With Unemployment Benefits Extended, Rates of Domestic Masturbation And Sodomy Are Poised to Skyrocket

Stephenson Billings
• ChristWire
July 22, 2010 5:16 am102 comments

masturbation and the economy

The Federal Government offered relief to millions of Americans this week with the passage of the Unemployment Benefits Bill. It was a victory for President Obama and Democratic members of Congress who, with the Gulf Oil spill and the bleak economy, are in desperate need for positive messages to bring back to their home electorates in preparation for the upcoming midterm elections. For Republicans, the main sticking point was the $34 billion pricetag and how it will be funded. In total, The Government Accounting Office estimates that 5 million of the approximately 14.6 million unemployed Americans will benefit from this bill.

One group notably absent from the provisions in this legislation are the young people of this country who are neither on the unemployment rolls nor actively seeking work. Several news reports and anecdotal evidence show that we have a generation of young adults who have simply given up on their job searches until the economy rebounds. They may receive financial assistance from family members or live off savings and credit cards. Estimates are hard to come by, but some experts believe there are between 5 and 10 million 18 to 25-year olds in this position. With consumer confidence at an all time low, few signs of global financial recovery and this trend of 20-something “job-hunting malaise,” some critics fear that the Obama Administration’s policies are only digging us deeper into a recession and much worse.

Traditionally, high rates of unemployment have led to rises in crime across the board– from petty theft to drug abuse and prostitution. Our current crisis, with young educated people being most affected, brings up special concerns for Christian-Americans who have always adhered to solid principles of hard work and family. The incredible blocks of idle time that today’s teens and now 20-somethings have been granted poses a unique problem for our society. A 2004 study conducted in Toronto, Canada found that, “Healthy 21-28 year old males are able to masturbate at least 8-10 times per day if they are not stressed.” Another recent report went even further, stating, “[Masturbation] poses genuine health and spiritual risks, and also threatens workplace safety and the overall productivity of our economy.”

masturbation and the economy

Demographically, masturbation crosses all boundaries. A report first published in Psychology Today did find some interesting characteristics of this trend, however. The March, 2009 article stated that, “White people were the most enthusiastic masturbators. African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and Pacific Islanders reported less masturbation.” Also of note, is that “Previous research has shown that masturbation becomes more likely with increased education” and despite illnesses, “Men who masturbate keep doing it regardless of their health.”

This issue of unemployed and unproductive members of society has resonated strongly in the conservative community. Studies have shown that job searching activity peaks after one year and beyond that, the jobless are far more likely to seek federal and state support for housing, healthcare and other necessities. The worry here is that extending benefits may push today’s crop of unemployed into a permanent place on the welfare rolls. Once citizens have moved into public housing and receive regular money from the government, they are far less likely to ever return as active members of the workforce.

masturbation and the economy

With so many Americans now moving past that point of serious job searching, the rate of masturbation in the United States is set to skyrocket. Mr. Obama’s policies of extending benefits are partly to blame. Also to blame is a culture that does not actively discourage young people from abusing their genitalia. We have enshrined an ethos of arrogance, not humility in our 20-somethings. They believe they are too good to take blue collar or minimum wage jobs because of their college educations. This is clearly evident in the rise of youth subcultures such as the “hipsters” who celebrate the idea that they are financially secure but unemployed. What do these types of people do with their free time? The Toronto study noted:

“Many males masturbate daily, or even more frequently, well into their 20s and sometimes far beyond. This decline is more drastic among females, and more gradual among males. While females aged 13–17 masturbated almost once a day on average (and almost as often as their male peers), adult women only masturbated 8–9 times a month, compared to the 18–22 among men. Adolescent youths report being able to masturbate to ejaculation around six times per day, though some men in older middle age report being hard pressed to ejaculate even once per day.” –via Wikipedia.

Masturbation has often been seen as a gateway to further explorations of the human body. Notorious amongst other experiments are sexual toys, homosexuality and sodomy (see “Sodomy Is Never the Answer” for more information). As a culture we have sunk into even greater perversions with every generation. This sex-obsessed culture will be eerily familiar to those who remember the Biblical story of the adulterous woman Oholibah who could not contain her lust for Assyrian soldiers:

“She became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.“ –Ezekiel 23: 19-21.

Is masturbation a serious issue today? If you consider that we are standing at the crossroads of perversity and perseverance, between a time when an entire generation could move to the unemployment rolls where they would risk their physical and spiritual health through incessant masturbation and sodomy instead of focusing on innovation, hard work and family-building, then yes masturbation is significant problem for our future as a nation. The Obama Administration seems to side with the masturbators, extending them benefits and discouraging them from careers, pushing them to a place where they may end up in public housing, on public assistance with all the free time in the world to practice self-abuse and further immoral penetrations of the body.

How can we stop this crisis? First, we must do whatever we can to elect public officials who are righteous in the lives and have the intelligence to get us through this downtown. Secondly, we need to be far more vigilant in our communities, conscientious of sexual debauchery in our homes, workplaces and on our streets. As we are reminded in James 1: 14 -15, “But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lusts. Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it bring forth death.”

masturbation and the economy

* In addition to the 14.6 million unemployed, the U.S. has 8.6 million semi-employed Americans that the government describes as “involuntary part-time workers” who are on verge of falling into full time unemployment. And when you look at the next age group, children between the ages of 15 and 17, approximately 4.6 of them lack summer jobs.

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    • There is a lot of debate about what the Bible says about masturbation. There are the parts about Onan, and they are compelling but then is the larger biological question if it really is necessary at all. I believe sometime people need release yes but clearly addiction to anything is wrong. What we should be focused on is families. God gave us our bodies and our desires for a purpose that is “to go forth and multiply” and we need teens esepcially to focus on waiting for marriage and starting a family.

      As a parent you are a bit shocked to find out when your child starts masturbating but I think its better to get them into outdoor and healthy activites instead of punishing them. They should always be given the good and Christian alternative to sin. If pornography enters the picture then things get miuch worse and there are programs for that addiction and computer software to manage where your kids go. For adults its a tougher call but again there are teachings on leading a pure faithful life that everyone should turn to in times of that need.

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      • Jesus teaches that even having wrong thoughts is a sin because its a matter of the heart or love. Read your Mathew 5. If you act out on it, its the same thing. Sin is Lawlessness and it all adds up. Sinners must Repent.

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        • Are you people aware this is the 21st century? It is generally accepted that fairytales and myths aren’t real.

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      • You have your heart in the right place but I do not believe this an issue that parents can be liberal with. You need to lead your children, set examples for them and their future is vital to America. We Christians need to remain right up front there in the public eye with a clean spirit and true wholesomeness. We need to remind this country why we’re here and what life on earth is all about. Sending this message truly does start with the children.

