High School Car Washes: Charitable Fundraiser or Teenage Sex Romp?

[Jara sang]

An expose:
Driving around any mid-size town on a Saturday you will inevitably see High School students standing on sidewalks of major thoroughfares promoting a school car wash fundraiser. Often times these kids are dressed provocatively with young ladies wearing bikini tops and young gentlemen wearing shorts with their shirts off. So, are these kids using their flesh as advertising or are they merely wearing the appropriate attire for washing ones car? Are they exploring their sexuality in a time honored tradition? What do you think?

[emanymton]

1. Nothing Wrong I See. I'll Be Banned and This Thred(t) Locked Soon.

[Jara sang]

3. Why do you think that?

Seriously, we were driving by a charitable car wash today and my friend turns to me and says "You know, that is why the Muslim world hates us" and I said what do you mean? And she said "Because we let women run around like that." She is no prude either.

[emanymton]

5. I Trust People To Decide For Themselves ...

Some Muslims in the world hate us. "Because we let women run around like that" is the excuse for hating us not the reason.

Regardless, I see nothing wrong in people enjoying themselves. It is their right and my pleasure. It is freedom.

Freedom is frightening to some. Not to me. And I expect to be banned and this thread(t) to be locked.

[Goldmund]

16. LOL

I'm sure it has nothing to do with that imperialism thingie. :eyes:

[Jara sang]

43. We haven't imposed our imperialism on Saudi Arabia

yet most of the hijackers were from that country. They also have the most stringent laws against women.

[Goldmund]

51. You're right.

It's the car washes.

You're onto something here... The next step in the war against terrorism: close high school car washes, or at least make all them kids die from heat exhaustion.

[MADem]

2. Clearly, they are doing both

Raising money with a little skin, it is a time honored 'Murkin tradition, after all. Would those guys stay after the first half, were their team losing irrevocably, if not for the beer and cheerleaders? It's only been in recent decades that cars have NOT been sold by draping some impossibly sexy woman across the hood.

Was it really Darwin who coined the phrase, SEX SELLS?

[gmoney]

4. Bless them...

...they're also good studies in anarchy

[salin]

6. Did this when I was in highschool

swimsuits under t's and shorts. Not like this is some new phenomenon. And if it was some sex romp... or flesh selling to get cars to get washed... I had no idea. :shrug:

[JAbuchan08]

7. What would you wash a car in?

A double breasted tuxedo?

[Jara sang]

9. Utility coveralls

:evilgrin:

[NewJeffCT]

8. well, sex sells

always has been true, always will be... even after the fundies turn this country into a theocracy.

[Sean Reynolds]

10. And you'd expect them to wash these cars in what....

This?



Wee! I just got my nice sweater all soapy and wet. It's 102 outside and I feel like I'm in hell.....

I wonder, do you think going to the beach is all about fun or just a sex romp too?

[Jara sang]

11. In a lot of countries it is inappropriate to wear shorts.

In the tropics for instance you will rarely see men wearing shorts for it is seen as juvenile. Also in other countries it is considered offensive to wear "beach attire" away from the beach.

[LoZoccolo]

13. Well, we're not in those other countries, are we?

:woohoo:

And as far as the Muslim world hating us, even Osama bin Laden, the biggest Muslim terrorist, said that if he hated other countries for their freedom he would have attacked Sweden...but he didn't. But I wouldn't care what he thinks anyways.

[Jara sang]

40. Damn

It was just an observation, relax. I don't care either way.

[Jara sang]

72. Wow, I didn't realize the internet was isolated to just the United States

Looks like you are claiming cyberspace for the good ole U.S. of A. :patriot: You go right at. I applaud your exclusion of others and your exuberance for your country.:applause:

[LoZoccolo]

80. Uh no.

This is a message board which centers itself on the Democratic Party in the USA, right?

[Sean Reynolds]

15. And?

We're not in other countries...we're in America.

In other countries it's ok to stone a girl for showing part of her leg, that doesn't make it right...nor something we should do in America.

I'm not offended at the sight of skin and I'm sure as hell not going to ask women OR men to cover up when they're out at the beach. Life is too short to heed these stupid rules. If people want to wear shorts and bathing suits while washing a car...more power to them!

