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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
When I was in junior highschool in Minneapolis in the 80s, a few kids were already having sex. There was a pregnant girl in my class. Even then I thought: we are badder than the last generation and it's cool. But I wondered what it would be like in ten years? If kids would be having sex even younger? And, even then, I knew if I became a parent I would be horrified if that became true.
I've often wondered where it would all stop, because it's so natural for kids to want to out misbehave the older generation. So in the future will we argue about full frontal nudity in the junior high holiday pageant? Oral sex in the high school play? Kama Sutra electives for sophomores?
Maybe women in sheer minidresses at the office are just a few seasons away. What a gorgeous, distracting sight. I can barely walk around New York without smacking into light posts from looking now.
I consider myself a monogamous libertine. I think people should celebrate their sexuality however they want at pretty much whatever age they want, as long as it's not adults preying on kids.
But if I was a parent I would be half-prude. I would not let my 13 year old daughter take pole dancing classes.
Yes, pole dancing for pre-teens is creepy. Jon Benet creepy.
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