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        • blah blah blah more selfrightous bullshit. if people do not fundamentaly agree with you why is it that you can’t just fucking leave them alone.
          as you said. it’s at worst fucking dometic. what is it to you what people do in the privacy of their homes? should i start hunting you down because i’m insulted that you pray and read the bible? should beat you up with a tire iron because you dare live out your values in your own home. if i should not be alowed to do this why should you.
          either stop you hunting of innocent people or accept that you have alowed me to beat you to a bloody pulp if i ever find you.

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        • Billings you know those word : rights of privacy yes you have that In your law if you don’t agree with that than we can sue you for praying In public or whatsover or being a christian

          Your freedom of speech won’t be there if you doesnta ccept the right of privacy and nothing else

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    • I find it so irritating that Christianity never misses an opportunity to further demonize sexuality. According to this we cannot reveal our bodies, have sex before marriage, or even have sex with ourselves. I feel sorry for a community so alienated and ashamed of their own sexuality and desires that they now condemn the act of loving one’s self. Seriously, there are bigger fish to fry than collecting data on how often unemployed 20-somethings fap.

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  • “Another recent report went even further, stating, ‘[Masturbation] poses genuine health and spiritual risks, and also threatens workplace safety and the overall productivity of our economy.’”

    You can’t cite yourself, dumbass.

    I noticed how under that chart, you put “Data Courtesy of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics(c), Christwire.org. So basically you made a graph that’s a compilation of REAL statistics from a reputable source and FAKE “statistics” from your own website. You’re pathetic.

    “Also to blame is a culture that does not actively discourage young people from abusing their genitalia.”

    Masturbating is NOT abuse. Get real.

    “Notorious amongst other experiments are sexual toys, homosexuality”

    Dude, the word “homosexuality” hyperlinks to THIS article! You can’t do that!

    “they would risk their physical and spiritual health through incessant masturbation and sodomy”

    Why are you more concerned about sodomy than about teenagers having heterosexual sex and getting pregnant?

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    • Dear Claire, the date in the charts above was compiled from the US Dept. Of Labor (population, unemployment rates, semi-employed rates), The Toronto study and Psychology Today (rates of masturbation per person, age, etc.). US population projects were from the US Census, via About.com and other details came from a National Health and Social Life Survey.

      Here are the projects for US population growth, pretty fascinating actually:
      2010 – 309,162,581
      2020 – 336,031,546
      2030 – 363,811,435
      2040 – 392,172,658
      2043 – 400,527,776
      2050 – 420,080,587

      http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/uspopulation.htm

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      • Sorry I wrote “date” and I meant “data”.

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        • masturbation is fantastic and 100% natural.
          religion goes agents nature

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      • The Comedian

        The only thing you have going for you is that with more people there are more instances of people jerking off. As for it causing unemployment or something? You make it sound like an epidemic. That’s like saying there’s more people having lunch because they’re not being worked to death, there’s just more time in the day and odds are people are going to be frustrated with the way things are.

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    • Claire, are those your legs in the picture in the article?

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  • heh pure Bullshit Out there masturbation having health risk ??? do you know how we ejaculate Billings when after sexual Intercourse to makes baby ? yes it’s masturbation the fact is it

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    • Procreation is a natural part of the human life cycle and it is of course a wonderful experience for married couples. Masturbation addiction, however, is a serious problem and there is a generational divide on how adults and children view the issue. It may seem harmless to you now, but there are genuine problems with it. You might want to read my other article for something aimed more toward you age group (link at bottom right).

      God bless!

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      • The Comedian

        Oh no, someone jerked off twice in a day when in the past week they haven’t, CALL THE COPS!

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      • “It may seem harmless to you now, but there are genuine problems with it.”

        It IS harmless. It doesn’t spread disease (provided you use CLEAN toys, etc) and it doesn’t cause pregnancy, thus it doesn’t result in abortion.

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        • Mr Debonair

          Toys Sister? Am I to beleive that people I walk past in the toystore are purchasing thees innocent items to use for self-fornicating? And they are considering this while children and families walk by?

          1 John 2:12 ESV I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name’s sake.

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          • Um. That is, sex toys. And no, they’re not innocent by any means: demonic master(bating) crasftswomen forge them out of silicon and the blood and sinew of innocents in the fiery kilns of hell.

            Well, that’s not the whole truth. The vibrating ones are mostly made in China by 14 year-old sweatshop workers.

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      • what I said is the friction of the Penis inside the vagina ( when sexual intercourse ) is also called some sort of Masturbation

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      • How can you claim that procreation is a natural process for “Married” couples? Isn’t marriage a man-made process, therefor unnatural? Reading some of your articles, I think you have read too much of Revelations and not enough of anything else. People wrote the Bible a long time ago, but things have changed. If it was meant to be taken literally at this point in time, there would be passages about whether or not internet piracy is immoral. I think you should try expanding your knowledge. You’re giving morality a bad reputation.

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  • Hey Billings, guess what I just got done doing.

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    • The Comedian

      Taking a nice, long, hot shower? 8D

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    • Having sex with your dog? Is that why you show a dog on your profile but hide your face? Are you involved sexually with that beagle? Are you ashamed to show your visage on this forum while you attack other people? Why not “come out”, Claire? You call yourself an animal “lover”; that is certainly true!

      But they way you respond to humans, you can’t call yourself a humanitarian. You are spiteful and arrogant and a poor example of an atheist.

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      • “Having sex with your dog?”

        I don’t have a dog. Little Saffron was the dog I was assigned to care for at school. I wish I could have adopted him, but one of my cats is very mean so it wouldn’t have worked out. He was adopted by someone else.

        “Is that why you show a dog on your profile but hide your face?”

        My face is hidden because I took the photo myself by simply holding out my cell phone and hoping I got a good shot. My intention was to have him in the picture, whether I managed to get myself in it or not.

        “Are you involved sexually with that beagle?”

        No, but you sure sound like a guilty man.

        Oh, by the way, I don’t take animal cruelty lightly, so your joking about bestiality has certainly raised my suspicions.

        “Why not “come out”, Claire? You call yourself an animal “lover”; that is certainly true!”

        Why not come out? Because I don’t abuse animals. You see, the field that I’m entering into prides itself on HELPING and HEALING animals. Treating an animal as a sexual object is going against what I stand for. Anybody who hurts animals, whether it be physically, sexually, or emotionally, does not love them, just like how anybody who abuses their spouse does not truly love him/her. There is nothing amusing about bestiality, so I suggest you stop joking about it before I find out your IP address and have the ASPCA Law Enforcement on your ass.