I didn't see any sex going on in that photo...no crotch eating, anal slamming or hair pulling. To me it looks like good ol' clean, and yes pun intended, fun.

I think as a society we're all getting too uptight over trivial matters. Sex in movies, girls in bathing suits on the store magazine racks.....

I honestly believe it's time we bring back Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

Oh oh
Wee-ell-now!

Relax don’t do it
When you want to go to it
Relax don’t do it
When you want to come
Relax don’t do it
When you want to come
When you want to come

Relax don’t do it
When you want to to go to it
Relax don’t do it
When you want to come
Relax don’t do it
When you want to suck it to it
Relax don’t do it
When you want to come
Come-oh oh oh

But shoot it in the right direction
Make making it your intention-ooh yeah
Live those dreams
Scheme those schemes
Got to hit me
Hit me
Hit me with those laser beams

I’m coming
I’m coming-yeah

Relax don’t do it
When you want to go to it
Relax don’t do it
When you want to come

Relax don’t do it
When you want to suck it to it
Relax don’t do it (love)
When you want to come
When you want to come
When you want to come
Come-huh

Get it up
The scene of love
Oh feel it

Relax relax relax
Higher higher relax

Now’s the time, it’s party time

Hey

Ok, maybe not the best song to quote when talking about sex romp.....but take his advice...relax and come. You'll feel a lot better.

:D

[BamaLefty]

79. LOL

YAY GREAT POST! :toast:

[Book Lover]

12. I'm a shorts and t-shirt kind of person myself

But whatever. At least if this were done at my high school, I'd be let off the hook due to my big butt. I see only the skinny kids are allowed to do the car washing (at least according to your photos).

And if "the Muslim world hates us" because we don't legislate prudery (per your later post, and is a flawed premise anyway), then I for one am happy to be hated.

[Fleshdancer]

14. I think the bigger outrage is...

that students have to do fundraisers to pay for their school activities. The Al Franken show had an educator from California on his show this past week and she said it perfectly: "education should be treated like a failed missile system".

I only participated in a car wash fundraiser once when I was in high school. I wore denim overalls over my bathing suit and the majority of girls there also had clothes on over their bathing suits because we weren't very happy with our bodies.

I can't speak for other women, but my teenage years consisted of me wanting to feel sexy and beautiful but never achieving that feeling. My body image was WAY too bad to view my participation in a car wash as a sex romp. Others may have thought that when looking at me, but I certainly never came to that conclusion.

[Zuni]

18. I don't agree

While I do agree far too much tax money is spent on asinine projects like missle shields, I think that fundraisers and other after school activities are good for kids. They teach work ethic, they keep kids out of trouble, and allow the kids to particpiate in their own programs. Besides, I did some of these things when I was younger and they were fun, a chance to hang out with your friends and do something other than smoke reefer

[Sean Reynolds]

20. And boy did I love the after school orgies.

;-)

[Zuni]

22. Well, that was the best part of any fundraiser

when we all got nekkid and did the whole 'group grope' thingy

[Lars39]

23. I can understand fundraising for a special trip.

What is totally wrong is to charge students a hefty fee to even
participate in student activiies.
Taxes used to and should be covering these things.

[Zuni]

24. That is usually what the fundraisers are for

that or to buy new, expensive athletic stuff or maybe new instruments for the band

Taxes still pay for schools

[Lars39]

25. Yes, for the most part,

but there also used to not be student fees.

[Zuni]

26. student fees?

I never had to pay anything to go to school or participate in school programs, and this was within the last 10 years.
Here in Maryland we do not have anything like that in Public schools

[antigone382]

30. I graduated in 2003, and I had to pay fees for some of my classes.

$12 for art class (for supplies like paper, pencils, brushes, etc.), $60 for chorus (for the dress and the music), and $40 for theatre (for the costume and the set). Now, the latter two did involve after school activities, but art class didn't; there was an additional fee of $11 to join art club.

[Rabrrrrrr]

31. Many schools ARE starting to charge activity fees, though

in the $30-50 range each semester. I have friends who are paying these for their children, and if memory serves - though I could be wrong - it might even be, for some, a separate charge for each activity (that is, one for band, one for football, one for basketball, etc.)

