[mlmr]

Where are the mothers today??

[Wolfie]

Damn, Mrs. Web's got it going on. I've never really been all that impress with "advice columnists" but this woman hit it on the head.

[Linda Liberty]

Dear Mrs. Web has always believed that one has sex only when one has a ring, a marriage certificate and of course, the means to pay for a bedroom.

Is she joking, or what?

Maybe there really was a time when a good little girl didn't fool around, married one guy, bore him a bunch of babies, stayed home and talked baby talk, and then died having slept with one man in her life, possibly in childbirth.

But why go back to that time? People used to go to bed at 6:00pm too, because they didn't have electric lights, but now life is better.

Don't you guys think one can lead a moral and happy life by, say, having a series of maybe 20-50 consensual affairs starting whenever you start these days and 26, getting married at 28 (having lived with hubby for 2 years), having 2 or 3 kids in wedlock, having a rewarding career, being monogamous during marriage?

Personally, I think that's a much more rewarding way to live your life. I'm going to have a lot fewer regrets on my deathbed than I would if I'd followed Mrs. Web's advice. And most senior citizens are coming around too-- I hear they are living together out of wedlock in large numbers now.

[MosesKnows]

my mother says is fine with her.

If you've met the child you've also met the parent.

[hellinahandcart]

If your mother is advocating that you, her young daughter, have sex in the bushes, you have many more problems than finding a place to rut.

I don't think the mother IS advocating it. It's never wise to take a young miscreant at her word. The mother is trying to make clear to the daughter that the tail doesn't wag the dog and that HER HOUSE may not be used for teen sex.

My mother knows that I am sleeping with my boyfriend.

This does not necessarily mean Mom is happy about that.

She has told us that we cannot have sex at our house. We can't go to his house either because his grandmother won't let a girl up into his bedroom.

This little twit thinks Mom should be okay with the idea of her daughter having sex with this and all future boyfriends, since giving permission to one means giving permission to all.

This leaves public places as the only choice, which my mother says is fine with her.

Daughter's resentment speaking up here. The real conversaation probably went something like "WAAAAAAAAAH, Mom, you KNOW I'm having sex already, where are we SUPPOSED to go to do it, out in public places where we could be arrested?" to which Mom might have said "If you're that big of a tramp, go **** in the bushes then where the whole world can see you, it's FINE WITH ME! But don't even think of doing it in MY house."

[concerned about politics]

Smart columist. Moral fabric is way too important to take lightly.
If morality were the norm, we wouldn't have mega social programs and the high taxes to go with them.
Too many freedoms of the moral are lost from having to clean up after the slugs and immoral losers of society.

[Commander8]

Item 1.
A real mother would never leave her underaged daughter(15 is too young even to date) alone with a boy let alone allow her to fool around in some alley or park bathroom.
Item 2.
Being involved with the ex-spouses of family members seem like something very painful and I know it's something I would avoid.
Item 3.
Every family has a difficult member. I have aunts and uncles my father has not seen in almost forty years because they think he is a dry well.

[gcruse]

How to Hug a Porcupine

I bought a book one time
titled How To Hug, but I
had to take it back.  It was
the sixth volume in a set
of encyclopedia.