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Jim, wrote:



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Jim, wrote:




http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7378833/

Extract
CHICAGO - About one in five ninth-graders report having had oral
sex and almost one-third say they intend to try it during the next
six months, a small study of teens at two California schools
reports.

The teenagers, whose average age was 14½, also say oral sex is
less risky, more common and more acceptable for their age group
than intercourse.

The researchers surveyed 580 ethnically diverse ninth-graders in
two California public high schools.

Girls and boys reported similar experiences and opinions about
oral sex, which surprised the study’s lead author, Bonnie
Halpern-Felsher, associate professor of pediatrics at University
of California San Francisco.




I grew up in a progressive small city in Connecticut where most
kids were sexually active no later than 13 or 14, and this was
about 45 years ago, when the sale of condoms was "forbidden" in
that state. Forbidden, but openly sold. In fact, at one of my first
afterschool jobs, I worked at a family drugstore near my highschool
where boatloads of condoms were sold every day, and sometimes by
me. In my naivete, I asked the pharmacist who owned the place if we
were going to be arrested for selling rubbers, and he just laughed.

My parents made sure I know the mechanics of sex when I was nine or
10 years old, and my father made damned sure that I knew that I was
NOT to get any young pregnant.

It's really sad so many Americans are so hung up on sex. Sex is
great fun, and, if you're careful, there need not be any negative
consequences.

Unless, of course, you are a repressed conservative.



My point was/is "I never has sex with that woman" is correct under
what appears to be the popular definition.


Oh, sure. Most of us got that when Clinton first brought it up. "Sex"
is intercourse. We knew that at age 13. Anything else was just
fooling around.


Unbelievable. No wonder more than half of marriages end in divorce.

"But honey...I was just fooling around when I was sticking my tongue
in her honey hole. It wasn't sex."





"Sex" is not the major reason for the failure of the majority of
marriages.


Sure it is. Sex with someone else.




Nope.




MAIN REASONS FOR DIVORCE 2004

- Extra-marital affair - 27%
- Family strains - 18%
- Abuse - 17%
- Mid-life crisis - 13%
- Addictions - 6%
- Workaholism - 6%


(Affairs aren't sex, though, right?)




You can do better than a "survey of UK matrimonial lawyers."

It was the quickest thing a google search returned. States don't ask the
"reason" for divorce when they collect divorce statistics, so the only
decent measure is statistics formed by polls taken of divorce attorneys.
Most of those show that infidility is the top reason for divorce.