        “But they way you respond to humans, you can’t call yourself a humanitarian. You are spiteful and arrogant and a poor example of an atheist.”

        When did I call myself a humanitarian?

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  • The potential health complications of masturbation:

    Complications are extremely uncommon
    Urethritis – a form of mechanical urethritis
    Obsessive masturbation

    Courtesty: http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/m/masturbation/complic.htm#complication_list

    The potential health complications of being overweight or obese:

    Cancer – uterine, breast, ovarian, cervical, gallbladder, colon, prostate, rectum
    Diabetes – type 2
    Osteoarthritis
    Gout
    Gallbladder disease
    Liver disease
    Heart attack
    Stroke
    Hypertension
    Stress incontinence
    Depression
    Increased surgical risk
    Hypertension, systemic
    Sex hormone binding globulin levels low (serum)
    Thrombophilia
    Striae
    Cortisol levels raised (serum or plasma)
    Pickwickian syndrome
    Hyperlipidaemia
    Abdominal distension
    Arthropathy
    Hyperinsulinaemia
    Female infertility
    Uric acid levels raised (plasma or serum)
    Amenorrhoea
    Carpal tunnel syndrome
    Sleep apnea

    Courtesy: http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/o/obesity/complic.htm

    Well, Billings, I’d say that YOUR lifestyle is a lot more hazardous to health than the lifestyle of a masturbator.

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  • The potential health complications of masturbation:

    Complications are extremely uncommon
    Urethritis – a form of mechanical urethritis
    Obsessive masturbation

    The potential health complications of being overweight or obese:

    Cancer – uterine, breast, ovarian, cervical, gallbladder, colon, prostate, rectum
    Diabetes – type 2
    Osteoarthritis
    Gout
    Gallbladder disease
    Liver disease
    Heart attack
    Stroke
    Hypertension
    Stress incontinence
    Depression
    Increased surgical risk
    Hypertension, systemic
    Sex hormone binding globulin levels low (serum)
    Thrombophilia
    Striae
    Cortisol levels raised (serum or plasma)
    Pickwickian syndrome
    Hyperlipidaemia
    Abdominal distension
    Arthropathy
    Hyperinsulinaemia
    Female infertility
    Uric acid levels raised (plasma or serum)
    Amenorrhoea
    Carpal tunnel syndrome
    Sleep apnea

    Courtesy: http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com

    Well, Billings, I’d say that YOUR lifestyle is a lot more hazardous to health than the lifestyle of a masturbator.

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    • Stevie isn’t fat. He’s big boned.

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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    • There is big a difference between gluttony and being overweight. Some people have dietary problems thyroid and the slowing down of the body metabolism that makes weight gain happen. You should not make fun of someone just because they have a diet problem. It is one of the hardest pyhsical issues for one person to confront.

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      • Thank you Mother, you make some very heartfelt and well-meaning observations. Blessings on you!

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        • The Comedian

          Stevie, unless you seriously go mad whenever food is around, you aren’t apart of the group she’s talking about. The type of people this woman is referring to are the ones that go insane without food to a point where they have to be monitored. You are not a part of that group, since you spend much more time searching for things to hate rather than searching for food.

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  • I’m masturbating to this article right now.

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  • great job billings you can missquote people and cite yourself as source.
    now try makeing an argument that doesn’t boil down to “i’m right because i say so!!!”

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    • You do know this is a Christian forum, right? “I’m right because I say so” is one of their most prized excuses.

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      • Captain Obvious

        Really? I always thought it was a forum for relaxation through flaming. It is an excellent source of relaxation for anyone with an IQ higher than that of a carrot. Anyone below that, though, and they’ll believe that Billings is actually a licensed journalist.

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  • Mr Debonair

    For it is illicit and shameful for a man to lie with even his lawful wife in such a way as to prevent the conception of offspring. This is what Onan, son of Judah, used to do; and for that God slew him Gen. 38: 8-10

    ps – I have NEVER touched myself…

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  • wild.jasmine

    masturbation isnt the worst thing kids can do. it happens we’ve all done it. i am more more worried about when it leads kids to having sex and pregnancy. kids are confused and like sponges taking up everything. you just can’t let them jump into new areas without some love and guidance. it can be embarassing but i would talk to them first if you catch them and explain what good sexual health is and how they can do that. i am not really sure i see the connection with the economy that the writer makes. once they finish school and move out theres not much you can do about their little habits. its like smoking. you can tell them one thing but when you go home they go right back to it.

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  • The Comedian

    //One group notably absent from the provisions in this legislation are the young people of this country who are neither on the unemployment rolls nor actively seeking work//

    Due to that, genius, is the fact that there’s actually a classification of people who aren’t working yet aren’t seeking. You retards call them hipsters, everyone else calls them “discouraged workers”. The unemployment rate nor the the labor force participation rate include discouraged workers because they would drastically increase the numbers. To be classified as a discouraged worker, you’d have to be willing to work, but not out finding one for four weeks. While you insult them, the truth is that not everyone can go out and look for a job. A friend of mine graduated college sometime last year and every single day he’s gone out looking for jobs not only in the town area, but down the road and every store he knows about that doesn’t take more than 1/4 of a tank of gas to get to. Every. Single. Day for the past year and a half. Hearing about him and god knows how many more people and it’s easy to see why some people get discouraged from working. Hell, even IF the economy picked up, the unemployment rate would STILL be high because everyone is thinking ‘hey, I can get a job now’, so they’ll start looking, which takes them off of the discouraged worker list.

    //Estimates are hard to come by, but some experts believe there are between 5 and 10 million 18 to 25-year olds in this position.//

    You can’t count you and your buddies as experts, nor do you have the mental capacity to attempt to try.

    I don’t know anyone else that talks about sexual subjects as often as you do. You denounce these things and tell people that they’re going to hell and that it’s immoral and that anything that has anything to do with sex (outside of reproducing children, and knowing you, you probably have some issue with that in some way). Why are so freaking crazy? Is your daddy your uncle and your mom your aunt? Are you some project that escaped a lab that was testing how few brain cells a human can live without? Did someone slap you upside your head when you a newborn? You take ANY issue that’s done even ONCE and make people think that it’s some kind of sin or terrible thing! It’s one thing if a dude sits at home and jerks off every day for weeks on end, it’s different if he releases some stress every once in a while. Seriously! You call people names, insult them, make reckless accusations, bitch and whine if things don’t go your way, and hate just about everything. What’s difference between you and a spoiled, rotten 5 year old?

