Title: Unhooked
sf49erfan - April 18, 2007 06:31 PM (GMT)
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| In her new book, Unhooked, Laura Sessions Stepp argues that today’s high school and college kids have replaced relationships with “the casual sexual encounters known as hook-ups.” As a result, “love while being desired by some, is being put on hold or seen as impossible; sex is becoming the primary currency of social interaction.” According to Stepp, the hook-up culture is a big problem for the MySpace generation, even if its “confident girls” don’t realize it yet. A reporter for the Washington Post, Stepp based Unhooked on interviews with nine high school and college girls over the course of a year. She visited their schools, met their families, and listened to them talk about their sexual activities and romantic aspirations. She was surprised by the crudeness with which they discussed “hitting it,” “filler boys,” and the “yucks” monogamy gave them, and she came to believe that instead of getting the sense of empowerment they expected from taking control of their sex lives, they felt empty, used, lonely, and violated. |
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As a parent of two young girls this kind of thing scares me about what they will be faced with 10-15 years from now.
Stringaling - April 18, 2007 07:09 PM (GMT)
I hve read about his, not the book, but the same stuff....Its scary.. Boys have come to expect it from girls and girls even accept it as the norm...Just what you do...
Golfingmom - April 18, 2007 07:37 PM (GMT)
I'd suggest:
Make sure your girls have a high self esteem - self value. Make sure you set that in them so they don't cave to acceptance from others. My parents instilled that in us and we didn't cave in to ANYTHING. None of us had problems in HS. :thanks:
Make sure your girls have a high self esteem - self value. Make sure you set that in them so they don't cave to acceptance from others. My parents instilled that in us and we didn't cave in to ANYTHING. None of us had problems in HS. :thanks:
rasplundjr - April 18, 2007 08:23 PM (GMT)
Chastity belt equipped with an anti tamper mech that delivers 50K Volts of electricity (at REALLY low amperage)
Problem Solved
Come to thing about it that would work for the boy too....
Problem Solved
Come to thing about it that would work for the boy too....
seige - April 18, 2007 08:39 PM (GMT)
Are there any sexual positions that when conceiving will guarantee boys?
I've got to have me a couple boys just to be bodyguards for my girls. I'm also weighing in at around 235 right now and hope to gain much, much more weight before my daugters are old enough to have boys look at them. I've got to outweigh, out lift and generally be able to intimidate any guy who might even think about trying something....
Sometimes books like this make me scared to even have kids...
I've got to have me a couple boys just to be bodyguards for my girls. I'm also weighing in at around 235 right now and hope to gain much, much more weight before my daugters are old enough to have boys look at them. I've got to outweigh, out lift and generally be able to intimidate any guy who might even think about trying something....
Sometimes books like this make me scared to even have kids...
LynnMcG - April 19, 2007 01:56 AM (GMT)
Guns. Daddy's of girls need guns. Plus, being 235 can't hurt.
I think there's going to be a backlash from this generation of morally-lacking kids. And we're going to cause it. This behavior that girls and boys find acceptable today is unacceptable to my husband and I and will be for our daughter. My daughter has something in her that I didn't have at her age - the Holy Spirit. She IS the righteousness in Jesus Christ and I tell her that EVERYDAY. She will grow up knowing that she is worth so much in her Father's eyes than any boy or the attention of any boy.
I threw away too much of myself and my self worth because I didn't know who I was in Christ. It's impossible for my daughter to make the same mistake.
I think there's going to be a backlash from this generation of morally-lacking kids. And we're going to cause it. This behavior that girls and boys find acceptable today is unacceptable to my husband and I and will be for our daughter. My daughter has something in her that I didn't have at her age - the Holy Spirit. She IS the righteousness in Jesus Christ and I tell her that EVERYDAY. She will grow up knowing that she is worth so much in her Father's eyes than any boy or the attention of any boy.
I threw away too much of myself and my self worth because I didn't know who I was in Christ. It's impossible for my daughter to make the same mistake.
clayman - April 19, 2007 04:12 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (LynnMcG @ Apr 18 2007, 07:56 PM) |
| Guns. Daddy's of girls need guns. Plus, being 235 can't hurt. I think there's going to be a backlash from this generation of morally-lacking kids. And we're going to cause it. This behavior that girls and boys find acceptable today is unacceptable to my husband and I and will be for our daughter. My daughter has something in her that I didn't have at her age - the Holy Spirit. She IS the righteousness in Jesus Christ and I tell her that EVERYDAY. She will grow up knowing that she is worth so much in her Father's eyes than any boy or the attention of any boy. I threw away too much of myself and my self worth because I didn't know who I was in Christ. It's impossible for my daughter to make the same mistake. |
:agree:
Dang, Lynn! You and me must have grown up together.
'Course I'm 250...
LynnMcG - April 19, 2007 01:12 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (clayman @ Apr 19 2007, 12:12 AM) | ||
:agree: Dang, Lynn! You and me must have grown up together. 'Course I'm 250... |
OK wait, let me clarify...I was refering to Seige's weight - NOT mine. I'm not 235!
Guess I should have quoted his thread!!