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On what planet? I am 50 years old and when I was 14 I wore a bikini to the beach as did most of my friends. After all-it is the beach where you wear bathing suits. I also wore a bikini when I went in the pool.
As far a 14 year old girls hanging out with 17 year old boys how would you prevent it? After all, they go to school together. They live in the same neighborhoods. They have been friends for a long time. Some of them know each other because they have older siblings. 17 year old boys are not monsters that should be kept away from civilized society.
Some of my friends still had 1-piece suits at 14, and my mom and my aunts wouldn't let me and my cousins wear bikinis at that age. It depends on the individual kids involved, but it raises questions about why someone who's close to entering college would be interested in someone just out of middle school.
This forum is very different from the Relationships forum; there, most of the moms feel that 17- and 18-year-olds dating or hanging around 14-year-olds is somewhat predatory, inappropriate, and a potential statutory rape case waiting to happen.
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Some of friends still had 1-piece suits at 14, and my mom and my aunts wouldn't let me and my cousins wear bikinis at that age. It depends on the individual kids involved, but it raises questions about why someone who's close to entering college would be interested in someone just out of middle school.
This forum is very different from the Relationships forum; there, most of the moms feel that 17- and 18-year-olds dating or hanging around 14-year-olds is somewhat predatory, inappropriate, and a potential statutory rape case waiting to happen.
We have no idea how old the teens were in the OP, only an opinion. It is highly likely both the boys and the girls were close in age. Not that it matters, because that doesn't seem to be the issue here. The behavior of the girls only has been called into question. Which is odd, imo.
I just came back from the beach today. I saw multiple groups of teens, probably between 14-17 yr olds in different groups. Girls wearing really revealing bikinis and some making out with boys and definitely very sexually active judging by their physical actions. I know it's none of my business but as a parent myself and also I was once a teenager that I could understand this but I just thought while it's harmless. Not sure the parents of some of those teenage girls would approve of their daughter's behavior with boys at this age.
It just takes a longer time for biological evolution to catch up with societal evolution.
My great -grandmother was married at 14 but girls then were raised in preparation for that.
At 14 a girl knew how to keep a home & raise children. Tyoically the girls were married to older men but a teenage boy knew how to hunt, farm, protect & provide for women & children.
Just because 100 years ago or so we decided to change the rules does not mean biology changes that fast.
I call baloney. In 1890, when my g-grandmother was a girl, the average age of marriage for a woman was just north of twenty-two. The youngest average age of first marriage for women in the last century was 20.3 in 1950. My gg-grandmother was married in 1863 at the age of twenty. If your g-grandmother married at 14, she was an outlier.
Some of my friends still had 1-piece suits at 14, and my mom and my aunts wouldn't let me and my cousins wear bikinis at that age. It depends on the individual kids involved, but it raises questions about why someone who's close to entering college would be interested in someone just out of middle school.
And some parents still have these rules. Some don't. What's your point?
Some girls choose to wear one-piece bathing suits. Some girls prefer bikinis. Some girls like both and choose based on the situation.
Just like always, teen behavior runs the gamut. Why is anyone surprised that teens at the beach are trying to get each other's attention and attraction?
And the OP mentioned 14-17 year olds, not only 14 year olds. He didn't know how old any of these kids were. When you were in high school, freshmen never dated juniors or seniors? That didn't raise many eyebrows when I was a teen.
This is the type of thing I was talking about in my previous post. This mindset that you shouldn't look at them regardless of the fact that you're out in public as they are and everybody is people-watching to some extent. Some people dress to catch the eye so to speak and some don't.
No you shouldn't look at the teenagers in bathing suits and then complain solely about the young women as if they were solely responsible for everything.
I disagree with this. I think women should value their bodies and not expose it for public consumption.Moderator cut: delete Parity between male and female doesn't have to be direct.
Females should respect their bodies so they don't get exploited.
How is wearing the latest fashion in bikinis not valuing one's body.
If anything, revealing one's body shows that the person values her body.
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