Visible Panty Line would be my guess.
VPL=Visible panty lines.
I am old (40) and didn’t know this. My older co-worker knows, because her daughters (4) range in age between 15-23.
ignore ajb867, boyshorts are where it’s at. Especially black with the frilly. oooooh mmmmm…
“Well into”?? The mind boggles.
The only reason I wear thongs is to make sure I have no VPL. If that’s her reasoning, and you can see that it’s an issue, then there’s no problem with it.
I had a girlfriend at 9. My best friend did too. We weren’t particularly exceptional and that was 20 years ago. http://www.teenhut.net/dating-relationships/13597-what-age-did-you-get-your-first-real-boyfriend-girlfriend-2.html
Having sex and having a romantic partner are separate things. But even still the average age for ending your virginity is around 15 if I remember correctly.
Careful. Their heads might explode.
I don’t think letting her buy herself a thong is any big deal. But I think they’re tacky as hell hanging out the back of someone’s pants. Boyshorts would definitely be the better option.
Get her a couple of pairs of thongs, and maybe a few other styles of underwear in her size-- at this age, it’s pretty harmless and she’s old enough to make decisions about what kind of underwear she likes. I had started wearing thongs around this age, and it stemmed from curiosity. Wasn’t really a sexual thing, and it didn’t make me any more sexually precocious than I may have been without them. She’s at an age that’s prime for exploring her own self image and sexuality, and a lot of the time, kids who are allowed these small acts of expression will forgo the larger, more problematic behaviors you may be worried about.
FWIW, for all ladies who wear thongs to prevent visible panty lines: if your pants are tight enough that panty lines are an issue, then be aware that what is visible from behind when you wear a thong is probably worse. Whether or not the whale tale is showing. You’re better off wearing no-seam, skin-tone panties.
No, the sexualization of the mass culture and populace must be prevented even if it’s one small personal battle like this.
Oh, honey, I think you took a wrong turn somewhere around 1972. It’s way too late.
Heck, it’s been all downhill since 1910.
Think that ship sailed during the Summer of Love if not before.
If my hypothetical daughter wanted to wear thong panties, I tell her Hell No. Fortunately for her, I generally delegate all clothing questions to her hypothetical mother. In the event they disagree, I will break the tie, but Daughter will know that her mother is way more permissive than I am. If such an issue is appealed to me, I am quite likely to require several layers of clothing that covers her from the tops of her shoes to the bottom of her chinny-chin-chin, + no less than 2 adult chaperones for any and all social activities. Daughter will be far happier trusting her mother’s discretion.
Unfortunately quite true. Spengler foresaw in 1918 that Western civilization would gradually degenerate into more primitive attitudes on sex in the next few centuries. Observe how the moral decency of the Roman Republic degenerated into the notorious hedonism of the later Principate.
Thong’s advocate here. I wear thongs EVERY DAY because I find them more comfortable, and I challenge anyone to provide a cite that they promote UTIs or yeast infections or whatever. (I was plagued with both in my early 20s *before *I discovered thongs, BTW, but have rarely had them since.) They don’t slide around if they fit and you don’t tug on 'em. Nor do they have to show as a whale’s tail if you get a low-rider style in a size that fits.
They don’t have to be particularly sexy, either. Mine are plain cotton.
I’d recommend a) asking why your daughter wants them; then, if the answer satisfies you, b) getting her – or giving her permission to get – a single one (or two, in different sizes) to try. She might hate them, and it’s not like you can try them on in the store first.
No. Absolutely no.
Nitpick: One’s vagina is not involved, AFAIK, in **urinary **tract infections. I think you’re thinking of **vaginal **yeast infections (candidiasis), which, while no barrel of monkeys, are usually solved with a $10-15 trip to the drugstore.
Which is beside the point that I don’t believe thongs promote either UTIs or candidiasis.
By primitive, do you mean “less stick up your ass”?
Because for all the searching i do, i can’t find a stick up mine, but it seems to me that there’s a big giant one wedged up yours.
As the father to four daughters, my first instinct is “Good God, no!”
As a disinterested observer, my first instinct is “Meh.”
I guess I should have specified urethra for you. The gynecologist I worked for independently studied the connection between thongs and chronic UTIs and, while there is a dearth of published evidence out there linking the two, gynecologists all over have noticed an increase of UTIs in their patients that wear thongs. But hey, I’m all for wearing whatever you want. I don’t see how having a piece of cloth jammed up between your buttcheeks could be comfortable, but to each their own.