Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Would mother approve?
Sticking to actions that garner mom's seal of approval isn't nearly as limiting as it used to be. We've mainstreamed just about everything, to the point that some girls openly aspire to be porn stars. A significant number of young mothers can't possibly look their kids in the eye and say something like "don't do anything I wouldn't do" with a straight face. What would that entail exactly? No ass-to-mouth? No triple penetration?
Kids of tomorrow are going to have to really push the bounds of acceptable behavior if they are going to properly shock their parents. When I was in middle school, blowjobs were nearly unheard of amongst my circle of pasty, pudgy peers. By the time I graduated high school, sodomy and girlfriend-swapping were part and parcel for some of my friends. The best thing these kids can do as parents is lie to their offspring, because the "don't do what I did" thing doesn't work nearly as well as people like to imagine. We need only look to baby boomers and their 'do as I say, not as I did' strategy for curbing chemical abuse. It certainly didn't slow the drug explosion during the 1980s.
What will kids do to shock and shame their parents in the decades to come? The options are becoming fewer and fewer every day, as the internet is continuously updated with an escalating array of sexual depravities. I picture a teenage girl having an intimate conversation with her mom, detailing her sexual experiences as a sort of half-confession, half-rebellion.
Young Suzy, resentful of the comfortable, quiet, suburban life her parents have provided, seeks to stir things up by having a heart-to-heart with mom about her sexual escapades. At 19, she's a grizzled veteran of the adolescent sex scene. With a tangible sense of anticipation not unlike that experienced by a toddler the night before Christmas, Suzy begins to unleash increasingly vivid descriptions of sex acts that she is certain will shock her poor, hapless mother into a fit of botox-fueled hysteria. She starts slowly, setting the stage for an array of increasingly taboo experiences. Quickly the momentum builds and soon Suzy is literally rattling off stories like an auctioneer at Christie's. Tales of sodomy, threesomes, double penetration, random sex in bathroom stalls, white dragons, bukkake parties, salad tossing, ass-to-mouth, mouth-to-ass, experiments in lesbianism, bisexuality, and on and on. Each detail literally frothing from her frantic maw like foam at the bottom of a waterfall. Finally, after she's puked up the entire contents of her memory and talked herself horse, she looks into her mother's eyes expecting to see shock, dismay, or even horror etched across her surgically enhanced cheeks and lips. Instead, she sees little more than mild concern and, could it be, pride(!).
"Well I hope you're using protection Suzy. In my day, we always used protection. And if you love your father, you won't ever tell him about any of that stuff. Get it out of your system and find a nice boy to marry, but marry for money Suzy, marry for money."
Suzy's mom returns to lazily munching her 100% organic, whole wheat bagel while sipping a triple mocha mucho grande latte. She changes the subject to homework and carries on as if she hadn't heard a thing. Suzy is dumbfounded and finds herself unable to finish her cucumber, bean sprout sandwich with all natural, fat free dressing. She falls silent, staring blank-faced into her half-empty plate, while her mother begins going on about the possibilities of a family trip in the Fall and how badly she needs a pedicure.
Tomorrow's teens will have to go to great lengths in order to surpass the exploratory endeavors of their parents. To this end, I can only imagine we will see a significant increase in sexual encounters involving bodily fluids, bowel movements, BDSM, and fetishism. Hell, BDSM is already so mainstream as to be passe, or even cliché in the modern sexual landscape. Case in point: Larry Wachowski, one of the famous Wachowski brothers (The Matrix Trilogy, V for Vendetta) divorced his wife to be with his favorite dominatrix, "Ilsa Trix" (writing from memory here, but her 'business' name was something similar to that). Subsequently, 'Ilsa' left her transsexual husband to be with Larry. Larry has since become Lana, following a sex change operation of his own. Perfectly healthy, perfectly normal I say.
In a world with that sort of thing going on, how do you shock anyone? Future generations are going to have to push the boundaries far and wide to find something that will truly blow their parents' hair back. It's going to get harder and harder to find something mom doesn't approve of or hasn't tried at one point in time, which means it is going to become increasingly difficult to rebel against oppressive restrictions like "if you're going to drink, you'll drink here at home where we can keep an eye on you" and "you're 14, it's about time to start taking birth control". Obviously, we are headed toward a golden age of sexual and intellectual enlightenment, just as our wisened forebears predicted. I can't wait!
