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Originally Posted by lightnlovly
that is insane!!!! In sixth grade..there weren't any thoughts of sex...hell, kissing was the best thing ever!! I'm officially disturbed by this mess!
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I dunno... I remember seeing some pretty serious makeout sessions in 6th grade... Typically it was between the girls and boys who were a lot more developed than the rest of us. It's not too far fetched to think that things can move a little farther. I know it didn't take long for me to move from kissing to touching to oral, etc. Granted in a classroom was pretty risky, I'm all for PDA, but not that much =p But you hear about adults hooking up in airplanes in their seats on a crowded plane. So not everyone has inhibitions about having sex around other people, it turns some people on.
The other thing you have to take into consideration is that with all the hormones and the rise of obesity in children, kids are developing now a LOT faster than they were when many of us were growing up. So it's only natural to think that kids sexual urges are going to kick in a lot sooner. So if you think about the kids I described above, you know the ones making out and having heavy petting sessions in 6th grade (or earlier), there are MORE of them now. So it's only reasonable to think that if more kids are messing around with each other, the chance someone hooks up, is going to be higher.
Another problem is, the people in this country are bring ignorant to that fact that kids develop faster, and parents are still not talking about sex, and were not teaching sex ed earlier. I didn't get sex education until 10th Grade in HighSchool. I was 16 by then, and they were teaching me about my period. Gee thanks, I'm glad I found about that after I've been getting it for several years. And OMG, thats what a penis looks like?!?! I had no idea :sarcasm:
Lets take it a step farther and add in popular culture. Media, movies, music. This stuff here, this is your 6th graders Sex Education. Snoop Dogg rapping about how, "Your pussy is so wet" and how he's gonna "put his dick on you" is teaching your daughters about sex. PittBull rapping , "Bend over girl, show me what your working with" is teaching your daughter how she should act around her male friends in school. 50 cent rapping about how he has sex, and doesn't make love, he's teaching your sons how to value women.
Add in the, "hook up" culture, where women now feel the freedom to have sex w/out being called a "whore or a slut" (personally I think this is a good thing), and it's not surprising that boys and girls are having sex earlier. Your telling me you, or your friends were never pressured in your early teens to have sex with your boyfriends, or to do oral or whatever? How many of you didn't do it, not because you didn't want to, but because you didn't want to be thought of as a slut? Guilt and shame are powerful motivators NOT to do something. Lots of girls growing up dont feel that anymore. I dont personally think it's a bad thing, just something society needs to acknowledge.
