We came across a most disturbing article in the Jewish feminist magazine Lilith about the social epidemic of girls as young as 12 giving blow-jobs in return for popularity. “Oral sex is so common now, people don’t even think of it as bad anymore,” says one 13 year-old. “It’s cool if you do it.” And they’re doing it- at school, at the back of the bus (“I was bored”), even at bar and bat mitzvah parties. It’s all one-way- that is, girls on guys- so the slut stigma doesn’t apply since the girls keep their pants on. Some parents not only know about it, but condone this, arguing that everyone’s still a virgin, so no harm done, right?
Um, we hate to sound like prudes here, but a lot has changed in the 20 years since our bar/bat mitzvah season. First of all, if any girl stuck a penis in her mouth back then, she’d be vilified as the skank she was. Second, even though this the traditional age of adulthood for Jews, aren’t these junior high students (who dress like porn fantasies in their teeny tops and platform shoes) still (at least partly) children? We know that movies like Thirteen and other exposes about the secret life of teens are just telling it like it us, but we can’t help thinking this is so icky. 13, dude! Too young! Guess that means we’re old.
Although the full article in not online yet, you can order a back issue here.
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Man, that’s pretty messed up. I guess this is the world that we’ve created through the oversexualized media.
A little disturbing. Don’t think I want kids anymore.
This article is inappropriate to post on a dating site.
This is a site about Jewish life, and whether gg37 likes it or not, this is part of it.
I blame Brittany Spears not Jmerica.
I agree with Jessica, your typical “dating” site would not post up articles about Yom Kippur, Kabbalah, or how to spruce up your Shabbat evenings. When I clicked on the little Jmerica ad on yahoo It said Jewish life and so far i’ts delivered on its promise. Limiting it to just Dating would not be of any interest to me. But its good that gg37 expressed his/her oppion, thats what this site should be about!
I remember when a French Kiss was the Big Thing! Wow, I am living in the wrong generation. Now I am saying I remember when I was that age. We never did that, not that I would have turned it down or anything.