Blow job generation
Over at The Moderate Voice, Joe Gandelman reports on a new survey that shows a marked increase in oral sex among teenagers. From The Seattle Times:
I don't know. I'm all for sexual expression, but is this a positive development?
More than half of American teens age 15 to 19 have engaged in oral sex, increasing to nearly 70 percent for those who are 18 and 19, according to the largest federal study of the nation's sexual practices.
The study also found that 11 percent of women age 18 to 44 reported having had at least one homosexual experience in their lifetime, up from 4 percent in the last study, conducted in 1992.
Taken together, the two findings suggest a possible shift in sexual practices, in which women and girls are using oral and gay sex "as a safer alternative than [vaginal] sex with men," said epidemiologist William Mosher of the National Center for Health Statistics, the study's lead author.
"If it is seen as a safer alternative, it is an interesting response to the campaigns to reduce teen pregnancy and to reduce sexually transmitted diseases and HIV," he said.
The study, however, found that only 9 percent of the teens reported using condoms during oral sex. Studies have shown that gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes and the human papillomavirus can all be transmitted in this manner.
I don't know. I'm all for sexual expression, but is this a positive development?
posted by Michael J.W. Stickings at
11:17 PM
2 Comments:
Sounds like an extension of the fast food, consumer-based, isolated, selfish approach to it all. Quick lovin' - no closeness. All about boys mind you - can't be much erotic going on for the poor girls.
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Gary, at 3:16 AM
I don't agree. I recall taking a course in college with the famous Zella Luria about human sexuality, and one of the points she made in class was that sex, too, has trends. One of the best studied of which (and this was the early 1990's) was the shift in the usual sexual order in which a couple would engage had been, until the 1980's: kissing, petting, intercourse, oral sex. But then a paradigm shift occurred (this is all U.S. data) around the era of HIV and suddenly, the menu changed to oral sex prior to intercourse. I have long thought this also had to do with a different level of body-comfort and de-stigmatisation of oral sexual contact.
as an aside, I don't think the increased incidence of lesbian action is about the boys, Gary...
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