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Morality and Decency Conference Speakers
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Newsletter Updates
December 19, 2007
 Men are more likely to be addictive consumers of the huge pornographic industry, but today's college women are surprisingly permissive about pornography, according to a new study by Brigham Young University. It appears that these young women are permissive, not addictive, because they want to attract a young man. Keep in mind the basis for pornography's continued use - usually relates to problems with
intimacy opening the wide road to an addiction for pornography. Generally, addictive men exhibit an inability for intimacy, opposed to women's strength with intimacy in relationships. So this alone tells us that the foundation for pornographic acceptance depends on one's ability for intimacy. So then, we find the study of 813 students from six US Universities' accountings which didn't include BYU -- found that 86 percent of men and 31 percent of women viewed pornography the previous year. While men used pornography far more frequently - is an understatement - 48 percent used it at least once a week while women only 3 percent. Since pornography is a 13 Billion industry nationally, and 300 Billion worldwide, one quarter of all Internet clicks -- 68 million per day are for pornography. The US hosted 244 million adult web sites in 2006, according to the top ten Ogden review. Nevertheless, caring about our children's ability for proper intimacy in a marriage should also matter to us. |
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The sex-positive crowd is at it again. Energized by the news that the teen pregnancy rate went up three percent in 2005, they’ve gone to work blaming abstinence-only programs in schools. Abstinence programs are ineffective, they say—and they must be de-funded and replaced with contraception-based education. They might be jumping the gun, since 18- and 19-year-olds accounted for most of the increase. The pregnancy rate among girls age 10 to 17 continued to decline, as it has every year since 1991. Still, there is no doubt that abstinence opponents will use the increase to push its version of sex education in schools. Parents and educators should think carefully before taking their advice. As a researcher for Dr. Miriam Grossman, who is currently writing her second book about sexual health education, I’ve become familiar with the demands of the abstinence opponents. When it comes to sex ed, they have a very specific agenda in mind—and you can bet it won’t simply inform students about contraception. Instead, they’re itching to implement programs that actively encourage kids to have sex. Consider the CDC-funded “Programs that Work,” which were introduced to schools a few years ago. Rather than simply teaching students about condoms, these sex ed programs actually required ninth- and tenth-graders to go out and buy them. The curricula included school-sponsored field trips to family planning clinics and drugstores to compare condom brands—preferably with a partner. As the program advised, “Go to the store together. Buy lots of different brands and colors. Plan a special day when you can experiment.” I wonder if they got extra credit for actually using the condoms on school grounds. Abstinence opponents like to say that they’re not encouraging teens to have sex, they simply want them to be fully informed. Last year, a school-sponsored speaker at Boulder High School in Colorado promptly put an end to that myth. During a panel discussion on teen sexuality, the speaker explained to the students—some as young as 14—that he was “different” from their other teachers because “I am going to encourage you to have sex and encourage you to use drugs appropriately.” Abstinence isn't the problem |
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