Normally I am an advocate of all science, no matter how silly or ridiculous it might seem,at least initially. When I read the title of the UCSF press release "Having oral sex increases likelihood of intercourse among teens," I couldn't help but think, that we as scientists should use a little common sense sometimes, before starting out on an experiment.
How would oral sex not lead to a greater likelihood of intercourse? Has the world changed that much?
No, of course not. But then again, I can see the reasoning behind this study. You hear it all over the news, wild sex parties, rampant STD transmission and rampant teenage pregnancy (which some would argue was an STD in itself); it's important to understand teenage sexuality. However, rather than actually confronting the problem, using common sense to deal with an uncomfortable situation, or god-forbid, parents actually trying to parent, society has decided to spend large amounts of grant money on a set of experiments that reach a conclusion on something any random person on the street would be able to tell us.
To be honest, this reminds me of a joke I heard once.
A biologist is studying a frog and yells at the frog to jump. The frog jumps a three feet.
The biologist cuts off a leg of the frog, and yells at it to jump. The frog jumps two feet.
The biologist cuts off another, leg and yells ant the frog to jump. The frog jumps one foot.
The biologist cuts off another foot, yells at the frog to jump and the frog jumps six inches.
Finally, the scientist, cutting off the final leg, yells at the frog to jump, but the frog doesn't budge.
The scientist keeps trying to entice the frog with his yells and screams to jump, but to no avail.
Happy, the scientist, thinking he found a novel discovery, quickly jotted into his notebook -"cut off all legs of a frog and the frog becomes deaf."
So maybe the next time your thirteen year-old girl or boy let's-slip while they had oral sex, they haven't gone all the way yet. Give it time.
Duh.
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