Love’s Compassion Magazine
male attention. The promiscuous female usually attempts to gain attention and be noticed to fulfill the underlying desire for a loving and secure relationship which can be found in a positive male figure. There is also a significant amount of peer pressure that females encounter in teenage years. Once teens hit the puberty stage and start to have an understanding of the pleasures sex can bring, there is a curiosity and desire to explore not only their bodies, but the bodies of others (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/what_psychologically_c auses_teenagers_to_be_promiscuous/). In a book I once read entitled, “Her Hand in Marriage”, by Douglas Wilson, the author expresses the difference in the temptation to lust between males and females; males like to notice and females like to be noticed. I think most would agree that it is part of human nature to want to be attractive to members of the opposite sex. But when one goes to the extreme to get the attention of another, it can potentially lead to inappropriate behavior. Females can feel even more pressure when they see the way males react to flirtatious women. When women dress more provocatively, it seems that men instantly give these women attention. The problem is these women do not always receive the right kind of attention. 7