Daily Notations » sex http://dailynotations.com Another boring teenage life packaged in a blog. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:05:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 “Getting with it” http://dailynotations.com/nieweg-macvia/02/getting-with-it/ http://dailynotations.com/nieweg-macvia/02/getting-with-it/#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:16:46 +0000 Time http://dailynotations.com/?p=92 Something I dug out of a parenting forum I like reading. (I rate them on the amount of ignorance I find with the generally conservative parenting crowd.)

When I first heard about co-ed sleepovers my mouth just dropped open. I thought parents of the boys wouldn’t care, because it just seems like people worry more about girls than boys in this area. But then this one father put his foot down when girls started showing up for the sleepover and called the parents to take them home. I secretly cheered for him while the other moms went on about how he wasn’t “with it”–and this is how kids are today.

I’ve never really been a fan of sleepover-slumber-parties, but I see this kind of ignorance on almost every website and in real life amongst conservative parents. Girls and boys are friends. No, not friends with benefits, not secretly still doing it when you’re out of the room, just friends. Most of my friends are girls, that doesn’t mean I want to jump them as soon as their parents, or my own, are out of the room… This is all very 1920’s, dontcha think?

I don’t really get the reasoning behind this either. To these parties you’d invite your friends, people who all know each other and care about each other. Teens are, generally, not really into the whole fucking-in-front-of-your-twenty-best-friends thing. Especially in your own home. Another possibility could be that parents are scared little Jason’s birthday party is going to turn into a mass orgy. Since teenagers, especially those in the 10 to 14 year area where sleepovers are most common, are scared by and awkward even thinking about sex, I think it’s safe to assume this option is not going to happen either.

Not only are these reasonings idiotic, but I also see a major flaw in the chaste-one-sex-only-slumber-party. Homo/Bisexualism. Are homosexual teens invited? You could invite just one, but in that case you’d still need to be scared of him/her seeing one of the others naked. Or worse, what if the homosexual can’t control him or herself and ends up taking advantage of one of the pure and completely innocent teens?

What I’m trying to say: Get with it. Things changed since the 1950’s. People have friends of the opposite sex. Of course, that doesn’t mean they won’t jump each other after all. Scary developments in the 1960’s caused by those darn hippies made people realize they don’t have to be married to have sex… What if they take it one step further and teens start realizing you don’t even have to be engaged or in a serious relationship? Scary thoughts.

Conservative parents of America: lock your children in their rooms and meet in church to make the proper wedding arrangements.

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