ABC News previewed a short clip of Oral Sex is the New Goodnight Kiss a while back. The documentary captures pre-teen and teen-age girls discussing oral sex – and prostitution – as casually as the weather. Ordinary girls from middle- and upper-middle class families who see no harm in offering their bodies for money, homework, or a new handbag.
“Five minutes and I got $100. If I’m going to sleep with them anyway because they’re good-looking, might as well get paid for it, right?”
“This is the bitter fruit of forty years of feminist domination in the United States,” writes Pamela Geller, who argues that the public schools, the culture, and the children in them have been poisoned by the left’s attitude toward sex.
This is how the phony feminist movement empowered women? Girls selling the it for a handbag? Those men-hating parasites ruined the glorious exaltation of women in 20th-century America.
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All one has to do is watch movies from the forties, fifties, and sixties (before the left culture rout) to catch a glimpse of the status of women. We were then formidable, respected, treasured, and above all … revered. It was as good as it gets.
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[This film] speaks volumes about how girls view themselves and their roles, not to mention the ever-increasing diminishing of women in American society.
Handbags and cash are poor substitutes for dignity and self-respect, it turns out, and prostitutes rarely convert a hook-up into a ”Pretty Woman” relationship with a john.
“A lot of girls are disappointed in love,” film producer Sharlene Azam told ABC News. “I think they believe they can hook-up the way guys do and not care, but — unfortunately — they do care.”
Sad.
I’m sorry, but this “documentary” is ludicrous. 12-year-olds going to sex parties? Middle-class high school prostitutes?! This is mainstream media sensationalism taken to the extreme. I don’t buy it.
I don’t doubt that 54% of girls 15-19 have had oral sex, but that number isn’t that shocking, since it presumably includes a lot of 18- and 19-year-old women. (Not 15-year-old “prostitutes.”) ABC found a tiny handful of girls to make outrageous claims in order to tittilate the audience. “Pretty girls from the best families” are the most at risk? That’s not true. Every credible study indicates that poor girls from single-parent homes have sex younger, get more STDs, and make up the huge majority of teen mothers. But, of course, underprivileged girls with real problems don’t make for salacious TV.
Prostitution is one of those things that divides feminists. Many feel it’s un-feminist because it’s all about the men’s satisfaction and exploits women, so calling it the bitter fruit of feminism is at the very least naive on Ms. Gellars part, at worst down right disingenuous and agenda-pushing.
More importantly though, this is an example of bad parenting. If one still wanted to blame feminism, it would be more to the effect of because of the increased need for a two income household mothers are working instead of being full time mothers. In short, bad parenting is to blame for this, not feminism. That whole nature / nurture thing again.
Feminism didn’t cause prostitution. Haven’t you ever heard the phrase, “The world’s oldest profession?”