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    • Hi, yes I am familiar with the term “discouraged workers”. I actually had a paragraph about them which was cut in the editing process. And I agree, they are undercounted and that’s why this economy is in such trouble. Obama is not helping any and we’re not seeing any hope on the horizon. I absolutely agree the discouraged workers are problematic precisely because they contribute to the negative social happenings that I mention in the article above.

      As for the rest of your comment, it was a bit unnecessary, don’t you think? I am simply here trying to spread news and the Good News. I don’t know you but I think anyone who goes around posting anonymous and angry threats like that should take a good, hard look at himself in the mirror. Maybe you’re young, still a child and don’t know any better. Believe me, when you’re older you’ll look back on your sins with regret. Is that the sort of life you’d like to lead? I would love to help you, but you need to open your heart just a crack first.

      “But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. ‘Do not fear what they fear ; do not be frightened.’ Take Courage.” –1 Peter 3:14.

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      • The Comedian

        //Hi, yes I am familiar with the term “discouraged workers”. I actually had a paragraph about them which was cut in the editing process. And I agree, they are undercounted and that’s why this economy is in such trouble. Obama is not helping any and we’re not seeing any hope on the horizon. I absolutely agree the discouraged workers are problematic precisely because they contribute to the negative social happenings that I mention in the article above.//

        No, the economy is in such trouble because of the war Bush started, people spending more money than they have, people taking out loans they can’t afford, and people defaulting and claiming bankruptcy. Obama can’t just snap his fingers together and make things magically better, no one can. He’s trying to do what he thinks is right and while the results may not be the best (or in fact terrible), he’s not the cause of everything, nor is it logical to think he’s the cure to it.

        //As for the rest of your comment, it was a bit unnecessary, don’t you think? I am simply here trying to spread news and the Good News. I don’t know you but I think anyone who goes around posting anonymous and angry threats like that should take a good, hard look at himself in the mirror. Maybe you’re young, still a child and don’t know any better. Believe me, when you’re older you’ll look back on your sins with regret. Is that the sort of life you’d like to lead? I would love to help you, but you need to open your heart just a crack first.//

        No, you’re trying to spread lies and hate under the guise of good news. As for posting threats, at what point did I ever actually threaten you? The only ‘threatening’ about me is my presence, and that’s only in your eyes because you know deep down you’re psychotic and that I’m right. As for looking back? Sorry buddy, I only change my opinion when I’m proven dead wrong, and in those instances I humbly said I was wrong. You have yet to do anything to even chip the wall that is my thought.

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      • Mr Debonair

        ‘Obama is not helping any and we’re not seeing any hope on the horizon’

        God Bless Reverand – but to be honest we shouldn’t expect anything from the young Kenyan, I;m pretty sure that soemone told me once that they heard from someone that they’d read somewhere that he was once seen at a party by someone where he was heard making what sounded like a joke about this. A joke indeed…

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        • The Comedian

          Oh hey, look, it’s Stevie’s boyfriend who’s-totally-not-gay-but-really-is.

          //God Bless Reverand – but to be honest we shouldn’t expect anything from the young Kenyan, I;m pretty sure that soemone told me once that they heard from someone that they’d read somewhere that he was once seen at a party by someone where he was heard making what sounded like a joke about this. A joke indeed…//

          Nice, you’re gonna play the Telephone game and bring this as a fact. I heard from a friend who heard from a friend that read somewhere that was made up by someone around your area that you and Stevie do it in the butt every night. I heard it from someone so it has to be true, right? It’s not like people tend to lie to make someone they don’t like look terrible, right? And it’s not like you already hated Obama in the first place, right?

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          • Mr Debonair

            Such anger –

            Proverbs 16:32. When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand –

            I forgive you your hatred brother, unclench and take my hand.. [firmly]

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  • Frostwolf223

    One does not understand how unemployment leads to masturbation. I mean, yes, it obviously leads to free time, and thats IS one thing one can do with their free time, but it’s one thing among countless thousands. Perhaps the unemployed will read more, or spend more time with friends, or… I dunno, invent something. Admittedly, there are those who would masturbate more with their increased free time, but I think not that it will be as many as you fear.

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    • Unemployment leads to masturbation and Masturbation leads to unemployment (people getting fired for being tired, unfocused, etc). It’s that simple.

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      • The Comedian

        Circular logic, but then again, this is coming from a Christian that doesn’t question jack and believes what he believes.

        Plus, even if you say that it’s just some downward spiral that once someone’s in through some outside force that’s all that happens, your logic relies on people playing with themselves so much that it’s actually unhealthy, and if that were true, then how come there’s no epidemic going on? Why haven’t I heard on the news that so many people are jerking off into comas?

        Not only that, but you’re casting judgment on an action you’ve never done before (what a shock, you denouncing something you’re unfamiliar with as an act of the devil), so what the hell do you know? All of your sources are the same way. You can’t just point to a friend and say “he told me” when his answer as to where he got his info is to point to you and say “he told me”. Or are you going to sit there and tell me I’m an idiot or incoherent or something along those lines and that my writing is terrible and that I’m jealous or some other nonsense?

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      • christianity leads to murder, murder leads to christianity.
        well it goes for all relegions just had to make sure you understod that it included christianity.

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      • Ha! I love how you capitalized Masturbation in this line. Just like the Bible capitalized ‘He’ throughout the book. I must know, and be honest Billings, have you ever masturbated? Or had sex? I can tell that you are single, but were you a “hedon” in your past? I personally have never had sex or masturbated. Never. And I’m 38 years old and married. Beat that!

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      • Dak dak brrrrrragh *moan*. Masturbation bbbbbbaaaaaaaa gak fllluuuuuug grraaaaah.

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  • If you want me to quit masturbating, maybe you should try sucking my dick!!!

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  • R. L. Evans

    “A 2004 study conducted in Toronto, Canada found that,

    That’s over 6 years ago…

    “Healthy 21-28 year old males are able to masturbate at least 8-10 times per day if they are not stressed.”

    Honestly, who the hell does or did it that often? Somebody needs to find a new hobby. (if they can’t find a new job)

    Another recent report went even further, stating, “[Masturbation] poses genuine health and spiritual risks, and also threatens workplace safety and the overall productivity of our economy.”

    Unless you are doing it AT work, (perhaps leaving a mess as a spill and slip hazard) HOW does it threaten workplace safety?!

    And unless you are doing it INSTEAD of showing up on time for work, how would it threaten productivity?

    ANYTHING in excess (even a good thing) can be bad. Even the oxygen we breath and clean water to drink can lead to brain damage and drowning…

    And a lot of the biblical examples against it are from the old law, aren’t we supposed to be living under the new law. (or should I also stop eating pork)

    And if masturbation is “abuse” then you must be doing it wrong…

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    • Hi, I think you need the reports and other studies linked in this article and in “How To Spot A Masturbator” for the data on your question. They explain very clearly how masturbation effects American productivity. You can change, believe me it’s possible. God bless and good luck my friend!

