Are you people seriously telling me with a straight face

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

That there is more sexual pressure on teens now?

Than there was in the 90's?

Than there was in the 80's?

Than there was in the 70's?

Than there was in the 60's?

Than there was in the 50's?

Than there was in the 1800's?

Than any other time in history?

If you are, tell me what is causing this great insurmountable increase in sexual pressure.

 

[a lit regular]

Todd, lay off the booze and grass, and put down the Marie Claire or Redbook or whatever you're reading, and chill a bit.

What the fuck do YOU think the answers to these obnoxious questions you are asking, are?

 

[alexandraaah]

In my limited experience, there is. When I was 11-14, I wouldn't have considered doing anything like what many kids are doing today. This is not universal, just my experience as an adolescent and those adolescents I subsequently have worked with.

 

[pondman]

That there is more sexual pressure on teens now?

Than there was in the 90's?

Than there was in the 80's?

Than there was in the 70's?

Than there was in the 60's?

Than there was in the 50's?

Than there was in the 1800's?

Than any other time in history?

If you are, tell me what is causing this great insurmountable increase in sexual pressure.

it must be the water

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

what is causing this great insurmountable increase in sexual pressure?

That "Cruel Intentions 2" movie.

 

[Rubyfruit]

Teens want to fuck. They probably always have and always will.

Todd, you must know that your views on abstinence are not generally held by most of the population at large.

 

[april-wine]

Teens want to fuck. They probably always have and always will.

Todd, you must know that your views on abstinence are not generally held by most of the population at large.

And damnnnnnnnn with avs like that who can blame em.......

 

[TygerEyez]

*straight faced* Yes. Yes, we are.

 

[angel's pet]

Sex is everywhere (which I enjoy) and cannot be avoided. Movies, TV, ads, radio... all bombarding us with promises of love and acceptance via sex. I grew up in the age of separate beds for married couples on TV. Now you get to see co-workers in the bathroom together... More pressure? I know I want sex more now...
Hey you! Come here...

 

[Rubyfruit]

And damnnnnnnnn with avs like that who can blame em.......

We should post consecutively more often. I love the look of your lips right next to my nipple.

 

[april-wine]

We should post consecutively more often. I love the look of your lips right next to my nipple.

Hmmmmm a little closer........

 

[J.B.]

OK, I agree that children now due have more information on hand & that their bodies are developing more rapidly, But more pressure? No don’t think so… pressure is something given by others so your knowledge on the subject isn’t an issue.

JB
Stepping off of my soap box now…
you know I love ya' Todd!

 

[vylette]

i dont know if more sexual pressure are necessarily the right words...but times in general have changed...the media has a huge influence on our society and to say that is easily remedied by turning off the tv or computer is oversimplifying the problem...it is completely impossible to avoid exposure which sadly in fact desensitizes us.... unless you chose to live on a mountain top your child is going to be exposed to it....either thru school, billlboards of "hot chicks" drinking beer...etc...it is everywhere...and i dont think now that it has been let out it is going back out in...it is the preverbally "pandora's box"...

that being said you have to adapt to your surroundings...children unfortunately have single parents now-a-days due to divorce, they also find themselves home alone more because both parents work to pay bills...to which you may say, well live in a smaller house so at that point do you opt to live in an unsafe neighborhood....

i know for me i am fortunate enough to live in a nice area and do not have to work...but that isnt always the case...nor does it mean if i have it today i will necessarily have it tomorrow...with our economy, cutbacks are a way of life...

with all that being said and the fact i try to be the best mother possible that does not prevent my child from being exposed to sex by a friend at school, something on tv or even the internet...the problems in the 50's were having a baby out of wedlock...the problem nowadays is contracting hiv and dying...just not quite the same...just as i will educate my child about sex i will also educate him about drugs...crack was not around in the 50's and i want him to know the dangers of taking it, just like i want him to know the dangers involved with sex...

maybe it isnt necessarily more pressure to have sex but definitely the consequences of having unprotected sex are certainly more severe...

i am so sorry i have rambled on ...i just feel educating our youth is so important...maybe because i taught school for 7 years or maybe just because i love my child and dont want anything to happen to him because he didnt have all the information he possibly could...

 

[Monazwx]

Vyette is right, there's more pressure now becuase of the media, internet, etc. I mean everyone's talking about it and kids are curious.

Also, it's easier to get things like condoms, birth control pills, etc.

I'm not saying it's right, but that's the way it is.

 

[koalabear]

Just more opportunities for sex now, most kids are latchkey kids, since money became the most important thing and both parents work now.

 

[Ishmael]

???????????????

I don't know what it is, but there is something going on out there and it isn't good.

Teen pregnancy way up, STD's among teens up, increasing reports of sexual molestation made in grade school, greater incidences of incest.

What's to blame??? Latch-key kids, sex education, lack of parental guidance, peer pressure, lack of accountability, acceptance of sex at an early age as normal???? Who knows?

As Alex, a professional in the field, has pointed out, it's increasing.

Personally I hold the parents responsible. Directly responsible. It is the parents, by having the child to begin with, that are directly responsible for the raising of that child to be a responsible member of society. For the teaching of the moral groundings that differintiate a human from an animal. After all, we are charged with raising 'human beings' here. And it is the ability of a human to overcome and supress their baser instincts that differintiate us from the animals.

But that's just my opinion.

Ishmael

 

[Thumper]

A conflagration

The fire is still the same.

It's just now we have surrounded it with high octane.

 

[Mellon Collie]

Also, it's easier to get things like condoms, birth control pills, etc.

I think the availability of these things are the result of increased activity, not the cause.

And I don't know if there is necessarily more pressure for teens to have sex now than there ever was before, I mean I wasn't even alive in the 70's. But I think the population as a whole seems to have become much more casual with the idea of their kids screwing other kids.

 

[Thumper]

Actually

The last figures I heard indicated that teen pregnancy was in decline.

As far as incest being on the rise that may also be (like rape) due to the fact that it is OK now to report it. In days gone by such things were kept under wraps. Wouldn't want the neighbors to find out ferchrissakes! I know of a few women who claim to have been raped...they weren't comfortable with reporting it or didn't want the hassle.

 

[kotori]

That there is more sexual pressure on teens now?

Than any other time in history?

No. When the average human life span was thirty-something, I'm sure there was a lot of pressure to reproduce as soon as an individual was sexually mature. But that would include some sort of concept of evolution, which I doubt you're familiar with

If you are, tell me what is causing this great insurmountable increase in sexual pressure.

If I are what? Please keep all questions in the form of a question.

If I think there is less pressure not to have sex these days, I would say "yes." This is not a value judgement. Once again, however, I will mention that I was born a bastard, and adopted. My mother was 18, ferchrissake--not exactly a child. In another society and time and place, she might have been able to keep me.

 

[naudiz]

My face is only 44% straight.

That is all.