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  • Polanski

    Just because an adult is sexually stimulated by the sight or actions of a child does not excuse his actions. Your author attempts to excuse Polanski by saying the thirteen-year-old victim he raped behaved provocatively. So where does this slippery slope end? With the three-year-old tot who has learned that ''flirting'' melts an adult and yields ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Mary Golden on October 14, 2009

  • Teen's having babies

    Based on the recent (December 2008) study, looking back on 28 years of screen-time (mostly television), excessive use of screens promotes early and risky sexual activity. With young people watching hours of television, spending hours more on line, with games and texts, it is no surprise that that they crave some kind of physical contact with real ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Robert Kesten on March 21, 2009

  • Sexual Hypocrisy, Law Enforcement & the InterNET

    Thanks for a very interesting and thoughtful article that addressed current events, came up with new approaches, and put it all together neatly in one, entertaining article. My view on those folks who would employ our law enforcement authorities to charge and convict individual InterNET users, is somewhat different. I see these forceful, legal ...
    Posted to Human Nature by MichaelBernard1 on July 8, 2008

  • Are we overreacting?

    Puberty being activated is not an indication that girls are ready to look for mates. The girls bodies and minds are not ready to reproduce and they are not prepared to make adult decisions about the risks of sex. False advertising about sexuality is risky. Women who are taught at a young age that men are the whole reason for being are hardly ...
    Posted to Fashion by sldcowen on June 17, 2008

  • Agreed

    While it may be true that skimpy fashion has existed for young girls in the past, I would have to say that the fashion industry has taken it beyond what it used to be. The word pre-teen first started in the 60s...but it seems that the fashion industry and the media have hyperbolized that stage of life so much, that people in that age group begin ...
    Posted to Fashion by mmchristian1121 on June 9, 2008

  • A Man's Rant: Spandex and Public viewing

    After going to the gym nearly everyday over the past couple weeks, I am compelled to rant on a matter of public decorum which is visually distracting but seems to escape all public mention. WEARING SPANDEX CLOTHING IN PUBLIC WITH NOTHING OVER IT IS IMMODEST, PROVOCATIVE, AND at the very least PUBLICLY OBTUSE and at worst PUBLICLY SALACIOUS. ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by Usama2 on January 4, 2008

  • Preadolescence and society

    I've read alot of the comments on teens and fashion and realizing there is one common thing involved that most don't realize. The mental state. If I person reads or looks at something that is to be taken as sexually explict or provocative then that's what it becomes. If one looks at the same thing as cute then that too is what it becomes. This ...
    Posted to Fashion by Politically Correct on August 29, 2007

  • reality check

    Usually, I welcome and respect what Mr. Hitchens has to write. I find him enlightened, generally. He lost me, however, with this piece on Paris Hilton. Since when do we describe a wealthy, powerful woman as a ''sobbing, helpless child''? She is, in fact, 26 years old, with the best representation money can buy. Mr. Hitchens is contributing ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by PTDavis on June 11, 2007