Sex Through the Years

Last Friday we found out

that our first draft of our research papers is going to be due at the end of this week, containing 1200 to 1500 words. There is a slight problem with this entire assignment, however, because I have not yet even started writing my paper. Even worse I do not even know for sure what I want to talk about in my paper. This is called unorganized; I just cannot decide which direction I want to go with my paper and how I want to address the entire issue of sex. There are a couple of ideas that I would like to think out by analyzing the different facts that I could include and discuss. Hopefully by the end of this blog entry I will be able to have a better idea of what I want to base my entire paper on. I know that it is going to involve teenage sex rates, but I need a much more specific topic so that I can have a strong paper.

One idea that I am considering is comparing sex rates today from the rates that took place in the 1960’s and 1970’s. This would be kind of hard to find good and reliable information from the earlier time period so I am almost afraid of continuing with this idea. I think that this would provide a lot of valuable information that most people are unaware of and would open up a large group of options to what I could talk about. This would involve a lot of research and I am not sure if I really have the time to work on such an extensive topic.

I could also analyze why the United States is becoming even more open to the ideas of teenage sex. This has changed over time greatly, even during the past decade. These also vary between cultures so I could compare how different nations deal with teenage sex and then contrast it with that of the United States. I know that there are many different practices in various countries that the United States would find completely irrational. This would be interesting to see how teenage sex stands out in certain world powers and the influence that it has on us here in the United States. This would require a lot of research also but I think that I could find some very interesting information that could keep my readers very captivated by the topic.

A third method that I could use to write my research paper is discussing different anecdotes that are related to teenage sex. Many things are said to scare teenagers who are thinking about having sex but many are really not true at all. I would like to access a couple of these different ideas and I would enjoy being able to inform others of the interesting scandals by sexual education teachers. This could also involve how American teenagers feel when they are talked to about sex. Why are so many teenagers afraid of talking to their parents about having sex with a boyfriend or girlfriend? I think that this would be hard, since there is not that much information but I feel that it would be the most interesting of the three.

A final topic that I am considering is how many teenagers lose their virginity while under the influence of either drugs or alcohol. This could include date rape, which is the idea of spiking drinks in order to get a person to agree to sexual activities. I don’t know how common this is among teenagers but I do know that there are increasing numbers of teenagers who lose their virginity before they even turn 18. Much of this is related to alcohol and I think that it would be very interesting to see the correlation between the two topics. This is probably the topic that I am going to end up choosing.