The greater the number of non-marital sex partners a woman has the greater is the probability that she will be depressed. Only 2.8 percent of women who had had sex only with men they married reported that they felt 'not very happy' or 'very unhappy' at the time of the survey, while 8.3 percent of women with 16 to 20 non-marital sex partners reported that they felt 'not very happy' or 'very unhappy.'
Source:
"The Harmful Effects of Early Sexual Activity and Multiple Sexual Partners Among Women: A Book of Charts"
Rector, Robert E.
Johnson, Kirk A., Noyes, Lauren R.; and Martin, Shannan
Heritage Foundation Working Paper Vol. 1, Number . June, 2003. Page(s) 21.
(HT: FamilyFacts.org)
Or, to put it positively, 92 percent of women with 16 to 20 non-marital sex partners are 'happy' or 'very happy.'
In order to compare apples to apples, the authors should compare married women who have only had sex w/ their husbands to married women who have had more than 5 partners. But controlling for marital status might cut against the political purpose of the study for which the data was cherry picked.
Everything in FRC is either cherry picking of irrelevant data or outright propaganda
Ah, the defenders of the Happy Hooker at out in force aren't they.
jb
it takes a particular type of brain dead morron to equate women who had more than one sexual partner over the course of their lives with hookers...and it is THEY who are out in force today
As a female who had more than 50 non-marital sexual partners I can totally agree with the original statement that we have more depression. I have suffered from severe depression once in my life and moderate depression for several years. I am now and have been for many years taking 2 different antidepressants. My severe depression ocurred from 1991 thru 1995. I experienced disassociation, suicidal thoughts, and many other problems. I believe that I was trying to find someone to love me. I gave sex to get love. I was in therapy for 14 years and that helped me so much. I am now remarried to a true friend whom I love and respect. I would NEVER consider having a sexual experience with anyone else. I regret all the sex I have had in the past.
"I gave sex to get love."
so your problem is not the number of sexual partners you ve had then...you would have been every bit as depressed had you been in a 30 years long marriage to the same man where you believed you had to give sex in order to get love. most girls realize by the time they're 14 that people who give sex and expect love in return are stupid.
Ludwig,
I guess since you don't have any spiritual values or a relationship with Christ, I shouldn't expect you to be kind or non-judgemental. Still, your comments to repented provide an excellent example of a heart unaffected by compassion. I pray that you may yield your heart to Christ and his ability to restore your ability to love another as yourself.
I've had my share of trolls here at EO, but I can't think of any that are as consistently despicable as Ludwig. He truly is a loathsome human being.
"I've had my share of trolls here at EO, but I can't think of any that are as consistently despicable as Ludwig. He truly is a loathsome human being. "
why thank you very much joe...i really cant think of a better praise than that of being despised by folks who put more trust in the figments of their imagination than in the reality that surrounds them. that way i always know i m doing something right...cheers.
"I guess since you don't have any spiritual values or a relationship with Christ, I shouldn't expect you to be kind or non-judgemental. Still, your comments to repented provide an excellent example of a heart unaffected by compassion. I pray that you may yield your heart to Christ and his ability to restore your ability to love another as yourself."
first of all, the harshness of my comments to repented have a lot to do with the fact that i dont believe a single word of her/his story...it sounds a little too tailored to fit exactly the initial "fact" posted by Joe. But even if,for the sake of argument it was actually genuine, it doesnt invalidate my reply in the least. Most people who engage in sexual activity allready know that exchanging sex for love is a illogical proposition. Incidently,i dont require a personal relationship with fictional characters from the late bronze age to understand what love is all about which is why i know for a fact that sex and love are two things that can be combined just as easily as they can exist separately.
Ludwig,
Of course you don't need a relationship with God. It is obvious that you you are doing just fine at being a loving, joyful person on your own. I mean the evidence is all around. Anytime you comment it is in a spirit of brotherhood, love and encouragement. What a powerful testimony to the fact that one doesn't need God to be a fulfilled human being.
