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GeekyGirl -> RE: Squick or squish (curious) (3/7/2007 3:12:13 PM)
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ORIGINAL: hereyesruponyou
Maybe it's more suburban??? I don't know, probably not the best choice of words, but it's kinda the age thing i think. it's the way things were portrayed on tv as we were growing up. Those nice "normal" people. My parents also raised me with the idea that sex was not bad but it was an only for marriage thing if you were going to be a "respectable girl". My 1st husband actually asked me to marry him when he did because we were moving in together and going to marry in 6 months anyhow, but his father made him feel he would be ruining my reputation if we lived together.
The journey has been a long one from there. It has made me very adamant about how i raise my UM as far as portraying anything related to sex as flat out wrong (except for rape and abuse of course). I want her to know it is good to be open and i think she has much lower barriers to the ideas, even though she is in general much more of a prude than i was at her age.
So perhaps not so much social status as a generational thing? I grew up in the suburbs and then later in rural area. I'm not sure what your age is, but I'm 24. My mother is 44. I think sex was more prominent on tv and in the media when I was growing up than it was for older generations, plus during my teenage year we had that wonderful thing called "THE INTERNET". All the information you could ever want right at your fingertips, and of course this was when the internet was new and websites were still easier for minors to gain access to, and parents had not yet learned about parental controls and such.
I grew up watching Married With Children, South Park, the Simpsons...a lot different from my mother's generation. I also came from a fairly liberal home and my mother firmly believed in living together for an extended time prior to marriage.
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