Wednesday, July 14, 2010

When Teens Terrify Parents

When Teens Terrify Parents

PoliticsDaily.com featured an unusual item for PoliticsDaily.com. Instead of its usual political news and analysis, the story had to do with hickeys, young passion, and bruised lips.

Well, yes and no.

The introductory paragraph dealt with those mostly-teen activities as a lead-in to an article by Suzy Parker, “Vampire Love Bites and Lady Gaga Eyes: Teen Trends Terrify Parents,” which was somewhat more serious.

It seems the current craze of vampirism ignited by the Twilight movies rage has inspired a new passtime for the teeny set. They’ve taken the simple hickey to a whole new dimension, actually biting and drawing blood from their love-of-the-month.

As if that were not bad enough, another phenomenon named Lady Gaga has rendered many young girls so gaga over Gaga that they are buying and wearing supersized contact lenses called “circle lenses” in order to replicate their heroine’s eyes at a risk to their own.

I don’t know which is worse, deep, bloody love bites which could result in transmission of diseases, including HIV and AIDS, or circle lenses which are illegal in the United States but obtainable over the internet and which can cause serious eye infections. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1785)

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