"Of course you don't need a relationship with God. It is obvious that you you are doing just fine at being a loving, joyful person on your own. I mean the evidence is all around. Anytime you comment it is in a spirit of brotherhood, love and encouragement. What a powerful testimony to the fact that one doesn't need God to be a fulfilled human being. "
a few points to correct...I said i dont have any relationship with your Jesus fellow...i never said anything about God. Jesus is an obvious amalgam of various pagan demigod character of ancient pagan faiths that was essentially constructed by christians. And God,weather or not it exist is probably as much a God of love and IT is a god of hate or of blue or of saturdays. It is extremely childish and irrational to take one tiny aspect of a seemingly boundless universe and make that the defining aspect of its purported creator. If God created everything,It also created love...which means that love did not exist before God created it...which means its not part of Its nature,whatever that may be.
Ludwig,
You still haven't provided an explanation for your boorish and mean behavior. If it isn't because you lack a relationship with God, what is it? Please keep the comments coming, they provide a tremendous example of what a life enslaved to sin looks like.
As with most of the "Family Facts" posted so far, this one fails to grasp the crucial difference between causation and correlation. The title of study - "The Harmful Effects of Early Sexual Activity . . ." - betrays the assumption of cause-and-effect. The information in the report (yes, I read it) does not establish causation, but rather correlation. It shows that women with 16-20 sexual partners described themselves as less happy (though not more clinically depressed) than women with fewer sexual partners.
I think one of the points Ludwig is raising is that these women, or at least some of them, might be having sex with so many partners because they are unhappy. "repented" herself acknowledges that she was having sex in order to gain acceptance. In other words, sex with multiple partners was not the cause of unhappiness, but rather the result of it.
Another distinct possibility is that these two factors (unhappiness and desire for multiple sex partners) are caused by something else (chemical imbalance?). The information presented in the study does not allow for a conclusion here. The report also seems to lack any allowance for other factors, such as age and income, that might affect the findings.
Another interesting point from the report is that women who have had no sexual partners are far more likely to describe themselves as "very happy" than women who have had only one sex partner. Hmmmmm. Better not let that get out!
"You still haven't provided an explanation for your boorish and mean behavior. If it isn't because you lack a relationship with God, what is it? Please keep the comments coming, they provide a tremendous example of what a life enslaved to sin looks like. "
no explanation other than the fact that childish irrational rethorics should always be ridiculed...no one has the right to make all manors of false claim,wave their bible as evidence and expect to be taken seriously. As for my comments,they provide an exemple of my very real contempt for cultists who try to impose their mythological beliefs one everyone around them regardless of how often they claim not to.
Ludwig,
So why are you here? Something is compelling you to engage Christianity. Something about it inspires a visceral reaction. Your very presence here is evidence that you struggle against the claims of Christ, after all if you really believed what you are saying, you would simply ignore it.
I suspect you have the same opinion of astrology as you do Christianity, yet somehow I doubt you troll astrology sites and mock the contributors. Yes something is different about Christianity. Something you can't explain. Something that gnaws at you and demands you confront it.
Baetis
you re right...i dont "troll" astrology sites to confront them because astrology buffs are harmless...they are not out to remake society in their image, nor are they going about spreading the lie that we are all some damned cursed abominations subject to a celestial despot who doesnt destroy us like we deserve cuz he's just too nice. some of my people have long believed in the live and let live philosophy, hoping that you christians would one day grow out of your infantile tripe about "saving" the rest of us from a non-existant curse that your forebears invented in the first place to find a way of making sense of a world filled with at least as much sorrows as with joys and that did not involve regocnizing the otherwise obvious fact that we are not the cornerstone of a universe created for our sole benefit. unfortunately,those hopeless optimists do not find any counterparts on the other side of the field. in short,i guess its about taking the danger head on instead of waiting for it to come after me on its own time table.
Just ignore Ludwig. His hifalutin talk about rational discourse is 100% hypocritical because he does not offer any logical rebuttal beyond infantile gainsaying. Look at his initial post: "Everything in FRC is either cherry picking of irrelevant data or outright propaganda".
He doesn't DEMONSTRATE that it's irrelevant or propaganda, he just hurls the slogan and thinks he's accomplished something. Pitiful.
Promiscuity never made anybody's life happier. Men or women.
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