Monday, December 17, 2007

Selling Preteen Sex As A Good Thing?

Could preteen sex actually be a good thing? In what’s being billed as a blow to conventional wisdom, recent news stories have heralded two studies that appear to assert positive benefits to early sexual experience. The Washington Post reported results of an Ohio State University study finding that “youngsters who have consensual sex in their early-teen or even preteen years are, if anything, less likely to engage in delinquent behavior later on.” Even more recently, ABC News ran a piece with a headline trumpeting “Losing Virginity Later Linked to Sexual Problems,” and a sub-head adding, “Those Who Have Sex Later, Particularly Men, Seem to Experience More Sexual Dysfunction.”...

Hmm. The mainstream media and higher education arraigning themselves against "conventional wisdom" as it relates to sex? What a novelty.

But before you start handing out the condoms to the kiddies, please check out Carol Platt Liebau's response to this nonsense.