20-05-2014, 23:51
(20-05-2014 12:10 )RatedR Wrote: [ -> ]It can be touted as 'fake lesbianism for male arousal' if it's marketed as a limited time deal. If the girls were just allowed to be more relaxed and natural, then it would not be an obvious marketing scheme. Even if it was, they are advertising as Ofcom make quite clear anyway, so why should they not be allowed to market Bi-sexual girls
Ofcom's main problem will always be that people are making money from premium phone lines and they want to regulate them to 'save' people from the babeshows. An agenda which they should not be allowed to work to, as their is no law against making money from televised phone ins. It's how Ant and Dec survive after all! It's definitely no surprise that ofcom targets babeshows, reality voting shows and talent shows, is it? Protecting the youth... £££
Ofcom treats same sex contact as unusual, aberrant. That might be true among Marks and Spencer wearing Church of England attending employees of a censorship body, but is it true of the general population?
16% of women aged 16-44 have had a same sex experience. 8% with genital contact.
29% of women had sexual intercourse before the age of 16 (based on women aged 16-24 when interviewed. Even among 55-64 year olds the figure was 10%, despite social norms being different and contraception being unreliable, expensive and difficult to obtain back then).
The average lifetime number of sexual partners was 7.7 for women aged 16-44. (Not clear how a lifetime figure was determined).
17% of 16-24 year old women had anal sex in the past year - about 1 in 6. Even among 55-64 year olds the figure was 4%, 1 in 25.
71% gave or received oral sex (16-24 year olds), dropping to 35% aged 55-64. Even among 65-74 year olds the rate was 19%, about 1 in 5.
Lets repeat that. 1 in 5 old ladies have oral sex at least once a year.
Which nutjob pressure group came up with these stats? NatCen is a social research charity whose remit is "Social research that works for society". Natsal is one of the largest scientific studies of sexual behaviour in the world, based on a survey of 15,000 men and women aged 16-74. Surveys have been conducted in 1990-91, 1999-2001 and 2010-12. The most recent survey was funded by grants from the Medical Research Council and The Wellcome Trust with additional funding from the Economic & Social Research Council and the Department of Health.
Former Disney executive, James Thickett, Ofcom Board Member and Content Board Member is a NatCen Trustee. That does not make him responsible for every line of every report published, but it does make the NatCen/NatSal research difficult to dismiss.
It also makes Ofcoms qualitative survey of 50-60 people look silly.
It would be interesting to see how widespread threesomes, open relationships and dogging are among the general population, but that does not seem to be on the survey. These are probably low, but perhaps not as low as the moralists would have you believe.
The $64,000 question is where do our regulators sit on these distribution curves? I would put money on them being at the conservative end of each curve, with fewer sexual partners and less adventurous sex lives.
If they are unrepresentative of the general population then they are unfit to impose their moral world view on everyone else.
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