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“Despite an increasingly sexualized youth culture, the desire for romance among teenage girls has remained, said Mike Farrell, a partner at Toronto youth research firm Youthography. “There are some fundamental things that haven’t changed that much. And one of those, especially with girls, is the focus on a search for meaningful love that is hopeful, passionate, real,” he said. According to Youthography research, only a quarter of young teenage girls were interested in sex, while more than half said they thought about marriage and having children.”

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“Lack of sex attracts teen girls to Twilight series”
AKA, more bullshit about teenage sexuality based on stereotypes and bad research.

Yeah, if you’re basing a study on romance/love and sex being somehow mutually exclusive you need your PhD revoked.

What the fuck is wrong with this study cohort, that TWICE AS MANY of them are interested in marriage than are in sex?

Also, raise your hand if you find it problematic that this incredibly biased bullshit study reinforces “girls just want sexless romance and boys just want unromantic sex” which is one of the reason why so many men and women grow up unable to have functional bonds and instead reduce one another to stereotypes.

Also let’s not even take into account that girls seem to want to “have babies” but are “not interested in sex”.  These girls are clearly confused.

(via ponymalta)