Young Lust in Beantown

Bet that title gets me on Google.

I've been searching for something to ... stimulate me into blogging again, and just when I was sure I would never post again, along comes a great, big, juicy ....SCANDAL. And right here in Ye Olde Beanpotte!

Since sex sells papers and Internet ads these-a-days, some may have noted a minor league teen sex scandal that occurred in the hallowed halls of Milton Academy during the past year. Well, probably you have no clue about this at all. And with films like "Notes on A Scandal" coming out of Blighty recently, and various Cable TV movies on Oxygen hardly worth note, we are seeing a tremblingly titillating new type of crusading journalism approaching the horizon: Teen Angst from Sex Abuse in Posh Places.

Now in this particular case, the sex was strictly among underage students and it happened at a very well respected private academy that serves the hoity-toity of Bahston and its environs. I won't go into the lurid details, but suffice to say that there was some multi-party hankie-pankie happening in locker rooms, dorms and various vehicular transports.

These 'cautionary tales' often trot themselves out to provide 'worldly knowledge' to kids on the errors of sexual activity at an early age, though nominally they are targeted for progressive, concerned parents. But frankly, they're just soft-core kiddie porn for the freakizoids out there that the FBI SHOULD be watching, but finds itself way to busy making sure American Septuagenarians are getting strip searched in US Airports because a 'Bob Smith' once emailed Saddam Insane.

But THIS one gots a double-edged blade! Some high society juene filles decided to 'tell all' to Abigail Jones and Marissa Miley, authors of "Restless Virgins," a new book. But said finking fillies got much more than they bargained for; a tell all about them, replete with multiple positions and partners, and thinly guised aliases. So now everyone in their sororities know they were school pump bags. Quelle horreur! ---Duh!

One statement by the authors, I suppose offered in support of the graphic nature of their writing, does interest me:

"The authors agree that casual sex among teenagers is a national phenomenon that
can be blamed in part on the hyper-sexualized culture.

"You've had Abercrombie [& Fitch] selling thongs to 10-year-olds, and TV sex scenes doubled from 1998 to 2002," says Miley, who majored in English and economics at the University of Pennsylvania and now lives in New York. That, coupled with websites such as Facebook and MySpace, have created a universe where little is considered out-of-bounds.

Jones calls it "generational exhibitionism."

"These kids are putting their lives on display," she says. "People didn't
used to have sex in front of others. This is the first generation of kids coming
of age in the Internet, and there's a breaking down of privacy."

I suppose that this statement is truly significant from a viewpoint of generational shift; this next generation (of which Bwana Jr be a member) is viewing intimacy completely differently than the parents, especially in regards to public expression of sexuality.

I mean, the Boomers who post their sex lives with movie files and digital photos are considered freaks by most of their contemporaries. And moreover, viewed as pathetically obsessed with the cult of perpetual youth, i.e., if I am 50-ish and still humping the planet, I am VITAL AND ALIVE AND WANTED.

Yippee.

And though they may in fact be less Victorian and prudish then their contemporaries, they don't appear to be that happy. Rather they appear a bit desperate. They want attention, more than anything else. And they don't want anyone to say they are OLD --- this being death word amongst Boomers.

Perhaps the contrast of an entire generation really thinking that sex is simply no big deal, just another fun physical activity like break dancing to be share with your peeps; perhaps THIS is the news flash. Because we know that the pervs will buy the book to whack off, and the self-styled "Cool Parents" will read it for tips on how to better serve their kinders (you know, the ones who always serve booze to under aged kids at parties in their homes because, "they'll just do it elsewhere, this way we can watch them) {aka SUPER pervs}. I sure as hell won't read it.

My daughter would just DIE from embarrassment.