Our women damaged, not promiscuous
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By Deborah Coddington
Now that we've had a good snigger at the Durex survey which purported to show New Zealand women are the "most promiscuous in the world", with an average of 20.4 sexual partners, can we put aside the jokes and think about why this might be?
Could it possibly be connected with another international survey, out this week from the World Health Organisation, showing New Zealand girls are more likely to be sexually abused than females from all the other 11 developed countries surveyed?
This shameful revelation, coming as it does on top of facts showing New Zealanders care little for the wellbeing of children - physical abuse, unwanted teenage pregnancies, abortion statistics - is no surprise to anyone who, in the last few decades, has had anything to do with the sexual abuse of children.
But this is a subject we don't talk about. It happens in our own homes, next door, at school, at friends' homes, but we turn away and change the subject. We'd rather fuss about false accusations of sexual abuse (which do happen, albeit rarely), and make national heroes of those who publicly campaign for acquittal.
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