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by Barry Artiste | April 1, 2009 at 03:53 am
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Barry Artiste Op/Ed
I wish this story was an April Fools Joke, sadly it isn't. Canada is not the only country where this is practised, I saw a documentary where Japanese high schoolers were doing much the same to score some Bling!
As it is said in this story, impressionable girls who are influenced by music and gang culture. That is a sedate way of putting it, has anyone ever seen a Rap Gangsta video which practises normalcy? Not likely, yet it is prominent in these videos, with the words interspersed in most of the lyrics such as Bitches and Hos, Drugs, Bling, Escalades bought with love and a gun. Is it any wonder these children are influenced? Certainly disturbing at best. So in ending, Society and this Gangsta Rap Culture are a big part of the blame!
EDMONTON -- Somewhere in the city, children as young as 11 and 12 are gathering in basements and playing intricate, graphic sex games.
I first heard about these parties a few years ago from my 12-year-old daughter, who said kids at her school played games where each girl had to perform oral sex on several boys.
Naively, I dismissed the story as another urban myth, like Pop Rocks causing heart attacks and maggots in milk-shake machines.
Turns out, these parties are very real and frighteningly commonplace.
Edmonton is featured in a new book and documentary DVD called Oral Sex is the New Goodnight Kiss by Sharlene Azam, where she explores "the growing phenomenon of middle-class girls trading sex for money, drugs and luxury goods."
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at 03:58 on April 1st, 2009
i would have wish the same thing as you did Barry.
at 04:15 on April 1st, 2009
Scary, they're too young yet. They should be playing with barbies and such.
at 04:28 on April 1st, 2009
Barbies, just do not have a cache of designer clothes and bling, featured in Rap Videos and Gangsta Video games now do they?
at 05:13 on April 1st, 2009
With the internet, this generation is to exposed to porn and forced too early to "grow" up. This isn't a healthy omen for the future. In a warped way I understand the Muslim fear of secularization. Their actions are not the answer but nevertheless this display of "easy" sex for pay from such young kids is an indictment on our present situation. A warning sign to say the least. Innocence lost.
at 05:51 on April 1st, 2009
One can be sure if this happened in an Islamic country, Beheadings galore would be enforced on the sickos who took advantage of these children. And who says they would be wrong to do it?
at 06:17 on April 1st, 2009
This is awful
at 10:35 on April 1st, 2009
My friend, "Reactionary Within", says, "maybe it is time to bring back repression!"
Seriously, though, what these very modern kids lack is a modern-day version of "fear of the Lord", a sense that they are playing with fire, that the adults know something about life and that they should respect these adults. The lack of fear also allows the most ridiculous concept that more extreme secularists push to be believed, that " it is only sex".
This is part of the de-spiritualization of today's world.
at 10:09 on April 1st, 2009
Maybe this is their rebellious attempt to find some kind of balance or equilibrium in a world that exists only in the extremes.
One side it is pure supression and medieval laws and on the other it is complete lawlessness called freedom for everything.
.Agent.
at 10:15 on April 1st, 2009
No, we don't have pure repression anymore.
This is the result of de-spiritualization, of teaching kids that sex is only biological and that we are only biological, that we have no abstract essence that must be respected in ourselves and in others.
This is libertine behavior by prematurely sexualized kids who are afraid to say "no" to their peers, raised by parents too tired and too busy to pay attention to them and create real bonds with their kids.
at 10:40 on April 1st, 2009
Well said Roy. I think you got it.
at 21:06 on April 1st, 2009
Thanks ROy and everyone for your comments.
at 15:09 on April 5th, 2009
I was really interested in the posts from your readers. In your intro, you mention Japan and the problem (they call it, compensated dating) is even bigger there and less hidden. Until a few years ago, you could buy used girls' underwear from vending machines. Girls sell their underwear and it comes with a photo of the girl.
The culture is a big part of the problem. Parents have given up control to Girls Gone Wild. Even Dora was recently released as a Bratz style teen.
The comment about "de-spiritualization" is interesting because the girls I met really needed boundaries. They didn't have the language they needed to extricate themselves from uncomfortable situations with boys. It was easy to bully them into giving a blow job. Some of the girls talked about their behavior escalating in part because they stopped caring about their bodies.
I'm hoping the book really will be a warning for parents. Thanks for letting me post to your site. I included the url to my site: www.thenewgoodnightkiss.com