Posted by
Gene on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:11:24 AM
Published July 15th, 2008
For some reason, Part One of this very mini-series resulted in quite a rise in interest. Some clarification is in order.
Salon.com had published a piece by Lynn Harris, entitled, “The Rainbow Party Is Over,” http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/05/21/teens_oral_sex/, which I referenced in Part One on July 13th, 2008.
I had not given the details or even an explanation of Harris’ title, and, out of delicacy, nor does she except to provide a link which obfuscates the subject even more, except to say, “rainbow parties are group oral sex parties in which each girl wears a different shade of lipstick, and each guy tries to emerge sporting every one of the various colors.” (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/30/fashion/thursdaystyles/30rainbow.html)
That 3 year old article assumes the reader can figure the location of the various lipstick stains, but dismisses it all as “suburban legend” and cites a 4 year old study that found that only 12 % of teen girls, 13-17, (now 50 %), had engaged in oral sex and a minuscule number had attended oral sex parties of any sort. The Washington Post even jumped into the fray: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/19/AR2008051901219.html?nav=rss_nation, as did the Guttmacher Institute, http://www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/2008/05/20/index.html, which felt it imperative to cloud the issue of normal teens with stats on homosexuals. All felt it necessary to incorporate commentary on teens and anal sex.
More to the point is the semi-raging debate over what teens are doing as a consequence of their blazing hormones, ...