Teenagers of Today Pressured to Sext to Fit in, Study Concluded

Article first published as Teenagers of today pressured to sext to fit in, study concluded on Technorati.

Author: Bennie Hubbard
Published: September 30, 2011 at 3:57 am

Teen are influenced and pressured to sext, sending explicit pictures of them selves through Text Messages and Picture Messages. Teens today are being pressured to conform to this new generation of explicit activity in an attempt of fitting in and even on a wider scale being persuaded by socialized media of today.

Melbourne University researcher Shelley Walker, interviewed 15 males and 19 females, between the ages of 15-20 to conduct a survey on sexting. All participants had similar stories to share on the topic of sexting. She gave vignettes of the lurid images the interviewees had described, including pictures of nudity and sex acts.

Given support by the federal health department, Shelley Walker said it highlighted the need for young people to have a greater say in how to respond to the phenomenon of sexting.

She said the study drew attention to the potentially pervasive nature of sexting.

The interviewees commented on the overwhelming influence of sexual nature of advertising and the sexual behaviour of adult role models, including those in music videos, where this kind of behavior is encouraged.

There was also an app that could be downloaded to your phone to encourage sexting, which although it promoted safe sex, "does highlight how potentially normalised this behavior has become"

She quoted a 16 year old boys concerns on the problem of sexting and feared it might be everywhere, the young boy said the problem of sexting hasn't been taken seriously.

Another speaker said candid early sex education would not only result in Australian teenagers having their first sexual experience later but also reduce unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections.

Researcher Alan McKee said the more relaxed and open approach to sex education in the Netherlands had delivered a significantly better result for young people, contradicting the grim warnings of child sexualisation voiced in Australia.
Professor McKee, who heads a sexuality development research project at Queensland University of Technology, said the campaign by those claiming early sex education prompts "sexualisation of children" was counterproductive and resulted in Australian teenagers having first sex, on average, 18 months earlier than Dutch teens.

He said there was a significantly more open and relaxed approach to discussion of sexuality by Dutch youth and their parents, where the average age of first sex relationships was 17½ compared with 16 in Australia.

The Netherlands also had a significantly lower rate of sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancies among young people.

Professor McKee said early comprehensive sex education did not encourage early sex but did prevent ignorant sex.

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Romance Topics - Women are More Likely Than Men to Have Romantic Regrets

Article first published as Women are More Likely Than Men to Have Romantic Regrets on Technorati.

Author: Bennie Hubbard "Romance Topics"
Published: March 24, 2011 at 4:39 pm

According to a research survey conducted by Neal Roese, professor of marketing at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Business, Women are more likely than man to have regrets about their romantic life. In the field of romantic relationships, everyone seems to have made decisions they had come to regret, says Neal Roese.

In the survey, about 370 adults across the US, between the ages of 20 and 80 years old, were asked to tell what they felt was some of the biggest issues in their past they regretted. The survey which was conducted over the phone concluded that about 44 percent of women listed romance, however only 19 percent of the men mentioned it, Roese said in the study published in journal Social Psychological and Personality Science. Much of the romantic regrets were about "the one that got away, a missed opportunity or someone you knew in college with whom it didn't quite work out," he said.

The second-most common regret centered on family issues, such as a desire to have been kinder to a loved one. Others regretted not attending college or not divorcing sooner, or choosing material items over a life's passion.
Roese said many of those who took part in the survey were eager to do so, and some even became tearful as they spoke.

This survey directly points out how women, are most effected by their past romance. Making them wish and wonder how they may have fixed the burned out flame “old romance”. Furthermore, it points out that we all have regrets whether it be romance or not attending college. I think the reason more women regret their past romance, is simply because of our society and the environment in which we live in.

Women are much more emotionally attached then men are, they care about finding the right person and if they fall short of this goal they will have regrets about it and long for it in the future, thinking they may have been better off with someone from a past relationship. When it comes to admitting regrets, romance happens to be the most common source of nagging anxiety, particularly among women, according to an American researcher.

