Sexually Active Girls Get Depressed More than Virgins

This blog is about fighting misconceptions that damage Israel and Western society. One that we don't generally discuss is the damage caused to young women by the modern liberal notion that we should not tell our daughters about the many males who seek to exploit them.

Here is an interesting study in that regard. The conclusions have been demonstrated before, but this one claims to show that the effect is causal. (The problem with most studies is that cause and effect is hard to separate.)

YOUNG girls who are sexually active are far more likely to suffer from depression than those who remain virgins, according to a controversial study.

Mainstream news bias here. The conclusions would be scientifically controversial only if they contradicted previous studies, which they do not. They are only controversial in that they contradict the liberal conspiracy of trying to convince impressionable girls that they should be succumbing to peer pressure and acting as if it is no big deal.

Academics found that teenage sex leaves many girls with feelings of guilt and low self-esteem.

Following a study of more than 14,000 US teens aged between 14 and 17, researchers said the feelings could be directly ascribed to sexual activity, rather than outside influences.

The study, published in the Journal of Health Economics, found that having sex doubled the chances of girls becoming depressed, with 19 per cent of those who had sex exhibiting symptoms of depression, compared with 9.2 per cent who had abstained.

The study also found that the mental health of boys in the same age group did not correlate with sexually active.

Or as Jacob's sons would put it in Genesis:

ha-k'zonah ye'aseh et achoteinu?

Should our sister be treated as a harlot?

Here is a must-read on the topic.