Kids maturing faster due to diet...and porn?
Categories: Nutrition & Supplements
According to doctors, the number of children experiencing an early onset to puberty has doubled over the last 10 years. A recent survey of Chinese children found that, in fact, the average age children began puberty had dropped to 11 -- down from 13 just a decade earlier. Some boys are starting to see secondary sexual characteristics as young as 9 1/2, with girls developing even younger -- sometimes at only 8-years-old.
So what's causing the trend?
Some blame the diet of Guangzhou, the Chinese province where the study was conducted, as it's full of proteins and essential elements that can accelerate growth -- while others think the cause is Western fast food. Still others point to improper sex education -- noting that today's kids have access to more pornographic material, which makes them sexually precocious.
While I can understand how diet would have an effect on growth, it seems these doctors are suggesting that viewing sexually explicit material also encourages the biological process of puberty -- which seems hard to believe.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
marcie0305 9-05-2007 @ 8:02PM
Growth hormones in milk.
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James 9-06-2007 @ 2:52PM
LOL.
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Belinda 9-06-2007 @ 4:01PM
I think a it's a combination of things that cause this. I think the growth is from the different hormones that the farmers are feeding their animals. And I think the promiscurity comes from the sexually explicit lyrics in rap and other music and what they see when they watch cable tv and music videos.
Children as young as 8 and 9 are accused of rape now. That can clearly be traced to what they see with their little eyes and hear with their little ears. Shame on parents for not monitoring their children's activities.
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Christopher 9-07-2007 @ 9:40AM
Frankly, I have yet to see a child who has committed 'rape' (something that I actually don't think exists for children). I have seen them playing sexual games and one child touches the other more than the other child wants them to, but in 99% of the cases where that happens, the other child stops when the first pushes them away or tells them to stop touching them, as long as they were taught that when someone tells you to stop touching them, you are to stop.
Secondly, promiscuity does not come from rap music, movies, porn, etc. Most, if not all, children are JUST AS INTERESTED IN SEX AS YOU ARE, coming from my own experiences during childhood, when I was 'sexually active' with other children at the age of 3!
Children are sexual creatures, just as much as adults are, if not MORE than adults are, and it's time to allow them to be sexual under the watchful eye of their parents with whoever they want, regardless of the age of the other person.
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kh 9-21-2007 @ 10:53AM
Christopher I pray you are not a parent nor ever will be and that you will seek professional help.
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noneofyourdam 9-07-2007 @ 3:55PM
belinda your really dumb to accuse rap for making kids more sexually active...
sure big booty girls shake it on their videos, but you see sexual content everywhere these days..
remember sex sells?
yeah, you can see half naked girls everywhere including ads on billboards.
seems everything is raps fault these days...
thats like saying the united states are the problem because since bill clinton cheated on his wife
amercians arent faithfull anymore. (and even THAT makes more sense than you stupid theory.)
get a clue..
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Nick Lombardo 9-07-2007 @ 10:58PM
I don't think that porn can make someone do what their not supposed to do. I watch porn a lot and I haven't wanted to rape anybody Oh sure it makes me horney as hell but I don't have to commit a crime to grt laid!!!!
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Sally 9-08-2007 @ 12:10AM
It does seem a stretch to say porn affects the biological/physical maturity of kids nowadays, but I'd say the pornification of our society/culture (aka the mainstreaming of pornographic images, whether it's the *easy* assess to porn via the Internet and TV to images in ads to movies, videos, etc. displaying certain sexual acts) certainly has an effect on children's sexuality. You have young boys who have never even touched a girl being molded to find images reflected in pornographic images (often man as dominator and woman as submissive) a turn on. He hasn't even jerked it yet and he's stimulated by watching a woman get spanked and her hair pulled! (and that's the *fluffier* stuff nowadays, of course). Same goes for young girls, who are still molded via culture that their value is derived from their body and how it pleases men. This can not only come from popular videos, but from all sorts of places within our culture. In fact, this stuff affects adult women and men as well, not just pre-teens. I believe we all have an inate sexuality that - while it can be *enhanced* through what we learn within our culture - becomes very comprimised by images marketed and sold to make a buck (i.e. porn industry, music industry, advertisements, etc.). There is absolutly nothing wrong with children being curious with each other and their bodies ( I remember playing "house" with a childhood friend when I was young and we pretended to "sleep" together as husband and wife, even thuough we were two girls...nothing crazy happend, but again, we were mimicking the ideas and customs about what adults do when playing a game reflecting being adults). BUT what happens when other images and ideals (i.e pornographic, hardcore) are seeping into kid's brains? What do they mimick then? How do they want to act with each other and how then do they view each other's bodies and sex? How does this "comprimise" their *inate* sexuality, which is indeed developing at a young age?
