Happy Holidays!
Boy, this is really going to depress Ace:
95 percent of Americans had premarital sex
More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study. The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past.
“This is reality-check research,” said the study’s author, Lawrence Finer. “Premarital sex is normal behavior for the vast majority of Americans, and has been for decades.”
Well, speaking for myself, I haven’t had premarital sex EVEN ONCE since I got married.
But what the hell is CNN thinking, posting this story right before the holidays, when that 5% who aren’t enjoying premarital sex aren’t getting any under their tiny, sad tree, or in their lonely stocking? Insensitive bastards, rubbing it in like that.
You cannot possibly be serious.
In related news, Tara Conner was told by Scrooge McDuck Donald Trump that she’s not fired, but has to enter rehab. Gawker asks the question that’s on everybody’s mind: Are All Girls Named Tara Drunks?
I know it’s a long-shot, but if you’re named Tara and you’re NOT a drunk, please notify us in the comments.
UPDATE:
Know someone named Tara? Set Ace up with her, please.
I’m afraid they probably are getting it in their lonely stocking.
Bwahahaha, furriskey!
It’s the premarital sex that really ups your weekly average.
Although, I have heard post-marital sex highly spoken of in that regard, too.
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Random Lauren Bacall sighting…
“Hey fellas! Hey fellas!”
I dated a girl one time named Tara that wasn’t a drunk. A nymphomaniac yes and boy howdy was she bat-shit crazy.
Of course, the odds show if you’re named Tara and semi-famous you’re gonna be a pro-sex drunk.
The idea that Donald Trump should be in a position to influence anyone’s future is so repulsive as to depress me beyond reach of Prozac or other fine drugs.
I’m sure I don’t have to remind you that’s why there’s alcohol, furriskey
Then, the “meat” of the story: ?(no pun intended, unless you’re really amused by it)
Doesn’t this “research project” play out to be just another attack at social conservatism? There was a time when startling high numbers of teens being sexually active would be a call to action to try and curtail such activity, not to tell them, “go on, enjoy yourselves, but be careful.”
And the article seems to make much of funding for “abstinance only” education, but I am a lot more concerned with funding for “research” of this sort. Aren’t there some messages that need to be projected even if conventional wisdom claims they’re being ignored?
Are they including “pleasuring ones self” as pre-marital sex? What about animals? Knotholes?
Are ya positiv-i-ly, absolut-i-ly?
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Good questions, Sticky. Why don’t you get in touch with Mr. Bo . . . Finer and ask?
Yes, all girls named Tara are drunks. You will get comments to the contrary. Those are lies.
Premarital sex? Yep, nearly all have done it. But the statistic may not mean as much as touted.
For several centuries the understanding was that the Engagement was the big step. And it meant marriage. Calling an Engagement off was quite a serious move.
And as the marriage date approached sexual activity was winked at. Not universally of course – but more often than was acknowledged.
So premartial sex was not sexual freedom.
Today there is much more premartial sex and the sex is without committment.
The study seems carefully constructed to get the numbers as high as possible. And to slam abstinence. But the numbers are probably technically correct.
Wow, I actually understood that. One of my favorite albums.
“What Baby wants, Baby gets!”
— Humphrey Bogart
Not completely OT: that Lauren Bacall; was she a tad on the sultry side, or what?
Yeah, I’ve had the bass line from “Ghetto Defendant” running through my head all day, and didn’t realize why until I read through this thread again just now.
Social conservatism seems to have this obsession with abstinence-until-marriage just as social liberalism has this obsession with same-sex marriage.
Promoting abstinence in public schools is as illogical and nonsensical as promoting homosexuality.
When I was in high school about eleven years ago, abstinence from sex was touted as an innocent, alternate lifestyle, just like homosexuality. These days, it seems abstinence advocates are claiming the pretense of some moral high ground.