Posted on 05/24/2005 9:00:04 PM PDT by CHARLITE
"Alas, no. No parents are invited to this get-together. A "rainbow party," you see, is a gathering of boys and girls for the purpose of engaging in group ora..."
Thats the momment I burst out WTF.
People seem to have this idea that one (especially young people) can read or see anything and it won't affect them. Patent nonsense.
If what people read and see has no effect on their minds, why does the advertising industry spend gazillions of dollars to influence people?
Years ago when I was a young idiot, I read Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land". I was highly impressed, and was influenced greatly by his message of "free love". Years later, I re-read it when my teenagers got it from the library. Luckily I can read fast, so it only took me about an evening to scan it.
It was total trash. Crappy writing, shallow, written like an advertisement or cheap propaganda, and the message was repellant. And I saw how much I had been influenced without realizing it at the time.
Kids epecially are highly influenced by what they read and see. Junk entertainment and raunchy movies or books are highly detrimental. There is so much good literature available - I hope caring parents find their kids good stuff to read instead of this type of garbage.
Simon and Schuster needs a good boycott to wake their pedophile asses up.
that just shows that you have functioning neurons
this... this abomination is beyond credit.
On a related (but lighter note) when I see movies I loved as a kid come on TV, I'm almost ashamed. 3 ninjas? God that is a terrible movie, but I used to think it was awesome. It is amazing how maturity changes how things seem.
Meanie! My Dad told me no dates until I was 35. Imagine my hubby's surprise when I informed him a few years ago that Daddy gave me permission to start dating!
"Part of me doesn't understand why people don't want to talk about [oral sex]," he said. "Kids are having sex and they are actively engaged in oral sex and think it's not really sex.
I can't imagine where those kids got that idea. From a public figure, perhaps?
Good Lord! I read this stuff and I think I'm going out of my mind.
Whatever happened to childhood?
When there are kids who want to have sex but ARE TOO YOUNG TO PHYSICALLY DO IT -- that's a minor indication that everything is not as it should be.
Oprah had a show about this very issue. Hard to believe how naive some parents are.
From USA Today:
First the looney lefty:
"Elly Gore, a buyer for Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops in Milwaukee, concedes that the book is "edgy" but will stock it mainly because, she says, 'I knew that if I skipped it, I would have been censoring it. ... I couldn't do that.'"
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Then the money quote:
"Gillian Engburg, an editor at the American Library Association's Booklist magazine, says her publication will not review Rainbow. But the reason, she says, has nothing to do with the subject matter. 'We just didn't feel the book had enough literary merit to justify purchase.'"
Now the "Flowers in the Attic" series, dealing with incest, that was pretty darn twisted and lots of teenage girls read it.
Jimminey Cricket. I remember "The Secret Summer of LTB" where the "big scene" was the two main characters holding hands and sharing a kiss. That was something special. So darn innocent.
Dragging romance in the gutter doesn't make romance smell pretty, and doesn't make gutter sex "special."
That's not a surprise given the strange and unexplained connection between Star Trek fans and pedophiles.
Great title for a much-needed book.
I'm assuming that this is some kind of urban hip-hop slang for the word "player".
I'm also assuming that it means someone who "plays the field", or, as it used to be called, "sleeps around".
If I'm incorrect, please, somebody let me know!
"As to his denial in the Jones deposition that he and Ms. Lewinsky had had a 'sexual relationship,' the President maintained that there can be no sexual relationship without sexual intercourse, regardless of what other sexual activities may transpire. He stated that 'most ordinary Americans' would embrace this distinction."
2. PlayaA male who uses women for sex or other favors usually by charming the girl till they fall in love with them. A lot of guys do this in order to be a "playa" cuz in our modern society it is "cool" and "hip" to be labeled as a "playa". A female version of this would be slut.
That's close enough. Thanks!
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