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 "lookalike" thing seems to be a theme with you.
(I was just passing by this thread - I have no interest here whatsoever)
But articles like this certainly help me justify my decision. I'd wager it's harder now to raise a child than it's ever been. Even back in the dark days of crib death, war, famine, etc. Family values, as trite a phrase as it is, seem to be viewed as an archaic notion, not suited for our time. Enlightened, are we? I think not. I blame the rise of liberalism for this.
Sorry for rambling. Today quite possibly will end up being one of the worst, if not the worst, days of my life. It's a loooonnnng story.
"now they all want to see who can be the sassiest trollop."
What a shame.
We have a situation today in which the young people are being taught to be completely hedonistic. If, if they marry, it is much later in life with, at the moment, a fifty percent success rate. I would not be surprised if drugs are not legalized in the US. The entire face of America is being changed for the worse, with growth of big government and the welfare state a constant situation. Our institutions and our people are corrupt.
I could go on, but I believe that we have been corrupted enough in our society that it will take more than one generation to fix the situation. It took more than one generation to get to where we are now.
Considering that it took two or three generations to get to where we are now, I do not think that we have reached the point yet where things might turn around. It might take another generation or more before things do begin turning around. It will take maybe three or four generations after that before the situation gets back to where this country will again be where it was not all of that long ago.
If I am correct, how do you believe that the next generation will be better?
Oh... Glorias and roachclip earrings... oh wow, couple those with a pair of cheap, purple metallic wraparound sunglasses and these, dear readers, encapsulate all that was eighth grade and the Martin County Fair circa 1981. Lest we forget, though, the whole Madonna thing with the underwear on the outside of the clothing thing (sorta like the secretary in Splash...)now THAT was some high class fashion!
Personally, I don't understand what the fuss is. When I was a demographic tween, the fad was to wear aforementioned jeans, spike heeled disco sandals, and lots and lots of hair spray and the ugliest colored lip glosses you could steal (usually in colors that are now painted on cars favored by gang bangers). How did my mom deal with this? Very easily. She had the charge card (it was called Bank Americard back then) and I didn't.
Thus, my fascination with hi-top Chuck Taylors continues to this day...
From what I have seen, the typical guy could start a club, with most of the guys in town, to compare notes on his significant other, when the nights get long and cold. Such a thing can effectively kill romance with the little lady. But, there is always pure sex, for the joy of sex, right? No entanglement, just sex.
Whoa! Had to head to m-w.com for that one.
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But the whole idea of women's lib in the 60's and 70's was that women wanted to be taken seriously and not just seen as a sex object, no?
And this is exactly where their mothers, or their parents in general, fail them. What boys really want is sex -- period. Sure, there are some exceptions to the rule, but very, very few of them. Guys can't get pregnant, don't want kids, don't want attachments, but *do* want a good time, particularly if they walk away from it the next day.
I don't know what women (or girls) want. I'm a guy. I do know what we want, not just myself, but nearly every other guy I've ever known... until they get older. Eventually, yes, we may want love and a relationship, but *not* while we're in our teens, and rarely while we're in our early twenties.
Guys are fundamentally different than gals. Women need to realize that. They can't be like us, and they shouldn't try to make us be like them. You wont get a properly functioning society by ignoring the basic differences between men and women, but by accounting for them and integrating them into the fabric of society, as was always done before.
Tuor
Give me liberty or give me death.
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