THE RANT: Just when did our daughters start dressing like hookers?

Capital Hill Blue ^ | July 8, 2002 | Doug Thompson

[Stand Watch Listen]

God knows I’m not a prude. As a teenager, I hid Playboys under my mattress, ogled the lingerie ads in the Sears Catalog and even knew about the secret place at my high school where you could look into the girls’ locker room shower.

On most Saturday nights, I was in the back seat of my ’57 Ford at the Autodrome drive-in in Radford, Virginia, wrestling with some young lady, trying to score the teenage sexual equivalent of a home run (funny how we learned early on to equate sports and sex).

In the immortal words of Meatloaf in his anthem to raging teenage hormones, the goal was to “see paradise by the dashboard light.”

Memories of those angst-filled days came back over the 4th of July weekend while sitting under a refreshment stand tent at a carnival in East St. Louis, Illinois, watching too many young girls parade by in the accepted attire of the times.

After an hour of so of this, I had to wonder: How in the hell does a teenage boy today keep his hormones under control? Lord, I had enough trouble when a glimpse of young female leg above the knee would satisfy the lustful cravings of a young man’s desire.

But now, with bare-midriff tops, low slung jeans, low-cut haltertops, thongs and see through blouses, there ain’t a hell of a lot left to the imagination.

We’re not talking about just 17, 18 or 19 year old hardbodies here, but 12 and 13 year olds wearing shorts low enough for the tops of thongs to show and blouses with enough open buttons to show what they may one day have to show.

Add to that enough navel, nose and eyebrow rings to start a jewelry store and you start to wonder just when it became acceptable for young women to dress like hookers.

Like most men, I enjoy looking at sexy young things, although at my age, “young” begins at about age 45. But I wonder if young girls shouldn’t at least go through puberty before letting all that they may or may not have hang out for public view.

Should a 15-year-old girl be parading around in public wearing jeans cut so low that they require shaving of pubic hair or shorts that ride high enough in back to show off butt cheeks? Are parents allowing this or are these nymphets changing into their CFM attire after they leave home?

If current teenage attire can shock even a dirty old man like me, has it gone to far?

I don’t have an answer. I do find it unsettling. If I had a teenage daughter right now, I’d probably lock her away until a safer age, say about 30 or maybe even 40.

[ventana]

Sure, the mom's allow it. They buy it, they let their kids watch anything on tv, they want their daughters to be viewed as sexy. Women's lib, ain't it great? V's wife.

[lady lawyer]

Hi V's Wife:

I think one of the greatest ironies of our time is that -- in the name of women's liberation -- our young women are being trained to act like the fantasies of the most selfish, irresponsible men. Someday, they will wake up old, used, and alone. It remains a man's world in that sense.

[untenured]

I still remember that some Freeper (I can't remember who, unfortunately) once said that his daughter was preparing to go out dressed like this. He ordered her to go back to her room and put on something more modest. When she demanded to know why, he said "Because no daughter of mine is going out dressed to service the fleet."

[Icthus]

"..the mom's allow it.."

That is the underlying problem with today's kids....total lack of parental guidance. Today's parents want to be their kids "friend".

[twyn1]

I have a teenaged daughter who values herself enough to NOT dress like a slut. She is ummm...well-endowed... but chooses to dress modestly and conservatively. She came home the other night from a carnival and told me that many of the pre-teen girls were wearing way-too-short shorts and little tube-tops and she was disgusted. Do parents think it's "cute" for their daughters to dress like that ?? -- it's really sick if you ask me--kids grow up too fast in this society as it is...why push sexuality on them at such a young age. Why would any loving parent allow their young daughter to go out in a top that says "boy candy" or "sex goddess" ?? These are kids who are not old enough to buy their own clothes, so the parents have to be a part of it. I just don't understand it at all.

[RAT Patrol]

Good point!

[RAT Patrol]

Wise words in post #6.

[goldstategop]

Its the Britney Spears look girls today think looks both hot and cool at the same time. They want to be boy magnets. Now there's the irony for women: they've desperately tried to stop pleasing men and begin living their own lives only to find in the end they craved men after all.

[Atlas Sneezed]

I wonder if today's (generally fat) moms are simply living vicariously through the notion that their daughter is attracting the attention of men that the mother knows she would never be able to attract.

[RAT Patrol]

I think one of the greatest ironies of our time is that -- in the name of women's liberation -- our young women are being trained to act like the fantasies of the most selfish, irresponsible men. Someday, they will wake up old, used, and alone. It remains a man's world in that sense. Just wanted to repeat your post.

[RAT Patrol]

"Because no daughter of mine is going out dressed to service the fleet." LOL!

[robowombat]

I once asked my 17 year old step daughter why she spent over an hour grooming herself before going out to look like (my words) "a young street walker anticipating a busy evening." After getting past sputtering rage at such an imputation the best she could offer was that her coiffure was in becuase it did push the envelop and look disreputable. This was circa 1988 when the nudity fad hadn't arrived and young woman preferred excessive make up and skin tight garb. I suspect the same rationale is at work today. "Looking bad is looking good"

[Doctor Stochastic]

I think Polybius voiced similar complaints.

[goldstategop]

Exactly. Women want to be as sexually agressive as men in the dating game. You'll never hear them admit it but they like and need and want men and sex as much as men like and need and want women and sex.

[Don Myers]

One generation builds upon the last generation. Morality and mores change. The influence of the media brings change while professing to simply mirror society. While every Saturday night, you wrestled with some young lady, the young men of today don't have to wrestle. The young "ladies" give it out freely.

The parents of the young "ladies" look at what their daughters wear and what they do, and excuse it by saying we did the same things or worse. They also say that we did those things and look at how we turned out.

As a consequence, the young "ladies" of today look like hookers and act like them. That is partially why marriage is on the skids in this nation.

The completely loosening of morality has produced a generation that freely uses all manner of drugs and practice free, unattached sex. This is the new generation. Hope you like it. The next generation should be really interesting, indeed, if the nation is still around.

[Wm Bach]

Should a 15-year-old girl be parading around in public wearing jeans [skirt] cut so low that they require shaving of pubic hair?

Seen that.

[maxwell]

"Because no daughter of mine is going out dressed to service the fleet."

BWAAAAHAHAHA! Good one...

[Phantom Lord]

80's Chics!

[E Rocc]

you start to wonder just when it became acceptable for young women to dress like hookers.

About a hundred years ago, the same type of comment was made about women who dared show their ankles in public.

-Eric