Could Extremely Restrictive DRM Prevent Teen Pregnancy?
from the fails-yet-again dept
There's no shortage of studies warning about the corrosive effects of media on youth. Lately, there have been a lot of studies attempting to make a link between violent video games and violence among youth. Though the studies tend to be flawed, they would be harmless were it not for the fact that they form the pretext for ridiculous, unconstitutional laws that get written up in the name of protecting children. Now a new study attempts to draw a causal link between listening to sexually suggestive music and engaging in sexual behavior. The study found that teens who weren't sexually active, but listened to this music, became sexually active sooner than their counterparts who listened to non-sexual music. But this isn't enough to prove causation. It's just as likely that teens who were already interested in sex (but weren't having sex) were attracted to sexually-explicit music. Of course, such subtleties tend to be lost on the politicians who read these studies and pass laws based on them. And as much as parents might like to believe otherwise, monitoring a teenager's iTunes playlist won't do much to prevent them from having sex if they're so determined.
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DRM and Sex?
Reminds me of that commercial from Microsoft...
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we can also switch music to pay per listen. $0.10 per play.
while we're at it.. lets just lock our kids in jails until they're old enough to serve in the military. that should prevent a lot of new laws from being made right?
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This study just got released. Don't bitch about a hypothetical.
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Ice Cream Law
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I'm Flawed Too...
I think the real problem isn't music, video games or even t.v. It's the parents and the underfunded education system. We have parents that are undereducated teaching and raising their own children who are getting even less guidance from parents who will then have children of thier own blah blah blah...you get the point.
Anyone else noticed the quality of drivers decline over the past decades? Also noticed that most public school systems dropped drivers education to save money around 5 years before the down trend began?
Same thing with socially responsible parents and the decline of funding for the school systems. Add to that an accountability for ones own actions that is almost non-existant now and we have this crap.
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Because schools have dropped it from their curriculum, students are forced to take private courses. These pricvate driving schools tend to be more acute to the specifics of driving than some health teacher who teaches driver's ed three hours a week.
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*lol*
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no answer
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Logical Fallacies 101
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Re: Logical Fallacies 101
Try procter (what I think I was taught at school) or proctor (as it seems to be spelled across the interweb).
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..and the cow jumped over the moon
Yes this is sarcastic.
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RE: #12 RE: I'm Flawed Too... by DreadedOne509
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All Mighty Parents
Are only children of "bad" parents susceptible to being influenced by things such as music?
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Sad
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and trees cause rain!
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censorship laws
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"I don't see why ppl waste money on stupid politics rather than focusing on things suchs as education and a more efficient society instead of trying to screw each other over with laws cause some company is bribing them?...."
I'd like to add to this list, and request that laws be made that accomplish getting rid of world hunger, and achieve world peace. - I don't know how you do it, but if you can do that that'll be great
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Education and sex education best solution
I never told them the BS about the stork, they knew VERY early how babies were made and what they needed to do to protect themselves.
Did I try to keep them from acting sexually with themselves and others, including adults? No, I simply butted my ass out, and just trusted them to take care of themselves and come to me if they had any problems.
They are now 14 and 16, and are traveling the world with their 26-year old mother. Yes, I got her pregnant at 9 and I was the same age.
The facts of life are that telling children "Don't have sex" isn't working. I have asked children and teenagers whether they have had sex (including oral sex and anal sex) and a staggering 90% of them say yes to one of the forms of sexual activity. Is that a moral crisis? No.
That is a public health consideration, and one that could be solved by putting children on birth control as early as 6 (when my cousin started her periods) and realizing that adult-child sexual relationships actually KEEP some girls from getting pregnant, because the adults are more responsible than the children and teenagers and can afford condoms and other forms of birth control.
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Re: Education and sex education best solution
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teen pregnancy
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