For those with a number of kids in school at one time, it's quite a burden. And for those who are quite poor.

[Lars39]

33. Yep.

Student fees have been around for a while here.

[realisticphish]

74. at least half the schools in central ohio

even the rich schools, make the kids pay hundreds of dollars a year to be in band, or football, or drama

[Massacure]

58. Life isn't all fun and games.

Kids should have to work for things they want. Besides, it isn't like a carwash is manual labor. Carwashing may be work, but as a 16 year old, I say it is fun work. :)

[mark414]

17. can't it be both?

:shrug:

[Zuni]

19. In some Muslim countries, women can't show their faces

so women should wear Burkas so we don't piss of a bunch of religious misogynists?

[Jara sang]

38. No I am not saying that

If you want your kids to run around dressed like little sex machines I don't really give a fuck.

[name not needed]

60. So wearing a bathing suit makes one a "little sex machine"?

[Jara sang]

62. You don't think little girls wearing reveling clothing is inappropriate?

And I have actually seen 13 year olds with that slogan or something similar on their clothing. So yes they are "little sex machines" as per their clothing choices and per the clothing manufacturers decree.

[name not needed]

65. Define young, and then define revealing.

[Left Is Write]

21. We "let" them run around like...what?

In t-shirts, shorts, and shocking one-piece team swimsuits?

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

56. *GASP*

ONE PIECE BATHING SUITS... TOTALLY HEDONISTIC

[Jara sang]

59. See post #46

[name not needed]

61. PUT YOUR BHURKA ON, YOU SATAN WORSHIPPING HARLOT

:P

[JohnKleeb]

63. in soviet russia, bhurka wears you

[name not needed]

64. In America, I shoot Yakov Smirnoff

[JohnKleeb]

66. oh man thats what I call Davy Crocket meets Peter the Great

:rofl:

[sasquatch]

76. LOL!!

:rofl:

[Name removed]

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[Trajan]

28. Just chuckles .....

Free Stupid Pills ? ...

WHERE ! ? ! ....

[Zuni]

29. oops

[Name removed]

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[Trajan]

32. One piece bathing suits are provocative ? ...

Chuckles ... Shorts ? ...

Teenage sex romp, in one piece bathing suits, and shorts ? ...

Cmon ...

[Jara sang]

37. That wasn't the point.

Do you think it is appropriate to wear a bikini out and about town, especially a thirteen year old girl? I personally don't give a shit.

[Bzzzz]

34. I don't care about the flesh...

I just wish they'd have the car washes in the shade. You should never wash a car in the sun, that's why I won't stop at any of them.

[leftofthedial]

35. adolescence is on ebig teenage sex romp

who's to complain if they're at least good and clean

[ghostsofgiants]

39. Note to self: Buy a car

[DS1]

41. Now I'm curious, is the car wash scene in Bring It On pseudo-child porn?

I mean, are they ~all~ supposed to be 18 or older?

FUCKING :sarcasm:

[Jara sang]

42. Jesus I was trying to fucking make light of teens car washes

and it fucking turns into a fucking flamefest. Seems people are a little tense.

[Pithlet]

44. Yep

The lounge has turned into a nasty place.

[salin]

45. *sigh*

very sad.

[DS1]

47. see edit

:eyes:

[Pithlet]

49. I wasn't referring to your post.

I was referring to Matcoms hostile post. I don't think the OPs post, whether or not anyone agrees with it, warrented even one tenth of the hostility in his post. I think the OP wasn't just referring to your post either, which is why I made the general comment.

Why the rolleyes? Man.

[DS1]

53. didn't see matcom's post

so I had no idea why the lounge was so 'nasty'

[Pithlet]

55. The past couple of days

Have been the worst I've ever seen.

[salin]

57. worst ever

and I have seen some ugly incidents.

[DS1]

46. Dude, that was the most platonic post I've done all day

It's not something I actually CARE about, but it did give me reason to wonder.

