Summary
Schoolgirls in short skirts. There, I've got your attention, haven't I? There is nothing which your average British male loves more than pretty schoolgirls in miniskirts, unless it is pretending to disapprove of schoolgirls in miniskirts. The reason why is very simple. Most men developed adolescent fantasies and, being creatures of arrested development, have never matured enough to shake them off. Underlying this is the fact young girls do not present a challenge to man's emotional intelligence in the way women do. They're just a pleasingly abstract sexual fantasy and they make men feel young again.
And that, to be honest, is sufficient amateur psychology for one column. But my point is this: in most cases, schoolgirls remain a harmless male fantasy. Lolita was literature; she wasn't real. There is nothing more sinister about teenage girls who roll their skirts above regulation height and flaunt their legs, than there is in the middle-aged men who avert their eyes and then confide in their mates from the safety of the golf course: "Phew, talk about jailbait!" The process is an integral part of growing up; it has been going on since time immemorial and the first hormone-riddled schoolgirl to realise that if she flashed a pretty ankle, she not only felt daring and individual; she attracted attention from the boys.See the full content of this document
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Don't Blame the Girls: It's the Adults Who Have a Problem
One might assume that, given the cyclical nature of life and fashion, and a wise, broad-minded society, we would rationalise these things. But no. These days we perceive the world as a far more threatening place and see paedophilia and sexual danger everywhere. Teenage...
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