"Jailbait" (Was: Wondering)

[susanmcgee48176]

> Carol responds:
> 
> It may also have something to do with the biological fact that most
> girls hit puberty before most boys do, as well. Sixteen-year-old 
girls
> are often virtually indistinguishable from twenty-year-olds, 
whereas I
> know some sixteen-year-old boys who are just emerging from 
childhood,
> and some fifteen-year-old boys who look and act like twelve-year-
olds.
> (Others, of course, have been shaving since they were fourteen, so 
it
> differs from kid to kid, of course.) I don't want to overgeneralize,
> and I'm certainly not in favor of teenage sex (quite the contrary),
> much less sex between teenagers and adults, but I wonder if teenage
> girls (often) looking older than they really are has something to do
> with the phenomenon you're describing. Wearing make-up and what 
would
> have been considered sexually provacative clothing when I was young
> may have something to do with it as well. Not sure who's to blame
> here, but standards of behavior and acceptable clothing have changed
> drastically in the last two decades. Anyone remember the days of the
> Beach Party films when Annette Funicello was not allowed to wear a
> swimsuit that would reveal her navel?
> 
> Carol, longing for the good old days when we had dress codes
>

Personally, I do NOT consider it acceptable or normal for grown men 
to be interested in or attracted to young girls, or teenaged girls.
I think it's all about the eroticization of girls in our culture, and 
I think it is sick and morally wrong. It's about seeing women and 
girls as property -- it's no coincidence that most sex crimes ARE 
committed against young girls. It's no coincidence that most of the 
international sex trafficking is in women and girls. Girls cannot be 
independent or think for themselves as well as older adult 
independent women, so some men like them better. 

Not all men. I reject that analysis because I think there are a ton 
of moral and upright men who prefer women their own age, and do NOT 
find little girls or teenaged girls attractive.

In fact, my children's school DOES have a dress code, and if they 
didn't, it would be a cold day in hell before my daughter went to 
school as a teenager with a plunging neckline or bare belly..or that 
my son went to school with jeans plunging down below his rear end or 
with a cap on backwards.

Susan