Posted on 02/16/2005 7:35:13 AM PST by MisterRepublican
If you watch a lot of cable television, you've probably seen the ads, especially late at night or early in the morning. The "Girls Gone Wild" videos promise to show you coeds behaving badly on the beach during Spring Break or getting down and dirty at Mardi Gras. The formula is simple: find a group of nubile young things drunk out of their heads and induce them to pull up their T-shirts or pull down their shorts and expose themselves to anyone willing to fork over $19.95 for the privilege. The most recent incarnation features gangster rapper Snoop Dogg hawking fresh, young flesh.
Call me old-fashioned, but I just can't imagine what these girls were thinking when they agreed to "show off their assets," as one knock-off video boasts. These young women aren't pros -- they are not part of the pornographic underworld -- but ordinary teens and twenty-somethings who one day will be wives and mothers. One young girl, who was 17 at the time she allowed herself to be photographed topless, has already sued the producers of "The Guy Game," a video game featuring females in various stages of undress. Her suit claims she did not give a "valid or enforceable consent or release" for photos to be used by the video game makers. "Plaintiff is still a teenager and wishes to attend college, develop her career and be active in her community and church." Good luck.
What is most shocking about this phenomenon is that we're not all that shocked by it. Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more. Just take a look around next time you're at the mall.
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I disagree. The extent of what we see today was not there 30 years ago. One had to look hard to find x-rated material and hide the mags somewhere in your bedroom. Now all you have to do is turn on the cable or browse the internet.
"When I was in HS the boys had to swim in the nude."
No nude swimming in my HS during the period from 59-63. Group showers, though. I don't remember being all that concerned about sizes back then. I really never noticed.
I wonder if the nude swimming thing had anything to do with the coaches little fetishes?
In our HS, the girls had group showers, too, not individual stalls. I think that came later. My HS girlfriend didn't think it was any big deal to shower with the other girls. We boys just wished we could be flies on the wall in there.
They all claim there pride, however few can claim dignity.
Man, talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly... the one on the left gets two out of three... *g
How about the fact that every town in the American West used to have at least one brothel that operated openly and legally. Would that fly today in Tucson or Santa Fe?
I disagree. Maybe you are asking the wrong boys. And don't confuse teen age fantasies about sex with "what kind of girl he wants".
Interesting that you say that, considering the word "prude" has been thrown around quite a bit on FR as well.
good point
Sexual assault was virtually unheard of because the victim, up until recently, would be too ashamed to report the assault and many police departments would not bother investigating the crime if they concluded that the victim was "asking for it."
The Muslim world enforces very high standards of modesty for women. Do you think sexual assaults don't happen there?
The first class was interesting, though. Our instructor was female, and one of the students (not me) showed up for class, in which there were girls, dressed just like he had taken the placement test.
I don't know who was more embarrassed, him or the instructor.
Today most probably nobody would blink an eye...
No, they had been doing it since the pool was built when my father went there in the 30's.
The girls wore suits of a sort. They looked like something from the turn of the century. They all had to wear the same thing. They had separate showers, but no doors on the stalls.
Not in the Christian West, as far as I know. Now that we're entering a post-Christian age, at least among the cultural elites, we're reverting to pagan mores.
I think that's really odd. What was the deal with nude swimming for boys? I suspect some funny coaches were involved. I can see no reason for it, otherwise.
Up until paternity tests were invented, it was pretty difficult to figure out who the actual father of a child was. Sure, we didn't have illegitimacy the way we do today, but don't fool yourself into thinking that women, even married women, weren't getting knocked up by men who they weren't married to.
Thanks for your thought-provoking comments.
Modesty doesn't just mean the way women dress either. It also includes the words that come out of their mouths. Women swearing is such a huge turn off--it's worse than when guys do it.
"Modesty doesn't just mean the way women dress either. It also includes the words that come out of their mouths. Women swearing is such a huge turn off--it's worse than when guys do it.
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I consider it the same, exactly, whether it's men or women. I've always found swearing to be offensive, whoever does it.
I just don't like it.
I did a double-take at your post--for a second I thought you wrote "we're reverting to pagan whores." Which, in some cases, may actually be applicable!
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