{"id":2852,"date":"2006-01-21T05:51:11","date_gmt":"2006-01-21T10:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2006\/01\/21\/life-must-be-good-in-school-these-days\/"},"modified":"2006-01-21T05:51:11","modified_gmt":"2006-01-21T10:51:11","slug":"life-must-be-good-in-school-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2006\/01\/21\/life-must-be-good-in-school-these-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Life must be good in school these days…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The first time I heard a mother of girls talk about the teenage oral-sex craze, I made her cry. The story she told me — about a bar mitzvah dinner dance on the North Shore of Chicago, where the girls serviced all the boys on the chartered bus from the temple to the reception hall — was so preposterous that I burst out laughing. The thought of thirteen-year-old girls in party dresses performing a sex act once considered the province of prostitutes<\/em><\/strong> (we are talking here about the on-your-knees variety given to a series of near strangers) was so ludicrous that all I could do was giggle.<\/p>\n

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Somehow these girls have developed the indifferent attitude toward performing oral sex that one would associate with bitter, long-married women or streetwalkers. But they think of themselves as normal teenagers, version 2005. For a while, whenever I passed groups of young girls, I looked at them anew. Were these nice kids — the ones playing AYSO soccer and doing their homework and shopping with their moms — behaving like little whores whenever they got the chance?<\/em><\/strong> It was like some weird search for communists — was the sweet, well-spoken daughter of a friend actually a blowjobber? I looked at the small girls in my children’s schoolyard — as cosseted and protected and beloved a group of children as you will find anywhere on the planet — and tried to convince myself that in a matter of five or six years they would be performing oral sex on virtual strangers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Powell’s Books – Review-a-Day – Rainbow Party by Paul Ruditis, reviewed by The Atlantic Monthly<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first time I heard a mother of girls talk about the teenage oral-sex craze, I made her cry. The story she told me — about a bar mitzvah dinner dance on the North Shore of Chicago, where the girls serviced all the boys on the chartered bus from the temple to the reception hall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}