Posted on 07/09/2002 1:12:54 PM PDT by 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.
Isn't it great?
They want to be their "friends" Touching, and probably a good idea in some alternate universe..
If you had been born even earlier, those exposed legs of your youth would have been just as shocking as the bare midriff of today.
PS: I have many fond memories from the Radford Drive-In Movie on the other side of the bridge. :-)
That's pretty self-evident.
??? Are you serious? I think I'd rather have my..... pierced.
You don't mean eyebrow, do you?
Amen.
You people are so integrated into the double standard, you don't even know what you're saying.
You're acting as if it's ok for guys to want and enjoy sex, but like something out medieval time, it's a sin for women to..
Quarterback sleeps with whole cheerleading squad? Good for him.
Cheerleader sleeps with anyone - she's a slut.
Get real.
....and you don't think there's anything wrong with you with assigning sexuality to a 4yr old.
Yeah, I'd trust your judgement.
I work with an 18 year-old lesbian who wears revealing outfits and flirts with me. Go figure that out.
Franhly, as a 25-year-old man, I'm torn. I like attractive women wearing next to nothng. (I hate it when fat or ugly girls do).
On the other hand, I'm a social conservative who dissaproves of such things, especially when my younger sister is wearing revealing outfits. (I almost beat up the first boy I caught leering at my sis when she was 13. It was a good thing my sister grabbed the bike lock.)
ironically, my sister, who is now 21, is beginning to have reservations. She is a camp counselor and is revolted by 8 or 10 year old girls dressing like Brtiney Spears.
As for the double standard, blame nature or God or whatever you want. Girls become pregnant, guys don't. Both get STD's.
You're not living in 1500. We do have modern birth control.
Look at the supermodels.
It's really time that straight men who like sex get to pick them :)
At least she'll be able to outrun the not-so-fleet.
<)B^)
Actually, the problem is the many airheads who are floating around out there who see nothing wrong with the way that things are today. The girls do have a problem. They are not getting the training they need to ward off the evil spells like you.
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