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  • 1st Timothy 5:22
    “Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands and do not share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.”

    This verse is in the context of advice for widows. It seems to be telling widows to keep “themselves” pure (pleasure themselves) instead of with other. According to Tim (from the BIBLE), widows get a pass on masturbation.

    So if you really want to go for it, just marry an old person, wait for God to strike them down, them go to town on yourself.

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  • Here’s another fun one (off topic)!

    Psalms 78:65
    “Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, as a man wakes from the stupor of wine.”

    God has a hangover? I’d be drinking too if I was spending all day being angry at people.

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  • Rosemary Boroughs

    If you’re so morally superior, why do you have pictures of boys with their hands down their pants and young girls with their legs spread open? Your website looks like a porn site.

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  • This is hilarious. It’s pretty clear from Stephenson’s previous articles and his choice of career as ‘motivational child entertainer’ that he’s a classic in-the-closet male pedophile.

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  • According to your graph you end up with an unemployment rate of twenty million percent.

    You’ve probably got more to worry about than masturbation.

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    • Sadly, the endpoint of extreme liberalism, illegal immigration and America’s loss of global primacy could push the US unemployment rate to that level, yes indeed. Currently we’re at about 10%. Is it so hard to imagine 30 years off our world being a much more dire place with the huge rise in population? And as I noted, today’s 10% number is practically useless when you consider more and more people are becoming part-time workers against their own wills (the out-sourcing and freelance trend will only get worse over time) and the “discouraged” workers aren’t even counted. Inevitably we’re talking about a significant portion of the population of the US who won’t have employment in 2040.

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      • 20 million percent isn’t possible…100% is the maximum unemployment rate, unless imaginary people start losing their jobs as well. And are included in the statistics…

        Please educate yourself before you start churning out ridiculous claims like this. Your “graph” is so absurd it made me laugh out loud.

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  • Really, I have been reading all of your articles (hoping against hope that you were just a troll) but this last comment is so absurd I don’t think I can let it slide.

    //Cowjam: According to your graph you end up with an unemployment rate of twenty million percent.
    You: Sadly, the endpoint of extreme liberalism, illegal immigration and America’s loss of global primacy could push the US unemployment rate to that level, yes indeed.//

    …Really? We are in danger of reaching unemployment rates of 20,000,000%? I understand the negative comments (or perhaps masturbation?) has led to you being incredibly tired and unproductive and all that but let’s just pause for a moment, take a step back, and re-read this.
    Twenty MILLION percent.
    Mmmkay… let’s start by looking at the population of the United States. Yes yes liberalism and “illegal immigration” (the polite term is “undocumented”) might make this number somewhat inaccurate but just work with me here for a minute.

    Okie dokie. SO, Wikipedia estimates the 2010 population will be 309,826,000. Just to clarify, that represents 100% – The WHOLE population.

    Now, let’s take 20,000,000 and divide it by 100. You get 200,000. Perfect.
    Now since 309,826,000 is 100% and 100% x 200,000 = 20,000,000%… let’s multiply 309,826,000 by 200,000!

    = 61,965,200,000,000 total unemployment in the United States by your estimation.
    Hm, let’s put that into more understandable terms because that is a BIG number and all the 0′s make things just SO confusing

    61 Trillion, 965 Billion, 200 Million unemployed. Just in the United States. If this is what we’re looking at, I completely agree, we are in some serious trouble… although I highly doubt unemployment would be our greatest concern if there were 62 trillion unemployed in our nation.

    Uh oh…!

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    • You’re reading the graph wrong. The percentage line is in whole numbers, everything else is in millions. Yes it’s a bit confusing, but you don’t have to get wild and pedantic about it. Everyone else here seems to have understood exactly what I meant, all right? 20%.

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      • Oh no, I understood the graph just fine. Read YOUR response to cowjam. If need be, I will quote it again.

        //Cowjam: According to your graph you end up with an unemployment rate of twenty million percent.
        You: Sadly, the endpoint of extreme liberalism, illegal immigration and America’s loss of global primacy could push the US unemployment rate to that level, yes indeed.//

        That was YOUR response, not my misinterpretation. I just found it amusing :)

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  • JesusIsJustAlright

    At least the checks lead to lower rates of prostate cancer!

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  • That evil goo has gotta come out one way or another.

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  • I heard that Jesus pimped the ladies. And The virgin mary…all that phantom fisting.

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  • Isn’t repeatedly bashing the same damn point that is your own, over and over again a form of intellectual masturbation… yes, it’s quite clear that you are coming up violently short like ejaculation from midget rape, but in all seriousness. Masturbation, you can’t knock it.

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  • The unemployed masturbate more because they have more time on their hands, and when time is on your hands, you put other things in it… just to kill time. Trust me… the employed masturbating? have you ever tried flogging that particular horse in the bathroom stalls while fat ernie machine gun sprays the walls next door grunting and groaning and stinking the place out?

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  • Mr Debonair

    Apart from the Reverand Billings you are all clearly unemployed. How else would you find the time to sit at your computre all day spreading your filthy agenda? If you dont like the truth try watching TV.

    Exodus 23:1
    Do not spread false reports. Do not help a wicked man by being a malicious witness.

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  • Well I never cared for the sodomy (that is NOT what it’s for… ) but hey, stop saying ‘masturbation’ like it’s a bad thing! You can’t get preggers from it, and you don’t have to do it alone, or even for yourself! Or you can just be a spectator. What a bunch of unrealistic prudes.

