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.
I could be wrong, but it seems to have gotten worse. I know so many women who are married to dysfunctional children. I didn't see this as much with my parents' generation. I wonder if it has to do with the rise in divorce rates or?
They have done studies that show that girls who grow up without fathers are more sexual in order to attract a "daddy" figure. That would explain a lot of this, but...
Even at our church, we have noticed girls coming in with their parents, dressed incredibly immodestly. What is wrong with these parents? I have a four (almost five) year old daughter and we talk about how some people dress nasty and that it's not appropriate. I want her to be aware of it early on, so it won't come as a surprise when she's not allowed to dress like that!
They get angry when the wrong guys look at them.
If you are Justin Timberlake, it's OK.
You hit the nail on the head, at least in my perspective. I was in high school in the mid-70's. Some girls dressed in mini-skirts and tight jeans, but managed to look half-way respectable. It wasn't until Madonna made the scene that I noticed 12-13 yr old girls dressed like streetwalkers. Young that I still was, I thought it was bizarre that parents would let their young daughters dress like that.
Seen that.
Saw exactly that on the French Riviera in 1961 (in my youth). Some of the French teen aged girls would simply leave their jeans completely unbuttoned in front. Don't get too worked up.
[We all know how decadent the French are, don't we?]
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No. Little boys have problems with reconciling their own sexual experience with that of their wives.
Men don't.
Are you really so naive that you don't understand that women lust?
Sorry. This thread won't help you then. Might not want to read it. :)
So.... because it's stain, or sequined or shows off 'way too much skin' lol... I'm a nut job?
It isn't occuring to you to understand that 4 yr olds ARE NOT SEXUAL is it?
Sigh.... What is the matter with you that you READ SEXUALITY into the dress of a 4yr old?????
I think one of the greatest ironies of our time is that...in the name of men's liberation...our young men are being trained to act like Hugh Hefner...becoming the most selfish and irresponsible men...Someday. they will wake up old, used, alone , with genital herpes and HIv, probably childless, certainly detached...It's a man's world afterall.
Reminds me of a song:
Someone played a trick on me
They set me up so perfectly
They gave me their morality
And then changed the rules except for me
Someone must be laugin' now
Although it don't seem funny somehow
How the world's accepting now
What they once would not allow
Back in my younger days
The world has changed in so many ways
-- "Halfway to Heaven" Harry Chapin (1974)
On the other hand, lazy scumbag parents who don't give a crap can reap what they sow. The only thing that bothers me is that I am pretty sure that somehow, some of the money confiscated from me by liberal big scumbag government will end up paying for young, single slut-mothers and their litters.
I really would like to hit it big someday so I can scoot out and find a "tax haven" someplace nice.
The problem is, there aren't many clothing options available. I manage, but it isn't easy to allow her to dress fashionably without looking like a Tenth Avenue hooker. She's a normal teen who wants to fit in. Same thing with my son, who also goes to a Catholic High School. The young men there are all sporting Abercrombie clothes. I incessantly point out to him the fag factor of Abercrombie, and he agrees. So many kids have so much money. Really, we are a nation of idolators. Not to start preaching, but a return to the virtue of modesty is sorely needed. Modesty, chastity, and the most important virtue: charity. Without charity towards each other, men particularly toward what they ask of women, and chastity will be hard to achieve. V's wife.
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