Behind teen girls’ sky-high depression: Forced sex, social media
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Published Feb. 24, 2023, 9:38 p.m. ET
Rampant sexual coercion, combined with social-media and other pressures, is sowing today's record waves of crushing depression among teen girls. Getty Images
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Rampant sexual coercion, combined with social media and other pressures, is sowing the seeds of today’s record waves of crushing depression among teen girls, and a new report documents just how bad the situation has gotten: Per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study, teen girls are forced to have sex at the “highest level we’ve ever seen.”
More than half (57%) of girls felt persistently sad or hopeless in 2021, double the rate for teen boys (29%), while nearly one in three girls seriously considered suicide.
These alarming statistics shouldn’t surprise us, given that sexually active teens are more likely to be depressed and attempt suicide, and the confidence of teenage girls especially plummets after sexual activity.
Almost 15% of teen girls said they were forced to have sex, up from 12% in 2011 and the first jump since government researchers began tracking. Yet today’s Hollywood culture, run by liberal progressives, often encourages teenagers to embrace hookup sex, albeit “safe sex” with consent. Teen movies and film normalize teen sexual activity as desirable and marginalize virgins as awkward and hopelessly condemned.
The love wrought by Gloria Steinem during the “women’s liberation” movement of the 1960s unleashed heavy damage on women’s psyches and chained women to male notions of sexuality. Getty Images for The Women's Med
What leftist feminists miss in their howling over “consent” is that the free love wrought by the Gloria Steinems of the world unleashed heavy damage on women’s psyches by normalizing a culture of hypersexualization. Consent is necessary, but it’s the lowest possible bar for women. Women deserve far better.
The “women’s liberation” movement of the 1960s chained women to male notions of sexuality, and we lost heartbreaking ground. They don’t talk about this hollowness in women’s magazines shouting at you to have 50 orgasms a day.
The women’s liberation movement achieved valuable outcomes. We could get a credit card or car loan without a husband’s approval and enter previously closed career fields.
But in many ways, 1960s “feminism” swung too far. It accepted the secular male framework around human sexuality and deprioritized commitment. For thousands of years, humans embraced the order of love, marriage, then sex. Modernity switched the order to sex without love, and love or marriage as mere possibilities later down a murky road.
Young women in record numbers are turning away from God as women who attend religious services at least once a week are 68% less likely to die from “deaths of despair,” including suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol poisoning. Getty Images
This unleashed massive subsidies for unmarried parenting, a welfare system that destroys low-income families.
Science tells us women are genetically wired more deeply for monogamy