Sunday, November 14, 2010

for kids to play spin the bottle blow jobs

Did you know that kids are playing spin the bottle? Yes, of course they are, we all did. Did you know that now spin the bottle means giving a boy a blow job?!?! I didn't until a few days when a teacher friend of mine informed me of the interesting turn that this popular game has taken. I'm sorry, can i just repeat this again? SPIN THE BOTTLE BLOW JOBS!

I hate to sound like one of those old people (because I'm really not that old) but in my day playing spin the bottle and giving a strange boy a kiss on the, dare I say it, lips was a huge deal. Maybe I'm old fashioned but when did sucking a boys dick become a party game? Clearly I've missed something in human evolution (if we can call it that) when kids think that sucking or being sucked is no big deal. Am I the only one that finds this completely and utterly wrong and inappropriate? I certainly hope not.

Let's explore this concept for a moment shall we? This is terribly unsanitary and dirty. And by dirty I don't me sexually I mean hygienically. Blow jobs can spread anything from yeast infections (that's right males get them too but no one talks about it) to herpes and other lovely fungal and bacterial infections and growths. Grossed out yet? Think that boy showered recently? Unlikely. What about that girl's mouth that just passed one boy's penis fungal infection around the room? Clearly, communal blow jobs is fabulous idea. Now what is this teaching kids about intimacy? I'm not saying that two consenting adults shouldn't have casual oral sex but shouldn't kids be learning that this experience can loving, caring and a special, meaningful act shared between two people? If a blow job can apparently be interchangeable with a handshake, what does that say about sex? Also, what percentage of the kids attending this party are actually mentally and emotionally ready for blow jobs? A lot of this happens due to peer pressure. And if after school specials have taught us anything it's that peer pressure is bad. What's more likely to happen, a boy that just had his first erection and has no idea what to do with it lets a girl at a party suck it or he says "sorry guys, I'm very uncomfortable in this situation and I am going to leave" and be ridiculed for the next 2 years at school? I wonder. And of course, let's all agree that teaching girls to be sex objects and that giving a blow job without getting anything in return is perfectly ok. Because life is all about pleasing men, isn't it. I don't really feel like going into a feminist rant here but I think you understand where I'm going with this.

Obviously not ALL kids are doing this but enough are that it's problematic. The only way for kids to know about anything is for adults to educate them. Clearly none of that is going on in these kids' lives. Can we blame the parents for this? Uh, yeah. Can we blame the school boards for taking sex ed out of the curriculum? Uh, yeah. How about the conservative government for trying to enforce abstinence based ideology? Uh, yeah. What do you get when you don't educate your children properly on the very real consequences of their actions? Apparently, spin the bottle blow jobs.