So I was reading this article from the USAToday thing in the margin:
I mean, who can go by that headline without at least looking for a sec?
So I look at that article, and then I follow it up by looking up something that was in the article and it left me here:
Am I really that old, or is the world coming to an end?
The follow up item I checked out was a company called "Shanes World" and a link from there to this - this is NOT an appropriate link for the office:
Here's the scoop for those of you that don't want to get fired. There's apparently a company that brings "Pornstars" to your party to play sex themed games where that "prizes" are actual sex. This sounds a lot to me like organized prostitution. They get around this (I guess) by filming the entire thing which they then produce as a video for sale.
Which is what leads me to pondering my crotchetiness, or the impending end of the world. Because I think this is, perhaps, just a little, kinda/sorta, over the line. I think that this is not me being too old - the world is coming to an end.
When I was in undergrad, a bunch of us hired a stripper for one of the guys birthdays. Would we have done this? I don't think we would have, I certainly hope we wouldn't have. Is this really OK these days?
Makes you think though. Is the promiscuity of this decade (the one with "rainbow" parties with junior high kids and "pornstar" parties at college fraternities) different than the "free love" of the 1960's? Has to be doesn't it? The 60's were never about minors, were they? And there seems to be a cynicalness, a devaluing of your partner that I don't think was part of the '60s either. I mean, they called it "free love" not "free sex."
The reason this caught my eye originally was that last weekend the kids here at school had what they were calling a "pornstar" party. Fortunately in this case it was just a bunch of kids playing dress up and not people filming the party having sex with each other. But should even the benign theme be a relief?
I swear it's almost to make me back off my "no bad ideas" thing.
Kids today.
8 comments:
i don't think anyone was taping the pornstar party, but there was definitely some wild stuff happening that i did not need to see...ever. but hiring pornstars to come to your party is a different issue entirely. that's the stuff of frat boys' dreams. and universities' public relations nightmares.
becca
I actually heard from my mom last year that a group of 15 girls from my CATHOLIC GRADE SCHOOL were busted for having a rainbow party with the boys in their class. As if that wasn't disturbing enough, the worst part was... my mom had to tell me what a rainbow party was.
Gross.
i hear ya celeste....my mom keeps telling me about kids getting caught on the bus and in class giving each each, um, oral stimulaiton. what the hell is wrong with these kids?
becca
ok, so since even Celeste needed someone to tell her... What is a rainbow party? I suspect that its something that junior high kids should NOT be having, but are anyway. Where are these kids' parents?
Someone enlighten me.
--Katy
p.s. just so that you aren't thinking this is the only thing I'm sheltered about, the sex lives of 10 year olds, I also saw someone chewing tobacco for the FIRST time EVER at a job site the other day. That was gross too.
After reading your post, I'm not going to complain when my kids (both under 2 years) scream and throw tantrums.
Actually, in the 60's it was free sex. But free in the "passion of the moment" sex; not planned and/or video-taped for sale, or come to my party so we can screw while other people watch, sex. It was the confluence of the new safety provided by the pill, and seeing pictures of our friends being killed in Vietnam - not some voyueristic, for profit, we have too much time on our hands - let's see what we can do with our "too much money for our own good" lives. Sorry for the rant, but I lived there.
Indri's Mom
Don't get me wrong, I wasn't intending to draw a parallel between the two, moreso to point out the differences.
So, I googled "rainbow party" and besides finding out that it is, amongst other things, a Greek political party, I also found the definition as relates to this blog post. The Urban Dictionary definition (the most efficient).
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