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Author Topic:   Sexual expression: your opinion
nator
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Message 12 of 134 (262845)
11-24-2005 8:40 AM
Reply to: Message 11 by IrishRockhound
11-24-2005 8:01 AM


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Well, I'd say on the whole people can get by without playing basketball, inventing new tools, or eating tasty food.
Lack of physical activity can often lead to depression and illness.
Not exercising one's mind can lead to faster brain degeneration and cognitive funtion when one is older.
Lack of eating leads to starvation.
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Sex, however, is the great leveller - just about everyone mentally and physically capable of it on earth appears to be doing it or wants to do it.
That's what people think, but not so much in the US and other industrialized nations.
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(Of course I'm generalising here, if you've got actual stats I'd love to see them.)
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Durex Survey (2003) Highlights:
People have sex an average of 127 times a year.
Three quarters of those polled are happy with their sex lives.
Eastern Europeans (Hungarians, Bulgarians, and Russians) are the most sexually active (150).
David Beckham was chosen as the sexiest man. George Clooney and Ben Affleck round out the top three.
Jennifer Lopez was chosen as the sexiest woman. Catherine Zeta Jones came in second. Halle Berry and Britney Spears tied for third place.
45% of those taking the survey reported having a one night stand.
Those in Thailand, China, and Vietnam were the most contented with their sex life.
Fins and Russians were the least happy.
Americans were low on the frequency list in 2003 at 118 times per year.
The three countries with the lowest sexual frequency were Sweden (102), Maylasia (100), and Singapore (96).
48% of women admitted to faking an orgasm.
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Does anyone know the long-term effects of restricting one's sexual expression?
In women, not having sex leads to a lessening of desire, and in men, it's the opposite. At least, that seems to be the general trend.

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nator
Member (Idle past 2190 days)
Posts: 12961
From: Ann Arbor
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Message 14 of 134 (262857)
11-24-2005 9:11 AM
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11-24-2005 8:57 AM


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Bad analogy there, schraf. You're equating not playing basketball with not taking any physical activity. Similarly, not inventing new tools does not equate to not exercising one's mind, and not eating tasty food does not equate to not eating at all.
True, it was not a very good analogy.
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People need some form of physical activity, mental exercise, and nourishment, yes. The actual specifics are up to the individual. So can we say that people need some form of sexual expression too, assuming that they would choose the specifics of that expression themselves? I don't know, hence this thread.
Well, considering that people have orgasms in their sleep, I would say it's safe to say that the body does reflexively react sexually.
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(As an aside: David Beckham??? He looks like a dog in a bad wig! How the hell did he make the top three sexiest men??)
He doesn't look like a dog in a bad wig to me.
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Thanks for the stats, by the way.
You're welcome!

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nator
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Message 106 of 134 (264975)
12-02-2005 7:31 AM
Reply to: Message 96 by Silent H
12-01-2005 3:33 PM


Re: Information, Relationship and Expression
I have seen many teenagers both male and female who are but 13-15 years old and already have a kid! They are locked up and the state ends up taking care of both 13 year old parent and child!
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Why should this situation pose a problem to a person in a first world country? Not the locking up part, but the age part. The fact that what you suggest is a result is an indictment of how we as a society handle pregnancy, rather than anything about pregnancy.
If she's old enough to bleed, she's old enough to breed, holmes?
There's lots of medical reasons that it's a bad idea for young girls to be having babies aside from the societal issues. They and their babies are at greater risk for all sorts of problems.
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Teen mothers are more likely than mothers over age 20 to give birth prematurely (before 37 completed weeks of pregnancy). In 2002, the 7,315 girls under age 15 who gave birth were more than twice as likely to deliver prematurely than women ages 30 to 34 (21 vs. 9 percent).2 Babies born too soon face an increased risk of newborn health problems and even death, as well as lasting disabilities.
Teen Mother’s Health Affects Her Baby
Teens too often have poor eating habits, neglect to take their vitamins, and may smoke, drink alcohol and take drugs, increasing the risk that their babies will be born with health problems. Studies also show that teens are less likely than older women to be of adequate pre-pregnancy weight and/or to gain an adequate amount of weight during pregnancy (25 to 35 pounds is recommended for women of normal weight). Low weight gain increases the risk of having a low-birthweight baby (less than 5 pounds).
Pregnant teens are more likely to smoke than pregnant women over age 25. In 2002, 13.4 percent of pregnant teens ages 15 to 17 and 18.2 percent of those ages 18 to 19 smoked, compared to 11.4 of all pregnant women.2 Smoking doubles a woman’s risk of having a low-birthweight baby, and also increases the risk of pregnancy complications, premature birth and stillbirth.
A teenage mother is at greater risk than women over age 20 for pregnancy complications such as premature labor, anemia and high blood pressure. These risks are even greater for teens who are under 15 years old.2 These youngest mothers also may be more than twice as likely to die of pregnancy complications than mothers ages 20 to 24.3

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