As for saying a child can't rape, I'd say it depends on what age you're talking about. There have certainly been reports of children molesting and sodomizing other children, whether younger or the same age as them. Often, these kids were molested themselves. In other cases, maybe they do not understand the sexual dynamic of what they are doing...Then again, rape is often an issue of power - not sex. So if a young kid is feling powerless and uses a form of sexual aggression (whether it's been inflicted on him/her or something he saw on TV) on another child, he/she may not comprehend what they're doing as necessarily sexual as much as, say, a college-aged guy might when he's slipping a ruffie into some woman's drink...
OK, I rambled a lot. What was the topic again?? ;)
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Myke 9-08-2007 @ 12:12AM
c'mon now people... they inject chickens with growth hormones. plants such as fruits and vegetables are soaked in pesticides and growth chemicals. sex sells and has becomes a normal everyday sight in American culture. Fast Food. constant sugary diets.
we are a species with no real natural predators, in which even the average american IQ has dropped in recent years. the average human life span is continuesly getting shorter.
is anybody really surprised kids are hitting puberty earlier? my father and i talked about this. he didn't hit puberty until he was close to 14. i was 11.
anybody even think of the possibility it could be a form of either human evolution (or de-evolution for that matter?)
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bevan norkin 9-08-2007 @ 7:16AM
it is a disgrace that children are exposed to sexually explicit content just about everywhere they look and listen children need a real childhood where they learn to play and learn how to be with eachother in a nice way learning respect for one another that children are going through puberty at an earlier age does mean expecially for girls that they are educated to the complications of sexual activity and boys need the same lecture of off limits this is a fast track society and children even wind up in college but if they do not have the play time with other children their age they can wind up MENTALLY OUT OF WACK no one is born knowing how to behave or what the world is all about without guidance
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dannwill 9-10-2007 @ 11:20AM
People get beat up at wife swapping clubs and stuff so porn and polyandry are not all that natural.
It is money that is driving kids to an early puberty. They associate financial success with sexuality inadvertantly and want the best for themselves.
There is another point to be made, as well, that if a person secretly percieves that his or her maturity has nine or ten years less time, perhaps, say, because of constant chemistry bombardment or stress, and that no immediate solution is forthcoming, chemical changes occur in their body and they hit puberty a year or two younger.
Back to the land will not cut it. If we want to mate older, the time has come to conquer our bodies through knowledge, not chemicals or brute force.
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Don 9-08-2007 @ 12:32PM
when are people going to wake up and admit that the moral character of people and even a nation are based on what scripture says. I know you liberals don't like that but it's true.
Pornography has a huge effect on males as they are made that it only takes a look. Females go by touch.
Look at the way women are dressing. They show way too much and these same people are allowing and teaching their children that it's okay. After all look what Mommy and others are wearing. Then the women cry rape. I'm not saying it justifies the CRIME or that these perverted individuals should be let go. In fact, I think the liberal judges and attorneys have ruined our justice system by allowing them out. However, women and men that think it's okay are causing this behavior to escalate. Permissiveness in a society has bankrupted this nation and it's people
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sightedone 9-08-2007 @ 1:20PM
it is the art from history the nude statues and nude females in painting from grade 1 to grade 12 the world authorities has taught all of us as kids that public nudity or nudity to or in the public is "ok" while at the same time teaching us public nudity is improper and illegal, so which is right? Trust only GOD as only GOD is right and perfect and this world is surely passing away before GOD as we speak.
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sightedone 9-08-2007 @ 1:29PM
it is the art from history: the nude statues and nude females in paintings from grade 1 to grade 12, the world authorities have taught all of us as kids that public nudity or nudity to or in the public is "ok" while at the same time teaching us that public nudity is improper and illegal, so which is right? Trust only GOD as only GOD is right and perfect and this world is surely passing away before GOD as Jesus said it would even as we speak.
