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Post by John E on Dec 20, 2011 22:14:04 GMT -5
I get the newsletter for the UCLA Law Williams Institute for LGBT law in my work email. Not sure how that happened, but I don't mind, because I get to see summaries of all their studies.
I got one this afternoon that said that from 2001 to 2006, there was a significant drop in heterosexual sexual activity among 17 year old girls, while homosexual activity more than doubled. At the same time, teen pregnancies are down. No surprise there.
So, yeah.
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Post by Art Vandelay on Dec 20, 2011 22:20:18 GMT -5
In other news, tennis elbow in teen males has more that quintupled.
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Post by foolishwisdom on Dec 20, 2011 22:28:08 GMT -5
More sin, less babies, oh the horror!!
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Post by Damen on Dec 20, 2011 22:28:40 GMT -5
I get the newsletter for the UCLA Law Williams Institute for LGBT law in my work email. Not sure how that happened, but I don't mind, because I get to see summaries of all their studies. I got one this afternoon that said that from 2001 to 2006, there was a significant drop in heterosexual sexual activity among 17 year old girls, while homosexual activity more than doubled. At the same time, teen pregnancies are down. No surprise there. So, yeah.  |
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Post by Wykked Wytch on Dec 20, 2011 22:35:35 GMT -5
Moar lesbian teens?
I don't see a problem with this.
Also the flaw with the study is not that lesbians are multiplying (by asexual reproduction, of course), but that being lesbian is much more accepted in today's society than it was for most of the century. Back in the day, if you admitted to being homosexual, you would be stigmatized, fired from your job, and possibly forced to attend "therapies" meant to torture the ghey out of you.
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Post by Shano on Dec 20, 2011 22:45:10 GMT -5
It's all about reporting bias.
For example there was an internal study among the students of my former university. Females reported 17%!!!! lesbian encounters. Males reported 1.3%. It indeed is very much about perception of acceptance.
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Post by lexikon on Dec 20, 2011 22:55:21 GMT -5
^Lesbians are not as discriminated or bashed as Gay men, so this isn't too surprising, although I also read an article that stated women were more flexible in their orientation.
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Post by Vene on Dec 20, 2011 23:56:09 GMT -5
It's all about reporting bias. For example there was an internal study among the students of my former university. Females reported 17%!!!! lesbian encounters. Males reported 1.3%. It indeed is very much about perception of acceptance. I'm surprised 1.3% of men had a lesbian encounter. |
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Post by Thejebusfire on Dec 21, 2011 0:08:37 GMT -5
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Post by Shano on Dec 21, 2011 0:10:38 GMT -5
It's all about reporting bias. For example there was an internal study among the students of my former university. Females reported 17%!!!! lesbian encounters. Males reported 1.3%. It indeed is very much about perception of acceptance. I'm surprised 1.3% of men had a lesbian encounter. I was surprised too... It is a an elite university you know. All kinds of things happen here. |
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Post by clockworkgirl21 on Dec 21, 2011 0:12:04 GMT -5
I wonder if they specified lesbianism over bisexuality. In my high school nearly every girl identified as bi, probably because it was considered cool.
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Post by John E on Dec 21, 2011 0:15:39 GMT -5
I wonder if they specified lesbianism over bisexuality. In my high school nearly every girl identified as bi, probably because it was considered cool. No, the study was about actual sexual encounters, not sexual identity. |
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Post by Shano on Dec 21, 2011 0:16:14 GMT -5
I wonder if they specified lesbianism over bisexuality. In my high school nearly every girl identified as bi, probably because it was considered cool. My understanding is that it specified activity and not identification. The data (which has no claim to be of scientific value) I provided in particular is about sexual encounters. |
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Post by ironbite on Dec 21, 2011 1:03:02 GMT -5
When they talk Teen Lesbianism they're talking about college teens and not high school teens right?
Ironbite-cause I can't have another visit by Chris Hanson.
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Post by Art Vandelay on Dec 21, 2011 1:03:49 GMT -5
Ironbite, what did I tell you? Proxies are your friend.
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