Comments on: Catholic Girls

By: without catholic girls, life would be a mistake « Mike Kenny

without catholic girls, life would be a mistake « Mike Kenny — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:01:45 +0000

[...] hanson on the apparently incorrect notion of that catholic girls are harder to bed. i comment there: two things leap to [...]

By: ENKI-2

ENKI-2 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:27:34 +0000

This might dovetail with the reason why most satanists (of the LaVeyan variety) are catholics. Very few of my satanist friends were not raised catholic, and indeed the rituals are basically just pastiches of catholic ones. Not being raised with any religion, satanism has no draw for me, since there is nothing to directly rebel from. All in all, though, the catholic church benefits from having its constituents ignore its doctrine, and this may be one of the reasons for imposing an at-face-value impossible and draconian doctrine itself — to encourage the opposite behavior.

By: victor

victor — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:55:21 +0000

I’m guessing it’s because Catholic girls (and let’s not forget the Catholic guys) traditional come out from a culture which (despite the stereotype to the contrary) is not sexually repressive. America, lest we forget, was founded by puritans (the ancestors of the modern day lberal) — the Catholics came over later.

Anyway, Frank Zappa’s song “Catholic Girls” would probably have had been a better choice of a lead-in for this story.

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Tweets that mention Overcoming Bias : Catholic Girls -- Topsy.com — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:54:57 +0000

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By: fburnaby

fburnaby — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:07:11 +0000

Perhaps a catholic girl is much less likely to be taking birth-control. There’s good reason to believe that the pill has an effect on libido. A quick Google search brought me this: http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/01/10/pill/ . I’m honestly not sure (or don’t want to take the time to find out) where to to get more reliable info.

By: NeuroWhoa

NeuroWhoa — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:48:32 +0000

Perhaps the Red Hot Chili Peppers song ‘Catholic School Girls Rule’ is more appropriate in describing this study.

By: TGGP

TGGP — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:59:58 +0000

The Inductivist already noted this. Are Catholics more likely to live in urban areas?

By: Douglas Knight

Douglas Knight — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:05:08 +0000

Joel, being then a dreamer with a guitar but no money, could not have satisfied the stability desired by a young girl wanting a family.

that’s what the lyrics say: “You said your mother told you / All I could give you was a reputation”

By: kevin

kevin — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:09:51 +0000

Mormons aren’t Protestants.

By: kevin

kevin — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:07:06 +0000

Well, I was raised Catholic, and I think most commenters have the wrong idea about how conservative Catholics really are. Catholics are now only slightly more culturally conservative than old mainline Protestant denominations, which are quite liberal.

In contrast, many protestants are evangelicals, charismatics, Adventists, etc. These are very sexually conservative groups (and sex is very important to them). So I suspect the study’s finding would be the same if they looked at one specific mainline Protestant sect, compared to protestants as a whole.