The basic template for this gambit is included in this article by the BBC.
Step 1. Produce some research that even a non-expert must realise is stretching the bounds of probability:
A third of teenage girls suffer sexual abuse in a relationship and a quarter experience violence at the hands of their boyfriends, a survey suggests. Nearly 90% of 1,400 girls aged 13 to 17 had been in intimate relationships, the NSPCC and University of Bristol found. Of these, one in six said they had been pressured into sexual intercourse and one in 16 said they had been raped.
Step 2: What a coincidence! The all-seeing and all-knowing government already has plans in place to 'do something about it':
A spokesman for the Department for Children, Schools and Families said personal, social, health and economic studies - including relationship education - would become statutory for children of all ages by September 2011.
"Parents have a vital role to play in providing information and advice on sex and relationships," he said. "They should lead on instilling values in their children, but schools have a clear role in giving young people accurate information and developing the skills they need to make safe and responsible choices."
Tuesday 1 September 2009
Classic fakecharity gambit
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Very convenient. You know what? I have a sneaking suspicion that there is a link. ;-)
"A third of teenage girls suffer sexual abuse in a relationship..."
I'd like to know how they were defining 'sexual abuse', myself...
PR-Savvy organisations need headlines, but they can't lie, so in order to grab publicity, they just change how something is defined.
Look into surveys of identity theft and you see that "affected by identity theft" includes "someone you know has been a victim of identity theft".
Boys pressuring girls into sex is quite normal. Our differences in reproductive ability dictate it (males can reproduce ever few days, females can reproduce every 10-11 months). To define it as "abuse" is simply monstrous.
"one in six said they had been pressured into sexual intercourse"
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but haven't boys ALWAYS pressured their girlfriends for sex?
I'm pretty sure I can remember each and everyone of mine doing so... in those days though, girls had the intelligence and control to say, "NO, I am not ready to have sex".
I wish they would just go back to teaching what we pay them for. Maths, English, Geography, History, Science.. you know, all those subjects they've had to dumb down because they spend so much time teaching them useless crap like "relationship education".
Widespread abuse in teenage relationships
Of course, the lefties are "shocked" and are discussing ways to improve the self esteem of teenage girls when it's their parents that should be teaching them to keep their legs closed!!!
Does anyone have a link to the actual study, because as everyone else has already said it does seem implausible. It isn't on the NSPCC website.
And how many boys have been pressured..?
What? Males? Pressured? It can't be just me it's happened to, can it? Am I a particular sex magnet? The mirror says I'm not...
But, who hasn't been in the situation where your partner is all hot to trot and you're actually feeling a bit tired or thinking about javascript right now, but you know how upset girls get when they're rejected, so going along with it is easier than the frosty atmosphere...
Everyone does it sometimes more to please their partner than to please themself, just as we all do lots of other things to please others more than ourselves on occasion. Like going to see a movie because your partner wants to see it, or doing unnecessary cleaning because she can see imaginary dirt. It's the give and take of human existence.
All statistics are bunk, because the devil is in the interpretation applied.
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