(Do two virgins together need to wear condoms?)
This could have been an interesting thread if the Moral high handed "Do what I say or what's been my own experience or your un-normal" brigade hadn't got so pissy...as usual mentioning; no names, but the faces are familiar.
For my own story, I had "touching games" with boys in my local neighbourhood, but when we were about 10-11, we didn't come or anything, we weren't able to and I don't think aware of it. I didn't come till I was like 15 and didn't have sex with anyone till I was about 17, my boyfriend at that time however had had sex with a few guys at his school, so I didn't ever come in anyone without protection. I suppose that's pretty common, a sign of the times you might say.
I think the sexualisation of children is blown out of proportion and it is a dangerous thing. Kids get conflicting and confusing signals all the time about their identity and supposed development, look at Disney's High School Musical as example, the characters playing young teens in that film are indeed adults, who act and react to situations in ways which teens might not choose to, but as they (the children) see, absorb and want to emulate what they see is normal development patterns, aquire new behaviours in the fear of being out of touch or uncool.
Peer pressure is a terrible thing, but even more so when it is manipulated into a marketing tool by various industries for their own ends. I mean look at the clothes available in shops- no-ones saying that kids need to dress like a little victorians, but the slutty things in shops for the under tens is ridiculous; musicians aiming at teen and younger audience incorporate sexually provocative moves and sequences in their dance routines...and we wonder why they "grow up too fast",
All of a sudden they're coming out of the woodwork.
