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.
The only "entanglement" I'm in danger of these days is when the tape breaks.
Badda-BOOM!
I think I'd slug her.
That's cruel and unusual punishment.
Here's a word of advice to those who want to "care" about such things...Once a boy has been in the candy store, LET IT GO...It ain't your candy to worry about!
It's spiraling downhill. But it's nothing that an Islamic theocracy can't cure. Not to worry.
Oh, where is your spirit of adventure?
It's all about destroying, not about building up. Can it then be strange that it's most prominent result is the gratification of the male sex drive without any accompanying responsibility (on the man's part)?
I see pictures of families going out for nice occasions in the fifties and early sixties, and I'm struck by how fashion seemed to be dictated by what looked good. Conservative suit for the men, modest and pretty dresses for the women. The swaying of a skirt below the knees is sexy in a subtle ways, in my opinion. If I was appointed fashion czar, I'd immediately turn the clock back 40 years.
(Oops, might get flamed for that. I should add I'd made a few modifications for comfort for women--no need to bring back the girdle, for example. Okay, I should have a flame-resistant post now.)
That and being over 30, I figured I might have missed something :)
I have no idea. But I reckon there is a correlation between girls wearing revealing clothing and boys building stronger forearm muscles.
Reread the thread. Half of the comments are about women.
And I'm not so sure teen pregnancy is a major problem. Unless you think it was a problem for the last 20 centuries.
Bad parenting is a major problem. Even for adults.
That is how it should be. I was born and raised in Ky. That is how it was where and when I grew up. We had a way of dealing with chicken hawks.
That is how many men view the situation. And, many men do not commit because of this fact.
You're a girl, and I'm sorry you feel that way. I assure you, we don't.
Nearly all of it is cultural conditioning. And the culture that tells you that MY sexuality is worthy, while yours is sin, is very wrong....
Luckily, girls/women are coming to understand that their sexuality is good. As good as ours. And they are beginning to exercise ownership of it.
And that's gonna really tick off a whole bunch of guys, and some girls on the 'conservative' FR....
I'm not good at dealing with neanderthals... :)
Who wants a repressed woman anyway?
What the hey, I'll be crude....used to have a Nipponese driver who referred to such as "Yellowtail"...
These are exactly the same things.
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