My take as well.davyK wrote:Maybe this has always happened and it's now being exposed
Liveinadive wrote:An openness towards being vocal about sex in all it's forms is something the U.K is terrible at and we would all benefit from not keeping sexual topics behind closed doors, for both the wrong type and the right type of sex.
davyK wrote:The model or the comment?
I do attest to this, irl too. I'll hang around the main uni thoroughfare waiting for kids to turn up for a lecture and that bus demographic is multiplied many times on campus. One catches some seriously banal conversations. The girls are all cleavage-and-leggings sexual confidence or mousy timidity, the boys mainly look bewildered. The ones that don't look predatory. It staggers me the number of females getting about in heels and spray on skirts in what is becoming pretty icy weather. Jesus christ when did i get this oldTempy wrote:I feel weird being on a bus with rutting 16-18 year olds these days. They're so ridiculous sexualised in comparison to my peers at that age (so 8-9 years ago) when we were early relatively modestly dressed. Maybe it's perspective that's lending that view, but I don't remember the following: -Girls in super heavy makeup -Crop tops and shorts that are way, way, way too short for any age -Guys with tshirts with half naked/fully naked women on (this in particular I hate) -So much photo taking going on And then you've got Snapchat and Instagram where nekkids are rife, people carrying two phones (one personal, one for 'hookups') facebook and twitter allowing some degree of anonymity or distance from responsibility. I know it's slightly off topic, but I think that generation is going to grow up with some warped expectations and perceptions, and it's the facile nature of interactions on the internet that's partly to blame. Also, as @skerret will attest to, the reddit ideal is surely skewing things for young men.
That's fucked. Brings to mind the nun from Boardwalk Empire's women's health clinic.Tempy wrote:A girl I go to uni with works at the Sexual Health clinic and she sometimes does sessions at schools. They had a vagina model and she was showing to the class, and she said "of course, not everyone's looks like this, mine certainly doesn't." A few weeks later she found out that the teacher had raised a formal complaint with her, saying it wasn't decent.Liveinadive wrote:An openness towards being vocal about sex in all it's forms is something the U.K is terrible at and we would all benefit from not keeping sexual topics behind closed doors, for both the wrong type and the right type of sex.
GooberTheHat wrote:I think its rare, its just reported more than it ever has been.
Tempy wrote:@livinadivina Precisely, and more importantly telling kids that "Hey it's ok if yours doesn't look like what they do on a Playboy picture." which is worth massive kudos.
If I wasn't at work i'd find the entry on Stoya's blog where she complained to a publishing company that had photoshopped her area on the cover of one of their DVDs and there's also a bit on one of the latest Guardian agony aunt things where a reader has written in because "my Boyfriend won't give me oral or look at my vagina because thinks it is disgusting and 'doesn't look like the ones in porn.'" imagine the factors that have to cumulate to bring someone to write that
davyK wrote:The model or the comment?
Heh, I'm derailing your thread also, apologies.
GooberTheHat wrote:
Liveinadive wrote:Why doesn't that girl from the agony page just tell him to fuck off?
Why do women put up with these cretinous pricks?
Tempy wrote:Liveinadive wrote:Why doesn't that girl from the agony page just tell him to fuck off?
Why do women put up with these cretinous pricks?
I was brave and found it here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/may/12/boyfriend-says-my-vagina-is-repulsive
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