We now have "Youthologists"

Watching a bad show this afternoon, I felt as if I had stumbled upon a peep show. It was all about teenage girls and what they consider "sex". It seems that everything except the act of procreation itself is not considered sex. There they were, appearing with their mothers no less, talking about a form of partying that can only be described as "speed sex" -- kinda like speed dating, but this involved every act you could think of and how it all worked. Apparently, the girls make a list of everything they would like to do, and with whom they would like to do it, and then go from one boy to the next doing these things in a group. Remember how we used to dance together at parties? Well, things have definitely shifted big time.

It was appalling and very scary. The stupid mothers just sat there while their daughters talked about the typical Friday night. Then a bunch of doctors chimed in warning that although this form of "dating" can be very empowering for girls -- whaaaat???!!! -- you still have to be mindful of those annoying STD's. What a pain it all is, trying to stay safe while rushing from one guy to the next, trying to remember what precautions to use for what act. The crowning touch came when one 15-year-old said that she and most of her friends practiced anal sex, so they wouldn't have to actually engage in intercourse. This way they could remain "virgins" I kid you not!!!! And this was mainstream, prime time afternoon TV! Nevermind the obesity epidemic in the US. This is off the charts!

The doctors and "experts" who were most in favour of all this "empowering" were the women on the panel. They acted as if this were some new form of women's lib because the girls were in the driver's seat, so to speak. Especially the "youthologist". She was perfect. Since when do we have to have youthologists? I guess since mothers packed it in. Now these morons have to rely on experts to tell them that anal intercourse is not a great idea at 15 (or ever). I could go on, but I won't.

Talking this morning about bizarre behaviour, I recalled that our mothers and grandmothers didn't rely on experts to tell them what was happening to Mrs. Smith next door, or Mrs. Jones' daughter down the street. If Mrs. Smith went berserk and killed her husband -- or worse left him -- there was no psychological explanation. Mrs. Smith just..."took a notion". Plain and simple. And if Mrs. Jones' daughter got "in the family way", Mrs. Jones' daughter was just a bad girl. Plain and simple. People "took notions", someone was "just born that way", people had "nervous breakdowns" (whatever that meant), people went "queer", someone was eccentric, someone else was "odd", those people were "different", the wild boy down the street was just "going through a phase". All deviations were tidily described and summarily dismissed before breakfast. As a kid I found it emminently easier to handle the out-of-the-ordinary without a psychiatric analysis and a talk show attached.