Is it not time we seriously think about our liberal attitudes towards sex?

Question

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teenagers often suffer emotional consequences from having sex, even when it's "only" oral sex, a study published Monday suggests.




Researchers at the University of California San Francisco found that up to one-half of the sexually active teenagers in their study said they'd ever felt "used," guilty or regretful after having sex.

Though such feelings were less common among teens who'd only had oral sex, about one-third reported some type of negative consequence.

Dr. Sonya S. Brady and Bonnie L. Halpern-Felsher report the findings in the journal Pediatrics.

The study, according to the researchers, suggests that parents should be sure to talk with their kids about the potential negative effects of having oral sex, not only intercourse.

"When parents and teens talk about the consequences of having 'sex,' they may not take the time to define what sex is," Brady and Halpern-Felsher noted in comments to Reuters Health.

The point of the article is also that young people are not emotionally, mentally nor physically equipped to handle sex. It is NOT JUST a biological function but carries with it all sorts of responsibilities AND feelings. THAT is why it has previously been relegated as appropriate only for the more mature.

Answer 1

Although I am far from perfect. I don't believe that being sexually liberated has helped anyone in fact being irresponsible with sex has cost many people their futures and lives. The Romans where very sexually open and it wasn't good for their cultural. I believe that their is only one kind of good lasting sexual relationship that's between to people that care deeply for one and other. Is that hard to find you bet that's why we should take our time and make sure we are with the right person. Keep it in your pants, or keep your pants on.

Answer 2

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1692307,00.html
http://joshuakane.diaryland.com/older.html
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n19_v50/ai_21191257

There is no going back on the sexual revolution. But, as ordinary decent Americans have always known, there is no living with it either. The saddest thing, to the outside observer, is the seeming inability of American liberals to oppose the source of decay-which is the view of sex that has held them in thrall. Whether a Kinseyite or Freudian, whether a disciple of Marcuse or a follower of Erich Fromm, whether steeped in the counterculture of the Sixties or newly recruited to the cause of gay liberation, the American liberal sees sex in just the way that has led to the current confusion: as a force that must be "liberated," and which harms us when "repressed." By seeing sex in that way, the liberal changes its nature.

Answer 3

I believe we need to start talking sex more openly and not acting like it is some horrible thing to do. Teens may feel bad after having sex because it's like they broke some kind of taboo.