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What is Love? Love is a divine feeling of infinite possibilities, a feeling of eternal happiness, and an embrace of spiritual peace. Where your mind can meditate in a state of bliss for seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years its eternal. It can fill your body with endless feeling, the feelings are the essence of love it is the foundation. What would you build on this foundation?

It could be one of jealousy, hatred, sadness or one of profound enlightment, one of true delight, one of pure satisfaction. Love is not one way it is infinite, from sadness to happiness. Which would you choose? Your heart longs for it, your heart cries out to it, so please welcome it into your heart and you will experience something unique, you will shine as the sun, your spirit will awaken, you are now complete.

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Romance Topics - How to find out if your partner is cheating “Step by Step”

1. Coming home from work late, avoiding certain questions.
2. Non-responsive to things they may have enjoyed or liked before.
3. Showing less affection or no affection at all. “Less sexual activity or non at all”.
4. Sporadic disappearances from time to time, when they would normally be home or at work.
5. Coming up with reasons why they don’t want to spend time with you or go out.
6. Avoid conversations and or matters involving the improvement of your relationship or marriage.
7. Finding reasons to start arguments, also may abuse or hit you if you question their tardiness for coming home late or just anything they may feel to be inconsistent information or suggestions.

Now to my readers around the world, if you encounter any or all the steps above, then you should consider either leaving your partner or have patience and try your best to improve your relationship but if you choose to stay with that person also keep in mind that if your relationship does get better, it’s a good chance they may cheat again so please keep that in mind.

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Romance Topics - How do you know if that special someone really loves you

I have compiled a list of thing you could do to investigate if that special someone really loves you and steps to improve your relationship.

1. See if they show affection

2. See if they pay attention to you with genuine concern

3. See if they tell you they love you

4. Read body language – It’s a way of knowing peoples true intention and how they really want to express themselves "Hidden Motives"

5. Examine if they spent enough time with you, and if not figure out why and what you could do to fix the problem

6. This reflex directly with step 5 the key element is "Communication", be sure to reach out to that special person in your life, learn as much as you can, ask them how their day was, ask them if they need anything, be genuinely concerned and act on it. Show them you care and not only tell them, because words become void without action to back it up.

7. Finally just simply spend more time together to build your connection to each other, like going out to a movie, or maybe just a walk down the street could make a impact on your relationship, be creative, find what you have in common and use that information to your advantage.

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Romance Topics - Woman in disress

Good morning world, I would like to introduce you to a person i met on myspace, when i first met her she was in a problem, she needed me to tell her what she did wrong and why her love life never seemed to work out. So this is the message she sent me via myspace :

im 21 with a severly broken heart i gess i just wish to hear life will get better..........i have mental problims that efect day to day life......theres this guy iv secretly loved since grade school .....we met wen my life was bad and so was his........i was sooooooo scared to loose him...hes a 10 .....but i think id rate me no higher then a 7.....confadence......severly lacks tho i beleve he has made it worse i want the best for him and would do almost anything for him ........on a good day die........but he thrw me away for what i can only asume a good lay......shes not so hot and reminds me of a life draind junky.....very frail..........im a big booty chick with valuptuos assets and a good head on my shoulders........where do i go from here now that i descover all my time with him has been esentally wasted cus he dosint like plump woman he likes em frail and relly relly small so theres not much hope for me and my fat ass im very sad please help..

My response :

I would like to start by saying you are beautiful and with that simple fact in place you shouldn't feel that you need a man to make yourself feel complete..god made you with all you could ever need so smile be happy..i would suggest for you to explore yourself and see what makes you happy and do them, i believe your problem is that you have been hurt over and over by men you truly love with all your heart if this is the case maybe you should see why this is happening research and think about your past relationship and think of things you may have done wrong pinpoint the flaw and try to figure out what you could do different next time to make sure your next relationship progresses to something you could be happy for...also you should try giving it a break and focus on yourself and be content and make yourself happy cause that's the main thing people must understand if you cant make yourself happy then how do you expect someone else can ?

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