Have some ass

[Jara sang]

48. No, I know you weren't trying to flame me

I didn't realize this was such a touchy subject. I guess it touches on issues like freedom of expression and sexuality that may rub some people the wrong way. And then my statement about Muslims didn't really help, which my friend said and I tend to agree with. Muslim countries call us "the great Satan" Why? I believe part of it is they think that we are morally bankrupt. However some people chose to take my post as an admonishment for returning women's dress codes in this country back to the Victorian era, which I was not trying to do at all.

[Catherine Vincent]

68. Wow! Now that's what you call hot.

But if my niece or daughter wore a bikini like that I'd be pissed.

[GOPFighter]

50. Youthful exuberence, a little skin, lots of laughs

Hell go for it. Enjoy life. Enjoy looking good. Frolic. Smile. Laugh a lot. No harm, no foul.

[Goldmund]

52. You're a despicable heathen.

:evilgrin:

[GOPFighter]

69. And a hedonist

:woohoo:

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

54. Um

Well, in the last picture I bet those girls are all a part of swim team, because they're wearing matching suits. and I bet they're raising money for *gasp* their swim team. My soccer team had a carwash and we wore jerseys and our bathing suits.

What else would you wash a car in? A floor length dress? :eyes:

[sundog]

67. it's only a sex romp if...

Jara sang is doing the washing :P

otherwise, it's harmless fun :)

[Trajan]

70. Oh ... I 'get the point', alright ....

Perhaps YOU arent getting the point ? ..

>ALL 'muslims hate us' comments are WAY too broad ... 'ALL' muslims DONT hate us ... some do, many dont .. Therefore, the premise of your statement is false ...

>The pictures you have chosen to show are not, in fact, salacious or lewd, by 'our standards' ... Those are NOT bikinis, they are one piece suits with an open back: hardly harlot fashions ...

>'Some' muslims hate us ... 'Some' hindus hate us ... 'Some' Bahai's hate us ... 'Some' christians hate us ... 'Some' muslims love us ... 'Some' hindus love us ... 'Some' Bahai's love us ... 'Some' christians love us ....

I would venture to guess tht MOST people are too busy trying to survive to spend alot of time 'hating' vast groups of people .... You present a crass, simplistic, and narrow-minded vision of 'people' and their feelings ...

> Last but not least: Freedom ....

I love america .. NOT because it wins wars .. NOT because citizens get rich .. NOT because church meets on sundays ...

I love it because I am FREE from the influence of misguided moralists who wish to control the natural behaviors of human beings everywhere ... male, female, gay, straight ...

I am FREE .... especially from worrying about what some extremist theocrat of ANY religion, be it muslim, hindu, jewish OR christian, might think, say, do, imply, or thunder ...

That, unfortunately, is changing here in the US .. but that is another subject ....

Summary: you pose a question based on a false premise conjured by a simplistic 'us versus them' worldview using images that really have nothing to do with the actual 'question' ...

I get the point, alright ... Oh yeah ....

[Jara sang]

71. If that works for you.

I'm just trying to get people to think. I did ask that at the end of the post. I didn't realize I would strike such a nerve. I thought it was light hearted, I guess when I start pointing out cultural distinctions between the Americans and Moslems it turned into a socio/political discussion, but I really didn't expect to get attacked and be labeled a puritanical moralist. I probably should have posted this in GD. For that, I apologize to the denizens of the Lounge.

[Placebo]

73. This is OUTRAGEOUS! This MUST be STOPPED!

And if elected I promise to promote a Culture of the Fully Clothed!

We must put an end to this new generation of bright-eyed pink pleated vixens devoid of any type of moral compass. I simply will not stand for having our female youth soaping up their young hairless nubile bodies and slip sliding all over the hood of my Lincoln Navigator! Did I mention my car is black? That's right, that means it's Interracial Car Washing! Just sick. Dear god, think of the hymen! It's simply outrageous. Where are the parents? This is absurd, and absolutely inexcusable.

...

Leave the shirtless boys though.

:patriot:

[sasquatch]

75. As long as we keep matcom and rev_acts 2004 away they should be fine

:D

[solinvictus]

77. Call me Uncle Pervy but..

I love 'em.

[MrSandman]

78. Both...

At least "Back in the day."