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  • This is hilarious in a sad, sad way

    1. I’m just amused about this part.
    //They may receive financial assistance from family members or live off savings and credit cards. Estimates are hard to come by, but some experts believe there are between 5 and 10 million 18 to 25-year olds in this position.//
    That’s the age that the average American is attending college or graduate school, isn’t it? Gosh, if I ever wanted to have at least hobby *and* complete more than just singular, obligatory major, I’d be hard pressed to have a full time job.
    2. Not to mention that there are a significant number of students whose parents feel that a college education is very crucial to their children, those parents can and are paying for their child’s tuition.
    3. Also, you can’t cite your own site as a credible source. As you have even mentioned in some of your articles, they’re not based on empirical evidence but rather are more advice and guidance to parents. Yet now you find the gall to believe that what you wrote was factual?
    4. I also can’t fathom why “Masturbation by Unemployed 16 and 17 Year Olds” is on the graph. The vast majority of 16 and 17 year olds are in school for half of the day, 5 days a week. High school has never and still doesn’t count as being employed. The graph is a conglomeration of condiment smears and labels; it is a complete disconnect with realism and utterly laughable.
    5. Why are all of your paranoid concerns about “Christian America”? Christian is a universalizing and worldwide religion. The early church made it a point to be inclusive of Jews, Samaritans, and Gentiles (basically everyone else). You place Christianity in some sort of bigoted political agenda. Christianity existed before America did.
    6. What exactly do you consider Sodomy? Different sects classify different acts under Sodomy. Incidentally, Sodom was destroyed because the people of Sodom committed shameless and impenitent sins. This is part of Wikipedia’s article about the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah:
    In Ezekiel 16:48-50 God compares Jerusalem to Sodom, saying “Sodom never did what you and your daughters have done.” He explains that the sin of Sodom was that “She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me.”
    In Luke 17:28-30 Jesus compares his second-coming to the judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah; (RSV):
    “Likewise as it was in the days of Lot—they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built, but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom fire and sulphur rained from heaven and destroyed them all—so will it be on the day when the Son of man is revealed.”
    Clearly sexual sin was not the only thing that merited the cities’ destruction. Refusal to help the needy, adultery (which is more commonly a heterosexual sin), pride and condescension, violence, greed (rampant in our society by people of all ages and orientations), gluttony, as in overindulgence in food and drink (America is more or less *the* most wasteful nation), and also sexual immorality- the joining of ‘strange’ flesh (this is speculated to refer to bestiality), these were all sins of Sodom.
    7. Finally (for now), I can’t think of decade in the past half century that didn’t have a sex-related stigma attached to its youth. You speak as if things are getting worse without offering any data about the past.
    Our U.S. History book talks about ‘Sex o’clock America- The 1950s: fast cars and back seat lovin’; young adults began to date to have fun. Sexual revolution- the 1960s and 1970s- More awareness to study people and their sexual interests and preferences, the free love movement (clearly it was important and widespread enough to be noted in history). Rock and roll 1980s and the beginning of HIV/AIDS awareness- 1970s and 1980s: more unsafe/unprotected sex; people of all orientations develop HIV.
    8. I’m not sure if enough time has passed for history to give my generation a label, but I’m wondering which decade you grew up in, Mr. Billings? Clearly history has not stigmatized your generation any more nicely than it is bound to label mine. Is it only because you are no longer a young person that you feel so condescendingly able to proclaim that with age comes wisdom and better decision making skills? Why is it that economic suffering strikes people of all backgrounds, and why are the politicians you dislike around your age or older?
    In the end you could consider all of your articles moot points, for 1 Corinthians 1:25 (NIV) states “For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.”
    Maybe none of us will meet your idealized version of a wise and good person, and you will grow more bitter about the youth that is ever more detached from you, but it’s okay, because none of us comprehend true wisdom, God’s wisdom. Humility is a trait people of all ages should have, and one you are lacking.

    As an end note, the pictures in this article are kind of scarring, and definitely distasteful; where do you even find these?

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    • “Clearly sexual sin was not the only thing that merited the cities’ destruction. Refusal to help the needy, adultery (which is more commonly a heterosexual sin), pride and condescension, violence, greed (rampant in our society by people of all ages and orientations), gluttony, as in overindulgence in food and drink (America is more or less *the* most wasteful nation), and also sexual immorality- the joining of ’strange’ flesh (this is speculated to refer to bestiality), these were all sins of Sodom.”

      Finally, some sense.

      All these sins are interconnected.

      Does it surprise you that modern sodomites (gays and lesbians) are notoriously selfish? That they think little of charity? And despite their support of liberal politics, have the worst record when it comes to actually helping those in need?

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      • The Comedian

        //Does it surprise you that modern sodomites (gays and lesbians) are notoriously selfish? That they think little of charity? And despite their support of liberal politics, have the worst record when it comes to actually helping those in need?//

        and you know this how? I’ve seen gay Christians, there are several priests and Fathers that came out of the closet, there are homosexuals on either side of the fence, so how do you know this? You pull the same info from your ass like Stevie? Just make up stuff that sounds scary or demonizes the other side? Not only that, but how do you know that gay people don’t support others or are selfish? I mean, really, if you’re going to generalize, then I can generalize that all Christians are fucking fruit-loops that sodomize little boys in the name of God. Why? I have one example, and I’m sticking to it. You’re going to play your game, I’ll play with the same rules. Don’t like it? Tough, until you do some actual research, and talk to a crap ton of gay people and realize you’re wrong, I refuse to state otherwise. It’s easy; you don’t want to be insulted by what a few Christians have done, don’t insult other people simply because you found one person in that group that did something bad.

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      • This is hilarious in a sad, sad way

        //All these sins are interconnected.

        Does it surprise you that modern sodomites (gays and lesbians) are notoriously selfish? That they think little of charity? And despite their support of liberal politics, have the worst record when it comes to actually helping those in need?//

        I just pointed out that sin is never exclusive to one group of people and sometimes more prevalent in heterosexuals…did you just selectively read portions of what I typed?
        I was also wondering if anyone would give a solid definition of sodomy because clearly Sodom wasn’t just destroyed for engaging in homosexual sex…Sparta would have been destroyed as well if that was the case.
        You also need to back up the extreme and negative claims you make. Has there been some sort of demographic analysis of which orientations help more charities? You seem to forget that there are gay couples who adopt children, and logically, facing persecution would inspire one to help others rise from their less than ideal situations, be it related to starvation, sickness, poverty, or anything else, would it not?
        It is solid fact that there are more heterosexual people in this world, and therefore more heterosexuals acquiring diseases, infections, committing sins, promoting greed, corruption, etc. A recent CNN health article states “Two percent of heterosexuals living in poor, urban cities are infected with HIV, the virus that cause AIDS, according to a new report by the Center for Disease Control.” Generally, a percentage of infection greater than 1% is considered an epidemic; why is this not a also an issue to those who especially choose to single out a group of people?

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        • The Comedian

          //I was also wondering if anyone would give a solid definition of sodomy because clearly Sodom wasn’t just destroyed for engaging in homosexual sex…Sparta would have been destroyed as well if that was the case.//

          The wiki says that sodomy is any kind of sex that isn’t penis-to-vagina. It can be oral, anal, and whatnot. As for why Sparta (and any other place that celebrated similar holidays, such as Saturnalia) didn’t get blasted off the face of the Earth, that’s up in the air.

