Hugh Hefner says it best..
“To make such a big to-do over something as innocent as those photos..I think it’s a reflection of how schizophrenic America is about sexuality.”
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We should be encouraging young girls to have fun, get educated on the world and how to manage for themselves and stay teens not bed hop until they mature physically that is really twenty-one when the brain finally quits growing and maturity to comprehend and make good judgement is in place.
the brain’s gray matter has a final growth spurt around the ages of 11 to 13 in the frontal lobes of the brain, the regions that guide human intellect and planning.
But it seems to take most of the teen years for youngsters to link these new cells to the rest of their brains and solidify the millions of connections that allow them to think and behave like adults.
At the same time, the release of a cascade of adolescent hormones during and after puberty causes other areas of the brain, particularly the amygdala, which governs basic emotional response, to fire up or expand.
The result is that teens look at things differently than adults. This has tremendous implications for education, mental health, drug abuse and moral and legal responsibility of adolescents.
Deborah Yurgelun-Todd of Harvard Medical School and McClean Hospital in Boston has studied how teenagers and adults respond differently to the same images. Shown a set of photos of people’s faces contorted in fear, adults named the right emotion, but teens seldom did, often saying the person was angry.
When Yurgelun-Todd and her team did the same test while doing functional magnetic resonance imaging of the subject’s brains, they found a stark difference in the parts being used. Adults used both the advanced prefrontal cortex and the more basic amygdala to evaluate what they had seen; younger teens relied entirely on the amygdala, while older teens (top age in the group was 17) showed a progressive shift toward using the frontal area of the brain.
“Just because teens are physically mature, they may not appreciate the consequences or weigh information the same way as adults do,” Yurgelun-Todd said. “Good judgment is learned, but you can’t learn it if you don’t have the necessary hardware.”
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