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Are the youth really becoming 'oversexualized' in our society?

By Superduperficial - Oct 29th, 2007 at 3:52 pm EDT

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Rob seems to treat this as a given in his latest post. I'm just not seeing it. Anyone care to make the case?

I'm not seeing any historical evidence that we ever reached some kind of 'happy balance', as a society, that we then went past. Previous generations saw kids dancing at church or the occasional showing of ankle under a woman's dress as evidence that they were all becoming sexual hellions. My dad is constantly griping to me that our generation is the most prudish he's ever seen, and that everyone dresses so conservative now, especially in high school, compared to the early 1970s.

Since I'm not getting it, could someone lay out the case for me that we've gone over the edge?

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WaPo's say on the subject

By JR Oct 30th 2007 at 6:17 pm EDT

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I think they lay out the basic thrust of the argument, at least in the Halloween context.

(*please don't take this as an indication of me actually having an opinion one way or another--I've got a cold and a headache and dinner on the stove, and I really don't care)

Hmm

By Celes Oct 31st 2007 at 4:15 am EDT

I honestly think that older people have a problem with todays generation because its totally different from when they were young. They grew up with different values and traditions. So in their eyes it's the most "prudish" yet but really its just the transition of time. If that makes any sense.

RE: Are the youth really becoming 'oversexualized' in our society?

By Interested 7th Grader Nov 6th 2007 at 1:46 pm EST

It has as much to do with what's going on in the youth's mind as what they're wearing (and the two feed into each other). When children as young as ten can't see that they're worth so much more than how "hot" they look, when they can't see that they have more to give to the world then sex and their body, then yes, they've become oversexualized.

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