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