posted October 30, 2013 02:23 AM            

Once you start hitting puberty **** starts to happen.
It's better to try and educate your children instead of trying to keep them in dark ages.
Might as well homeschool them or send them to catholic/private schools.

Oh wait those are just as worse, not nessarily the curriculum but again society/peer pressures.

posted October 30, 2013 03:29 AM            

My mom experienced the same thing growing up though she made it work for her instead of against her (at least she made sure she hurt that town a lot more than they hurt her, and I have to say as sad as it was I actually don't feel sorry for many of her victims, they deserved for being so obnoxious to her, even if it was a vicious circle). And as Granny told me, "You didn't invent sex, you didn't invent partying, you didn't invent rock and roll or whatever it is you kids listen to." Actually, after the **** rumors started Granny was so worried about my being raped by the good Christians who called me **** that she took immediate steps to prevent it with an expert touch that speaks of experience.

The 70s and 80s seem even wilder, not only going by what I've heard from people who were raised in that time but their movies aimed at teens. And it makes sense it was wilder because of the explosion in drug use (which Vietnam vets contributed as much to as hippies and everyone else) which encouraged selling among youth (who in turn sold to friends), the existence of improved birth control, radical social changes everyone was still reeling from while some (such as legalized abortion) had yet to kick in (plus I believe the legal age of doing porn back then was 16), and that there were so many more kids back then (the "boomers") so it was harder to keep track of them than it was in the 90s. No wonder teen pregnancy and the like (plus crime and violence) were so much worse back then.

posted October 30, 2013 03:43 AM            

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Originally posted by PixieJane:
It was pretty sexualized when I grew up though in a schizophrenic way. Popular girls were praised for being mature and sexual while unpopular girls were called ***** for the slightest offense. And boys, they were such braggarts that I can't help but think you were a hermit because that's normal. They lied a lot, however (just as many girls downplayed the sex they had). After I was labeled a **** (that was schizo, too) boys were always coming onto me. I'd turn them away but then they'd lie about what I did with them, perhaps because they didn't want to say they didn't get to score with me when all their friends claimed they did (that was Bible Belt, in contrast the outskirts of Houston were actually less wild and I wasn't harassed so much, though OTOH they were more honest than the legion of lying perverts of the Bible Belt and there were enough places to "get it" that they didn't have to bother me).

My mom experienced the same thing growing up though she made it work for her instead of against her (at least she made sure she hurt that town a lot more than they hurt her, and I have to say as sad as it was I actually don't feel sorry for many of her victims, they deserved for being so obnoxious to her, even if it was a vicious circle). And as Granny told me, "You didn't invent sex, you didn't invent partying, you didn't invent rock and roll or whatever it is you kids listen to." Actually, after the **** rumors started Granny was so worried about my being raped by the good Christians who called me **** that she took immediate steps to prevent it with an expert touch that speaks of experience.

The 70s and 80s seem even wilder, not only going by what I've heard from people who were raised in that time but their movies aimed at teens. And it makes sense it was wilder because of the explosion in drug use (which Vietnam vets contributed as much to as hippies and everyone else) which encouraged selling among youth (who in turn sold to friends), the existence of improved birth control, radical social changes everyone was still reeling from while some (such as legalized abortion) had yet to kick in (plus I believe the legal age of doing porn back then was 16), and that there were so many more kids back then (the "boomers") so it was harder to keep track of them than it was in the 90s. No wonder teen pregnancy and the like (plus crime and violence) were so much worse back then.

And by high school for me oral sex became the rage. Thanks to all the ignorance imposed on us (and losing our respect with blatant hypocrisy and not believing anything they said because they kept lying to us) we invented our own details about sex, including "oral isn't sex and it's safe." What really inflamed that was President Clinton saying oral didn't count (which may have affected the middle schools as much as high schools). All in time for Britney Spears to arrive on the scene! ('Course sexually explicit lyrics had been going on for awhile with even songs like "cake and sodomy" and even Tori Amos got airtime on the radio with some that made me think, "Did they really just play that?")

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posted October 30, 2013 03:49 AM            

The internet makes it easier to plug into the big cities, however. Everything they want is easy to find and even innocent searches can find porn accidentally that would make the stash of their dad and grandpa seem tame in comparison. So the seeming peer pressure would become different. But even so the media isn't going to twist kids as long as parents have their respect (not to be confused with fear which is different, fear without respect only means they don't want to be caught while respect means they'd be ashamed even if they didn't get caught) then their families are the biggest influence.

posted October 30, 2013 08:33 AM            

My family has a rating for every girl in school. It's indexed to the GPA, number of languages fluent, number of instruments played and number of leadership roles. Geeks have and will always rule. Brains are sexy.

posted October 30, 2013 09:27 AM            

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Originally posted by Kerosene:
Seriously?
we're only 3 years apart, right? something like that.
You must of been in middle school around 2002?
we had cell phones and kids around me did date etc
LOL I remember when razrs and sidekicks were the original iPhones...
those were the days..

I do agree teen pregnancy epidemic is ridiculous, especially that stupid show for glamorizing it.

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posted November 04, 2013 10:45 PM            

Wow AG, tbh even when I was in Middle School, ah-hem, a time ago, that stuff was everywhere, minus the cellphones.