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tamara 9-14-2007 @ 8:43PM
MY input on this ...THINK ABOUT IT ...OUR KIDS ONLY KNOW WHAT WE TEACH THEM...THEY LEARN WITH WHAT IS AVAILABLE TO THEM ..T.V. TEACHERS FRIENDS SOMETIMES NOT SO GOOD FRIENDS.... AS FOR PORN... HUH ... STRIP CLUBS.. MAGAZINES " RIGHT BESIDE THE CANDY STAND AT THE CHECKOUT COUNTER..... ALL TEACHINGS OF "MEN" WHO PUBLISH THIS GARBAGE ..CHILDREN DID NOT PUT THIS IN OUR SOCIETY.. ADULTS DID... THESE PEOPLE SHOULD THINK OF IT AS IF ALL CHILDREN WERE THEIR OWN CHILDREN BEFORE THEY LET THIS MAGAZINE BE PUBLISHED OR ALLOW THIS PROGRAM TO BE ON TV... HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH.... THE PERVERTED MIND OF THAT CHILD KILLER COULD BE AT HAND HERE .WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO TRIGGER SUCH ACTION IN A PERSON LIKE THAT: NOT ADVERTISEING GOOD CHARACTER WAS IT ? .....BUT PORNO POSSIBLY... YOU IDIOTS NEED TO GET A CLUE AND STOP WORRYING ABOUT MONEY... BUT THE WELFAIR OF OUR CHILDRENS MIND AND FUTURES . LET THEIR LOVE LIFE BE A NATURAL OCCURANCE IN THAT WAY. HOW IT SHOULD BE.
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JOHN 9-08-2007 @ 3:09PM
EVERY PARENT WANTS TO GIVE THEIR CHILD EVERYTHING THEY EVER WANTED OR DIDN'T HAVE. YOU CAN TAKE ANY ANGLE AND MAKE IT SOUND GOOD.
MUSIC, TV, GAME SYSTEMS, PORN, DRUGS. THEY ALL MAKE GREAT DEBATES. THE NUMBER ONE PROBLEM IS STILL THE PARENT. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY, TO INSTILL CHARACTER, MORALS AND FAITH IN YOUR CHILDREN. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO CHECK OUT THEIR FRIENDS, TEACHERS AND HABITS. IF YOU DO YOUR JOB THEY WILL BE FINE. IF YOU DON'T WELL YOUR KIDS THE ONE FROM A SPLIT HOME AND A TATOO ACROSS THE TOP OF HER BUT.
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JOHN 9-08-2007 @ 3:21PM
HOW GOOD OF A PARENT ARE YOU? WHAT WOULD YOUR CHILD CHOOSE?
APPLE/ CANDY
CARTOON/ PORN
BIKE/ PLAYSTATION
FAMILY/ FRIENDS
GOOD/ BAD
MARRAGE/ DIVORCE
DRUGS/ BOOZE
SEX/ ABSTENCE
BY WHAT YOU EXPOSE YOUR CHILDREN TO YOU ARE MAKING ALL OF THESE CHOICES AND MORE FOR THEM.
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SB 9-09-2007 @ 12:10AM
I have heard over and over again that if a child is molested that it will almost certainly molest other children or murder or kill and torture animals and other shit, i have heard it repeatedly and pretty much want to say that i was molested when i was 6 years old and am now 19, i have never had any urge to hurt a child, an animal, or any other human being. I am not promiscuous and am perfectly capable of investing myself in a relationship. I am in college and consider myself happy, i dont even think about that fateful day when i was 6, only when i am asked and need to make an example of myself, this being the first time. Guess im the lucky kid that got molested huh?
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CC 9-09-2007 @ 11:30AM
Christopher, spoken as the true pedophile that you are. You should be castrated.
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T. 9-09-2007 @ 6:55PM
I would just like to mention that the prevalence of pornography could very easily affect the onset of puberty. When a person looks at pornographic material, they get sexually excited and hormones are released. These hormones directly affect our bodies, after all, hormones are what dictate how our bodies grow and develop. Pornography is a very treacherous evil in our lives. It teaches and encourages the objectification of the human body and teaches that people are only a means to satisfy one's person needs and hungers.
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