After watching a Dr. Phil show about teen girls having oral sex in school I was interested to find why there are no inhibitions about being sexually active.
According to the USA Today, "Kids who said they watched more sex-oriented programs at the beginning of the year were more likely than others their age to become sexually active during the next year." Rebecca Collins of RAND Corp , in a report on Pediatrics online journal, says the more sexually oriented scenes they saw, the more likely they were to become sexually active.
Why are TV programs starring teens, and about teens, so sexually charged? There are several TV shows that involve sexually active teens, here are a few: The Secret Life of the American Teenager, One Tree Hill, Degrasssi: The Next Generation, The O.C., and Gossip Girls. Very seldom does the media show the consequences of sexual activity like pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases in the vagina, the anal area, and the mouth.
Sharlene Azam has written a book and a documentary film titled Oral Sex is the New Goodnight Kiss. She appeared in an interview on Good Morning America in June 2009 and said the youngest girl she interviewed was 11! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj8p94a81ZE
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I completely agree I recently did a post on an article written about the documentary, "Oral Sex is the New Goodnight Kiss".I would like to know who these girls are having oral sex with. The boys are not mentioned. I do assume the teenage girls are having oral sex with teenage boys, so why aren't they talked about in the documentry ? Is this acceptable for the teenage boys ? Is it the norm ?
ReplyDeleteYou know what, the boys aren't even mentioned. Of course, their reputations aren't ruined by their actions. My grandaughter is in Old Mill and she says this goes on everywhere, in the bathrooms, the stair wells, any place they can be alone, and it doesn't matter if other kids see them! She also said having sex circles at dances is also well known. Things have changed since I went to school, and I think this is actually sad. There is no self respect anymore.
ReplyDeleteYou are so right, and that is sad. Teenagers these days to not value their own bodies. What I think has happened is that many teenagers do not think oral sex is actually sex. In a teenage boys head they actually think sex only happens if a condom is needed, otherwise it is not consider sex. When I was in High School this was not happening either. I think this goes back to being the man's fault(just kidding). President Clinton went on national televsion saying what the white house intern was doing was not sex.
ReplyDeleteYes’ I agree. What happened to the old love and romance of waiting and of decency? The definition of sex HAS changed, and if it has gone this far, it will only get ‘worse.’ When my mom went to school 40ish years ago, a pregnant girl was obscene and usually disappeared. Nowadays high school’s have nurseries! I’m not saying this is a bad thing, because it is great that girls can still go to school and get their GED instead of dropping out because no one could watch their baby. Apart from that, sex has become so popular among teens and oral sex isn’t even considered sex nowadays, yet the increase of STD’s and pregnancy rates have ski rocked. Shouldn’t teens know more about protection and prevention since it’s become so common?
ReplyDeleteI think a big problem is that there isn't open communication between parents and children. Even more, sex education in our public schools only teach about procreative sex or teach a abstinence-only curriculum.
ReplyDeleteBecause kids are left to learn about sex basically on their own, they don't get the proper knowledge on how to protect themselves. And when they're taught about sex, they usually only taught about hetero-normative sex (meaning usually just vaginal intercourse), so it makes sense that kids may not think of oral sex as being "sex".
And, is that true, Barb? I went to Old Mill two years ago and I guess I just have a hard time believing that sex is that prevalent in our (my!) schools.