03-25-2004, 11:14 AM
There's a trend going on in Norway, perhaps Europe, perhaps the world, that young people purchase and wear these colourful bracelets to indicate their sexual preference. A red bracelet might indicate you wish someone to perform oral sex for you, a yellow might indicate you are looking for a threesome, a green might indicate you've already just had sex, etc.
In today's paper, I read how a young child in 3rd grade (8-9 year old) was forced to strip because he/she wasn't deemed "worthy" to wear a particular bracelet. I can't even begin to grasp the many levels this is utterly repulsive and extremely objectionable. Call me an ol'-fashioned bloke, but I'd prefer if 8-year olds *didn't* walk around talking about sex, I wish they *didn't* express a desire to *have* sex, and I wish people in general, let alone small children, wouldn't force someone to take their clothes off.
If we disregard the stupidity of wearing a "(I want) sex-bracelet" in the first place, for a while, what the hell are children doing with them? And what are the salesmen of these items thinking, selling them to young children? I'm a capitalist myself, and see the profit as the ultimate goal, but even I have *some* morals when it comes to certain things. Obviously, they do not. I don't know if actual sex is being had at that age; frankly, I don't want to know, but I can't understand this lack of moral responsibility these people have allowing children to behave this way.
I know everything in today's society has to be sexual. Commercials, fashion, any aspect of society really, but isn't there a limit? I seem to remember an episode of "Sex and the city" where the character "Samantha" is appalled to hear 14-year old girls talking about giving blowjobs, where the general argument was "shouldn't children be children for as long as they can? They have their whole lives to grow up to be adults, why expediate the process more than necessary?" I feel the same applies here, only to a sterner degree. There is a vast ... *vast* ... difference between 14-year old teens and 8-year children.
What I don't understand, is how parents can allow this sort of thing to go on? Obviously, children are still buying these bracelets - it's not like the trend is disappearing - even though they may not be the target audience, and they're being allowed to, by the parents, the salespeople, and the government. I'm not a big fan of government-interference, but this is so unfathomably appalling, I really think someone ought to do something.
Is this trend present in *your* country? If so (and if not as well) what do you make of it? Why is this trend allowed to go unchecked?
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In today's paper, I read how a young child in 3rd grade (8-9 year old) was forced to strip because he/she wasn't deemed "worthy" to wear a particular bracelet. I can't even begin to grasp the many levels this is utterly repulsive and extremely objectionable. Call me an ol'-fashioned bloke, but I'd prefer if 8-year olds *didn't* walk around talking about sex, I wish they *didn't* express a desire to *have* sex, and I wish people in general, let alone small children, wouldn't force someone to take their clothes off.
If we disregard the stupidity of wearing a "(I want) sex-bracelet" in the first place, for a while, what the hell are children doing with them? And what are the salesmen of these items thinking, selling them to young children? I'm a capitalist myself, and see the profit as the ultimate goal, but even I have *some* morals when it comes to certain things. Obviously, they do not. I don't know if actual sex is being had at that age; frankly, I don't want to know, but I can't understand this lack of moral responsibility these people have allowing children to behave this way.
I know everything in today's society has to be sexual. Commercials, fashion, any aspect of society really, but isn't there a limit? I seem to remember an episode of "Sex and the city" where the character "Samantha" is appalled to hear 14-year old girls talking about giving blowjobs, where the general argument was "shouldn't children be children for as long as they can? They have their whole lives to grow up to be adults, why expediate the process more than necessary?" I feel the same applies here, only to a sterner degree. There is a vast ... *vast* ... difference between 14-year old teens and 8-year children.
What I don't understand, is how parents can allow this sort of thing to go on? Obviously, children are still buying these bracelets - it's not like the trend is disappearing - even though they may not be the target audience, and they're being allowed to, by the parents, the salespeople, and the government. I'm not a big fan of government-interference, but this is so unfathomably appalling, I really think someone ought to do something.
Is this trend present in *your* country? If so (and if not as well) what do you make of it? Why is this trend allowed to go unchecked?
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