very amazing what kids will say to a camera, when they have been raised on Reality TV.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I'm thinking nothing much has changed, especially this part:

"The girls are almost always from good homes, but their parents are completely unaware"

So you're saying I would have missed out either way? Damn

 

[WRJames]

I'm glad my teens are all grown up now, married and have kids of their own. But now I have to worry about my granddaughters when they get to that age.

Having read stories about rainbow parties and the meaning behind the color of rubber band you wear on you wrist and now this article...you bet I'm worried about what my granddaughters will be learning from their peers.

One thing I never remember seeing on my cock was lipstick. Anyone have a lipstick experience?

 

[JamesSD]

To me this sounds like the obligatory annual edition of outrage with "youth today." For how many generations now has oral sex been de rigueur? It certainly was when I was a teen, yet it was by no means equal to a kiss. I suspect it's not now, either. How long has it been since the movie Kids, too? While it depicted behavior of some teens accurately, it's delusional to watch it thinking, "This is how it is today."

Norms do change, but not quite to the point of utter unrecognizability. Buying into this story is kind of like buying that somewhere in Europe, that distant and exotic place, people go to work without clothes.

Verdad wins the thread!

It's pretty typical media fearmongering that happens every so often. Clearly society is no longer shocked simply by teens having oral sex, so they're upping the ante with prostitution and heavy promiscuity.

There is a grain of truth that todays teens treat Oral sex much more casually than we did 10-15 years ago, and my generation did than those before us. Teens aren't dumb, and they walk away from abstinence only education not thinking "I shouldn't have sex" but "I shouldn't have intercourse". And they're right that it's safer both for STDs and pregnancy and for most people carries lower emotional involvement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deviancy_amplification_spiral

 

[JamesSD]

I'm glad my teens are all grown up now, married and have kids of their own. But now I have to worry about my granddaughters when they get to that age.

Having read stories about rainbow parties and the meaning behind the color of rubber band you wear on you wrist and now this article...you bet I'm worried about what my granddaughters will be learning from their peers.

I'm confused, are you being sarcastic here?

Rainbow parties have pretty much been established as a myth perpetuated by an author to sell books. Teens weren't posting anonymously about them on online message boards.

The colored wrist band thing is also almost certainly an urban legend propogated by the scare-media.

 

[Carnevil9]

Thank you, Bill Clinton!