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[Demo_Chris]

362. I wrote... (cont)

"If this THREAD illustrates anything it is how muddled and terrified our society is when it comes to anything involving sex."

Note the bolded word.

You want me to share your outrage. I prefer to concern myself with things like wealth and income inequality, poverty, social injustice, clean air and water, our environment and global warming, our government completely out of control, the Patriot act and drones and endless wars, hungry kids... things like that.

I leave issues like worrying about teen boys being exposure to live breasts to the fine folks at Westboro Babtist -- or to the christian moral authorities here on DU.

But since you ask some specific question I will answer them:

"What does he do? What if he feels smothered?"

What if mom took them all to an amusement park and he got scared on a coaster?! Holy hell!

What if he hates it?

Then he learns that he doesn't like strippers.

What if he's embarrassed?

Then he's embarrassed. What's the point?

What if he's gay?

Then he laughs about it with his friends who know he is gay.

See, the thing here is that you are assigning your moral standards -- standards that clearly incorporate a shame based view of sexuality -- to the kids at this party. You ask these questions based upon the assumptions that these negative reactions are not only possible, but likely and proper. Whatever. The mom here is an idiot, and the kids, despite the "horrors" they went through at this party, saw nothing they have not seen a thousand times before. They are more likely to be scarred by the ludicrous overreaction by moral authorities than they are by the incident itself.