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.
Where do I find quantities of said women?
The parent's role is simply undermined. Thanks government.
I live in a city surrounded by many small towns. AT the moment, each city or town has it's own number in the license plate number, so we can tell who comes from where. Every weekend, we see cars filled with young girls from outside the city, cruising the streets looking for action. What do you suppose they are doing when they find the action?
Britney Spears is just a variation on the same theme.
Yes, they will. The guys will use them, but they will not stay with them. But, the girls have no concept of tomorrow.
Last weekend we took my son to a theme park. While waiting for a ride to end, I observed two very cute girls, 14 or 15, dressed as described above flirting with some boys while waiting for the ride. I was trying not to stare but they were cute.
Later we stopped at the beer garden to hear the band and have a cold one. There were several middle aged women, all with store-bought boobs and low halters and big hair. Some of them were, well, cute.
Guess who showed up? You got it, the young girls from the ride. Then I noticed two things. They all had the same flag sticker on their mostly exposed breasts. And I noticed that my wife was really annoyed...
Strange world, eh?
Like it or not, she's a role model to millions of teen girls.
Many mothers buy their daughters shirts with things like "hotty" on them. Yes, the mothers who hit the streets yesterday teach their daughters how to do it today.
The parents are allowing it - with the kids pushing and cajoling and whining and crying and so on.
My oldest daughter will be 14 next month. If I had my druthers, she'd wear four pair of long overalls with a ski parka until she was 26.
When we shopped for an outfit for a school dance this spring, I suggested burlap and duck tape. My wife (She-who-must-be-obeyed) has taste that is a bit better'n mine. She came up with something tasteful, but demure (as if that's a word for what youngsters can wear any more). My daughter knows she can't push the envelope like these other kids -- and all her friends think we're old fashioned and mean.
Jasmine knows not to bug us though. She'll lose out on her privledges if she does.
It all goes back to the parents and how they raise the kids (as opposed to having the kids raise the parents).
Sounds like my daughter...
I can vouch for your post.
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