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          • This is hilarious in a sad, sad way

            Darn, that kind of puts a dampener on things. “Normal pregnancy is thought to be associated with a state of tolerance to the foreign antigens of the fetus, whereas in preeclamptic women this immunological tolerance might be hampered. The present study shows that oral sex and swallowing sperm is correlated with a diminished occurrence of preeclampsia which fits in the existing idea that a paternal factor is involved in the occurrence of preeclampsia.” -http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=1340021
            Man, that sounds like oral sex has a legitimate health benefit!

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        • “I was also wondering if anyone would give a solid definition of sodomy because clearly Sodom wasn’t just destroyed for engaging in homosexual sex…Sparta would have been destroyed as well if that was the case.”

          And Athens too, and Macedonia, and Thrace, and much of the ancient world.

          God had a reason for destroying Sodom (and Gomorrah). I am not God, not even a history professor, just a humble student of history. As I said, and you said, it wasn’t just homosexuality and deviant sex. The deciding factor would be that S&G were close to the Israelites, the chosen people, and in a position to corrupt them. Sparta was not. If God chose Athens rather than Jerusalem, then He would have blown away Sparta.

          Or maybe not. The Spartans were dispite their heathen ways, disciplined and lawful folk. They stuck to their own rules and never corrupted or interfered with the lives of their conquests.

          “You also need to back up the extreme and negative claims you make. Has there been some sort of demographic analysis of which orientations help more charities? You seem to forget that there are gay couples who adopt children, and logically, facing persecution would inspire one to help others rise from their less than ideal situations, be it related to starvation, sickness, poverty, or anything else, would it not?”

          I would expect that. I would expect gays to follow the same logic as leftist Jews and side with the underdogs of society. However misguided their actions, they were motivated by an honest empathy. However, gays (especially the males) are famous for being selfish almost to the point of self-destruction. It’s more than a “no kids no future” attitude, as gays do adopt kids.

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          • //I would expect that. I would expect gays to follow the same logic as leftist Jews and side with the underdogs of society.//

            Who says all Jews are liberals? Hell, isn’t the stereotype Jewish man a conservative? Can you not make up your mind as to whether or not you completely believe stereotypes to be 100% true or not? Or do you believe that Conservatives are just the good guys and everyone else is evil, regardless of anything else, even if the man is a gay Christian or a conservative Jew?

            //However misguided their actions, they were motivated by an honest empathy. However, gays (especially the males) are famous for being selfish almost to the point of self-destruction. It’s more than a “no kids no future” attitude, as gays do adopt kids.//

            Yeah, you’ve yet to explain your insane logic as to how and why gay people are greedy and selfish. Just because they can’t/don’t want to reproduce? Is that really a bad thing? They DO adopt kids, you even mentioned that, they adopt kids who’s parents (probably Christian) left behind because they were too busying drinking their asses off (isn’t stereotyping and thinking you’re right fun?), so again, HOW THE FUCK ARE THEY SELFISH?

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          • This is hilarious in a sad, sad way

            Humble student of history indeed. Try citing something, anything in what you spout onto this page.
            Did you know that God has a plan for all people? The vast majority of the world is not Jewish (known as God’s chosen people; they also happened to deny His son, Jesus). God’s plan applies to ALL of us.
            Stop making up human waste on the spot and trying to validate your sick prejudices by seeing them in text. Talk to real people of different walks of life and different orientations and preferences. We are all God’s creation; He created intelligent life and imbued in all of us a free will and a free mind to live not as zombies. Stop thinking that people different from you are inherently and irrevocably evil, stupid, selfish, and dangerous, unless you are willing to apply that to yourself.

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  • hahhaaaaa…really people? you are living in the 15th century. when will you wake up and realize that life is all you have? you are too scared to realize that there is nothing after that, so you believe in ‘christ’ or whatever deity suits your unconscious needs. get real kiddos.

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    • Say what you want about the 15th century. At least it had no AIDS.

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      • The Comedian

        Just because it hadn’t been discovered then doesn’t mean it wasn’t running around.

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  • It’s not rocket science.

    There has always been a connection between leasuire, laziness, and sexual deviancy. The immoral AIDS-riddem 1970s were also a period of economic uncertainty coupled with laziness-as-a-religion. The tighter 1980s improved public morality somewhat; people were too busy working, “making a buck”, going to church, and fearing AIDS to be sodomizing all that much.

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    • for some reason i don’t belive you talk from expirience as much as from what you expect.

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      • What’s that supposed to mean, young punk?

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        • The Comedian

          It means you’re talking out of your ass. People like you deal so much in absolutes it’s amazing you somehow haven’t killed yourselves off. There’s correlation, and then there’s causation. You and your ilk seem hellbent on thinking that correlation EQUALS causation.

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    • This is hilarious in a sad, sad way

      HIV/AIDS exploded in the 80s…
      People didn’t even know the name of the retrovirus that was infecting so many people until 1981-1983.
      Clearly the increased morality you’re referring to didn’t pan out.

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      • AIDS got its start in the freewheeling 1960s and 1970s.

        To quote someone else, “Just because it hadn’t been discovered then doesn’t mean it wasn’t running around.”

        The fact that AIDS was not properly identifed until 1983 means that nobody was afraid of it, and that too many people had this modern delious that promiscuous sex has no consequences.

        Thanks to increased knowledge of AIDS, promiscuity IMPLODED in the 1980s. Plus normal people were thinking not how to “expand their minds” but rather about work, money, and family. There was still the fringe that kept the “no-consequences” mentality.

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        • The Comedian

          //Thanks to increased knowledge of AIDS, promiscuity IMPLODED in the 1980s. Plus normal people were thinking not how to “expand their minds” but rather about work, money, and family. There was still the fringe that kept the “no-consequences” mentality.//

          My quote was directed at YOU. ANYTHING discovered when it comes to a virus will EXPLODE (implode is the reverse of explode buddy). Who’s to say that AID’s WASN’T running around in the 15th century? It was just discovered in the 80′s, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t around longer than that.

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        • This is hilarious in a sad, sad way

          To date there is still a higher population of heterosexuals (you’re not seeming to get this means STRAIGHT people) with HIV/AIDS. So who is even capable of spreading HIV to a greater number a people, heterosexuals or homosexuals?
          25 million people in the world have died from AIDS related complications *since* 1981. http://data.unaids.org/pub/GlobalReport/2006/2006_GR_CH02_en.pdf
          This means many are still being infected; it’s not disease that has faded away, no matter what you will claim about the 1980s being a time of improved morals.
          Just as you can’t give any concrete evidence about people of a certain orientation being more selfish than others, you have no way of presenting that a certain time period was more moral than another.
          (Quick correction to The Comedian) HIV is speculated to have mutated from the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) when a hunter somehow got infected blood on him. Earliest speculated date mutation is 19th century to early 20th century. On the plus side people living in the 15th century was definitely occupied with the Black Death, so everything’s a trade-off.

