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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Radio programme about the sexual pressures faced by teenagers

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vesuvia · 29/01/2011 16:19

Teenage Kicks is a radio programme on BBC Radio 4. It explores the sexual pressures faced by teenagers in Britain today.

You can listen to it on BBC iPlayer before Friday 4 February.

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LadyBiscuit · 29/01/2011 22:20

Did you listen to it? I had to turn it off as it made me so profoundly depressed :(

TapselteerieO · 29/01/2011 22:34

I listened to it, posted a link on a thread the other day - it was hard to listen to, I think there has to be a campaign about this, linked into the availability of pornography, it is depressing.

vesuvia · 30/01/2011 16:53

I did listen to the programme. It is depressing to discover that so many teenagers are embarking on adulthood, based on such bad relationships and bad sexual experiences.

It sounds like some of the girls involved in the programme had been raped, but they did not regard it as rape because it was their normality.

A couple of quotes from the programme:

Based on interviews with teenagers aged 13 to 17 in England, Scotland and Wales,
"In 2009, the NSPCC published a report on partner exploitation and violence in intimate teenage relationships... 88 percent said they had been in some sort of relationship with a partner. More worryingly, many of the girls said they were experiencing violence. A quarter said they had been pushed, slapped or hit. A third admitted that they had been pressured or forced into sexual acts against their will and nearly three quarters claimed they had been bullied, humiliated, called names or controlled by a boyfriend. And this was reported across all backgrounds and classes. So while teenage relationships are generally healthy, for a significant minority there seems to be abuse, and some of that is happening on the Internet ... That is what makes it distinct from adult domestic violence."

"Why are boys failing to understand what abuse behaviour is? Youth projects point to one pervasive influence - porn."

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MoaningMedalllist · 30/01/2011 17:25

absolutrly none ofr that shocks me

MrsCurly · 30/01/2011 17:39

thanks for passing that on

MoaningMedalllist · 30/01/2011 21:59

I'm not being complacent but in a despairing sort of way

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