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Gosh I hope you're wrong - remember you have two nieces!!!
But, I guess I'm pretty safe because I've never even heard of most of the things you referred to... my girls won't have to go to such extremes to shock me :)
I've never thought of myself as an angel but I guess when you’re with the same guy since the age of 16/17 you don't here about this stuff.
What the heck are:
-White Dragons
-Bukkake Parties
-Bowel Movements
(Okay, I get the gist on this one but are you kidding me... is this really happening as a sexual act, I thought it was just something people did in private on the toilet)
-BDSM
WOW, what a STRANGE world we live in.
"Gosh I hope you're wrong - remember you have two nieces!!!"
Believe me, I hope I'm wrong too! LOL This sort of stuff is exactly why those nieces need to be home schooled and systematically segregated from society at large until they are 30! Keep them away from the proles…it's their only hope!!
"I've never thought of myself as an angel but I guess when you’re with the same guy since the age of 16/17 you don't here about this stuff."
Yeah, things have definitely changed since you guys got together, though you may have been a bit sheltered even then. I knew what most of this stuff was by the time I was a teenager, but then males seem to have a greater fascination with extreme acts of depravity, so I probably had more access to sick minds willing to share the latest horrible act of degradation they had heard about somewhere.
White Dragon - It's a slang term referring to an act involving regurgitation. I'll let you use your imagination...
Bukkake Parties - If you're familiar with terms like "soggy biscuit" or "circle jerk", replace the biscuit or the center of the circle with a woman and you've got the general idea. Started in Japan, but made its way elsewhere via the internet. I can only hope no one actually gets together and does this.
Bowel Movements - This particular fetish gave birth to the German Scheize porn industry. Some people like poop! I'm turned off by the idea of sodomy, so this one makes absolutely no sense to me. Poop is disgusting and the orifice it tumbles from is no place for my most prized possession. Peeing on each other seems to be becoming more popular as well, as you hear about it more often than would seem reasonable. A few years ago, R-Kelly had sex with a 14-years old girl, then peed on her...he's still selling CDs.
BDSM - Bondage, Discpline, Sadism and Masochism, or Bondage, Discipline, and Sado-Masochism. Leather, whips, chains, and pain. People dig it to the point of having stores dedicated solely to the BDSM lifestyle. Seems kind of absurd to me, but some people like their arousal experiences to be completely soulless, emotionless, and/or painful.
How much of any of that stuff is actually going on is highly debatable, though the BDSM stuff is an industry unto itself, so I have to believe that it's pretty popular. Hopefully the world has very few women who are willing to be the centerpiece of a bukkake party, play with bowel byproducts, and allow themselves to be peed on, but I didn't make any of this stuff up, so someone out there has either done, or thought about doing, all of them. I haven't done any of them, so I promise none of them are products on my personal dimentia. :)
"And I say to myself, what a wonderful worrrllllld"
OMG I can't even figure out what you're talking about from you're descriptive comment to Laura. Yeah, I know that stuff goes on, but I guess I just thought it was less mainstream and more focused in weird swinger clubs and internet porn.
Jill and I have been dragged to S&M concerts before (The Genitorturers) and have friends that do the fetishcon thing so I know that is a big industry. Hell, even a night at the Castle you find people way into the BDSM. I don't know, I just don't get the appeal.
I'm not saying it's all as commonplace as BDSM, just that our generation has pushed the boundaries to the point that the next generation will have a hard time taking things any further without mainstreaming more extreme "sexual" behaviors, if you can even describe them as sexual. The old taboos…oral, anal, multiple partners, and those sorts of things are mainstream, or at least borderline mainstream, today. Imagine what people will be doing to each other and calling it sex 20 years from now! It's going to interesting, if nothing else. Then again, maybe it's all good, clean fun, and I'm just an uptight prude. That said, I'll be an uptight prude if it means I can enjoy sex without having to deal with someone else's poopshoot or a beating. :)