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          • “To date there is still a higher population of heterosexuals (you’re not seeming to get this means STRAIGHT people) with HIV/AIDS. So who is even capable of spreading HIV to a greater number a people, heterosexuals or homosexuals?”

            You brought this up, not me.

            Numerically, it’s the heteros that have the greater chance of spreading HIV. However, there are two other factors here, promiscuity and anality. More about this later.

            “25 million people in the world have died from AIDS related complications *since* 1981.”

            In the world as a whole, and mostly Africa. Not in America.

            “This means many are still being infected; it’s not disease that has faded away, no matter what you will claim about the 1980s being a time of improved morals.”

            Again I was talking about AIDS and morality in America, and the West in general, not Africa. It’s apples and oranges. As I said, promiscuity and anality are the prime movers of AIDS. In America, these two traits are found together mostly in male homosexuals. There are promiscuous heteros too, and they are more at risk for AIDS than monogamists, but not nearly as much as gay men. Lesbians are also rarely at risk, because unlike gay males they are not as promiscious or into anal sex.

            Africa is a different story. Due to cultural differences, promiscuity and anal sex are very common among all sexual groups. Bisexuality is more common. Condom use is “unmanly” and a “white imperalist plot” to depopulate Africa. These four reasons go a long way to explain why there is so much AIDS in Africa.

            I never claimed that AIDS went away. It never did. Imagine how much more prevalent AIDS/HIV would be, had there not been such “hysteria” about it in the 1980s!

            “Just as you can’t give any concrete evidence about people of a certain orientation being more selfish than others, you have no way of presenting that a certain time period was more moral than another.”

            Gay males do contribute less to charities than any other orientation; that’s a fact not a stereotype. As for morality, check out crime statistics and the like throughout history.

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          • //Again I was talking about AIDS and morality in America, and the West in general, not Africa. It’s apples and oranges. As I said, promiscuity and anality are the prime movers of AIDS. In America, these two traits are found together mostly in male homosexuals. There are promiscuous heteros too, and they are more at risk for AIDS than monogamists, but not nearly as much as gay men. Lesbians are also rarely at risk, because unlike gay males they are not as promiscious or into anal sex.//

            Yeah, that’s total bullshit. You’ve never met a gay person. Hell, I’m willing to bet you refuse to be in the same building as a gay person, so how the fuck do you know ANYTHING about gays? Do you and Stevie copy notes from the same book of lunacy? The only difference between a gay guy and a straight guy is that one likes males sexually, and the other likes females sexually. There are monogamous homosexual men, and there are lesbians that will party every night, and both are equal. When you’ve talked to every gay guy in the world and got an honest response from them, THEN you can talk about this subject. Until then, go bash your head in a wall or something.

            //I never claimed that AIDS went away. It never did. Imagine how much more prevalent AIDS/HIV would be, had there not been such “hysteria” about it in the 1980s!//

            The ‘hysteria’ died down, and that was it. ALL kinds of panic goes up when it’s first introduced, and as time goes by, it goes DOWN. Look at Swine Flu, or Scurvy, or *gasp* AIDS! It’s still prevalent, it just so happens that being better armed about a disease allows people to combat it properly. For scurvy, you just need vitamin C, for AIDS you just have to get tested and wear a raincoat in bed unless you’re bangin’ your wife or husband (AIDs aren’t just ‘magically’ created). As for swine flu, people learned that even though there were tons of people being infected, the death count had barely gone past the double digits because it was easily treatable and the people who died lived in areas where medical assistance was terrible. Seriously, over a year and a half ago people were going bonkers about it, and now people hardly talk about it. People are still being infected by these diseases, it just so happens that with information, people are no longer worried that much by them, at least compared to when they first showed up.

            //Gay males do contribute less to charities than any other orientation; that’s a fact not a stereotype. As for morality, check out crime statistics and the like throughout history.//

            Fact my ass. Where’d you find this ‘fact’? Your ass? How do you know? You don’t, you’re lying to yourself and others, so go away.

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          • This is hilarious in a sad, sad way

            “. A 2009 study of American college undergraduates, the large majority heterosexual, found that one in four reported having had anal sex,[2] while the figures for the general population range between thirty and forty percent.” First paragraph on Wikipedia on the page Anal Sex.
            Wow, anywhere from 25 to 40% of the general, sexually active, and mostly heterosexual population. You were saying?
            //Again I was talking about AIDS and morality in America, and the West in general, not Africa. It’s apples and oranges. //
            No, it’s fellow human beings.
            //As I said, promiscuity and anality are the prime movers of AIDS. In America, these two traits are found together mostly in male homosexuals. There are promiscuous heteros too, and they are more at risk for AIDS than monogamists, but not nearly as much as gay men.//
            A significant number of homosexual men are monogamous as well. Also, I think you made up a word, ‘anality’ is coming up as incorrect on spell check. And again, you have failed to cite any credible source for your generalizations.
            //Africa is a different story. Due to cultural differences, promiscuity and anal sex are very common among all sexual groups. Bisexuality is more common. Condom use is “unmanly” and a “white imperalist plot” to depopulate Africa. These four reasons go a long way to explain why there is so much AIDS in Africa.//
            Wow, yes, people who don’t live in the “West” just love reveling in the continual deaths of loved ones. Condoms aren’t used as much as they need to be because impoverished places can’t afford continuous use, and not enough is being done to spread a message of safer sex habits. Anal sex is also not an explanation for the millions of children born with HIV. And surely the only one who could come up with such off-base, outlandish ideas of a “white imperialist plot” is yourself. I would hope that the majority of the world has more common sense.
            //Gay males do contribute less to charities than any other orientation; that’s a fact not a stereotype. As for morality, check out crime statistics and the like throughout history.//
            You created the stereotype and now insist it’s a fact that can be traced to somewhere credible. Since morality is opinionated and each person has different standards of what is right or appropriate (we got past the whole showing an ankle is slutty behavior a while ago), there can not exist a proper way to measure it.

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  • I would be on guard for increased nose-picking also.

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  • this article is so funny, i honestly thought it was copied from The Onion. especially the picture of a hand with lotion squirted in it!? then the guy with his hand in his pants! then the young woman’s legs. HILARIOUS. honestly, anyone spending this much time on this topic is either a master comedian, or completely obsessed. judging by all the comments, you people actually take yourselves seriously?? WTF

    the absolute BEST part is the graph with spank numbers projected to 2040! HAAAA HAAAA thank you thank you thank you, i just saw Robin Williams live last night, no lie. this article is almost as good.

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