mysterygal
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Exactly.... The problem is that their looking for a different kind of attention than what their getting from the boys
G. Fink-Nottle said:There is far too much sex - and not enough romance. This is true in terms of the media as well as real life.
Baron Kurtz said:The yahoo article mentions that America has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates of any industrialised country. But it ignores the notion that America also has one of the most restrictive (repressive?), in terms of sex, media regulatory bodies of the industrialised countries
AtomicBlonde said:My parents ... opted me out of the sex ed courses at school when I was young using the "I'll teach her that at home" excuse ... [yet] neither one of [my parents] ever bothered to tell me about the birds and the bees! ... don't opt your kids out with the intention of telling them what they need to know and then chicken out and leave them getting information from other kids their age
-Jess
Baron Kurtz said:Scotrace, I'd seen that study. It's interesting. So it seems females are developing faster these days. Anyone know why?
Marc Chevalier said:A study in Chile concluded that hormones fed to chickens and other animals (to make them grow faster) are affecting young girls who eat meat. Supposedly, ingesting these hormones makes girls develop faster.
mysterygal said:Hormones that are in milk and meats are being linked to girls developing earlier
mysterygal said:Hormones that are in milk and meats are being linked to girls developing earlier
Marc Chevalier said:I think that the U.S. has a talent for making sex seem dirty, and selling it as such. If sexuality were shown to be as natural as it really is, the "titillation" aspect so essential to selling shampoo, jeans, fashion magazines, and "Girls Gone Wild" videos would all but disappear. We have TV shows on vaginal cosmetic surgery, but we aren't allowed to see Janet Jackson's metallic pastie. It's a show of false modesty that makes people even more obsessed with sex than they would otherwise be. And why? To sell more and more and more ...
**********Brad Bowers said:A similar topic is alcohol. Underage drinking seems to be rampant in America, and is glorified by those that are underage. But in societies, such as in Europe, where drinking is a part of the culture from an early age, is it less of a problem? Brad