Teens have always been sexual creatures by the age of 14 or so. It’s just getting harder to suppress their natural behavior or keep it all private.

And no, women don’t menstruate earlier than they used to. They used to be married off at 12 and have 4-5 kids by 20, remember?

Of course, some have suggested it has to do with a greater ingestion of hormones in the food we eat, which is certainly possible.

Utter BS brought to you by the same idiots that peddle global warming.

Who needs skills or a personality when you can flash your goodies and the world drops at your feet?

When all of these proto-skanks are lonely bitter adults, who will they blame then?

Hello, N.O.W. where are you? Or is this selling out of self respect supposed to be “liberating” on some level I don’t understand?

I see this, too, at my church. Some young women have no respect for themselves and so desperately long for approval from the boys or their peers. They need the life changing love of Christ. And besides, we are representing Christ and should all do so with fear(reverential awe) and humility.

No, but we need to be very careful in how we present ourselves.

The youth minister at my church emphasizes over and over again to the teenage girls – cover up. But he has an uphill fight on his hands.

You enable the infantile with high-tech, you’ll get high-tech infantilism.

(SEE: Islam.)

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Love the wonky eye.

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GRAGH!!!

mininovaaa..

landlines on May 5, 2008 at 5:27 PM

I must disagree with your premise of technology as “only a tool.” Very few communication scholars (myself included) consider technology neutral, because any technology has a nature to it. The late Neil Postman pointed out that just as smoke signals would be no use for a lengthy dissertation about weather trends, television is not useful for lengthy discussions about serious topics. (I highly recommend his books, by the way). There is a mountain of research about the influence of various media on youngsters. To be sure, the family is extremely important in influencing the mental health of their children, but it is by no means the only, or even primary, influence in a sex-and-violence-drenched mediated culture.

If there is a problem with a kid, it started way before the technology facilitated it. If the technology is removed, the problem will still be there.

Unfortunately, they dilute their moral message by having this episode sponsored by Grand Theft Auto IV.

You mean more than what they do by having 8-year-old swear on a regular basis?

It’s not a show for children, and GTA IV is not a game for children. It’s a completely different issue.

tom on May 5, 2008 at 3:52 PM

Whatever the reason, it can be very tragic.

I’m no expert, but I understand from a nurse that it may be a function of bodyweight, or at least correlate to it.

tom on May 5, 2008 at 3:49 PM

That can be true. A friend of mine from high school rarely had a period because she had no body fat. I don’t think she was anorexic, but she was seriously underweight.

Ahem.

I blame MTV.

Only slightly /sarc

The culture’s just being consistent. Being good is bad; being bad is good. Positing a moral law is evil, except for the moral law that states that there is none.

If the best, most resonant response to our culture is a few pot-shots (for laughs) from the peanut gallery (whose behavior is equally party to the same decline), then you can expect it to continue. Pretty soon, if you don’t bring up your child with this poisonous, self-indulgent relativism, then you’ll be prosecuted.

Oh wait…

I don’t think it’s necessary to teach girls that boys can essentially be pigs. That’s a message as tried and true as the message being sent that it’s OK for teens to be promiscuous.
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Esthier on May 5, 2008 at 3:17 PM

You would certainly think so. I don’t know why girls are so interested in living down to boy’s expectations, given that they don’t have the highest opinion of them. Maybe they’re just not thinking things all the way through?

Very true. Girls are having their periods at much younger ages than decades ago.

dedalus on May 5, 2008 at 3:06 PM

Really? Evolution? Maturing faster due to better nutrition? Interesting… is it worldwide? or mainly in the West?

Romeo13 on May 5, 2008 at 3:19 PM

I’m no expert, but I understand from a nurse that it may be a function of bodyweight, or at least correlate to it. Of course, some have suggested it has to do with a greater ingestion of hormones in the food we eat, which is certainly possible.

Since when? One more reason why I think South Park sucks.

Ecomomic downturn??? Can’t see it affecting sex…

Romeo13 on May 5, 2008 at 3:32 PM

I’m with you on that one. It’s the cheapest thing you can do if you already have a partner. It might make it more difficult for you to get one, maybe.

Some attribute it to diet

dedalus on May 5, 2008 at 3:36 PM

I’ve heard that explanation for some time. A friend claims it has to do with the chemicals they give cows. She was a vegan up until just a few years ago and is still a vegetarian, and she didn’t start her period until at least a year or two later than most girls our age.

Really? Evolution? Maturing faster due to better nutrition? Interesting… is it worldwide? or mainly in the West?

Romeo13 on May 5, 2008 at 3:19 PM

There is better data for the United States than worldwide. Some attribute it to diet, increased weight, possibly chemicals. Ages also vary by ethnicity.

Using her cell phone, a high school girl sends nude photos of herself to boyfriends that wind up printed and distributed in the boys’ locker room at Hudson (Wis.) High School. Two boys accused of doing it are charged with defaming her character. The girl tells police she is devastated.

Wisconsin police got it half-right. They should also be bringing charges against the girl for taking and distributing sexually explicit photos of a minor. An ounce of deterrence, and problem solved.

JMHO – have a little faith in the fairer sex. It doesn’t take long for most women to figure out they can get a lot farther by holding something back. The sexual revolution is burning itself out, and I think we’ll see a counter-culture of modesty and class emerge from the ashes. Again, problem solved.

My husband and i did without many comforts and conveniences so that i could be a stay-at-home mom until we got your youngest in school, and the job i took then had hours that ensured my kids weren’t “latch-keyers”.

I lay many of today’s cultural ills solidly at the door of the advent of feminism.

I never needed to be a feminist or be pressured by feminists to know what was right for my children…and what was right for my children was what was right for me.

They didn’t commit defamation of character, but rather definition of character.