You must have heard of Premier Cricket League, Premier Hockey League or Premier Football League, but did you ever hear something called 'Fantasy Slut League'?
If not, here is the bizarre news! It is a new game started at a high school in California where boys can earn points by having sexual encounters with girl students. For the past five or six years, boys on some sports teams at Piedmont High School had been allegedly playing this game until last month, when school management reportedly discovered their “game” following a date-rape-awareness assembly.
And last week, the school management spilled the beans to the parents and the media. Yet, they haven’t taken any action against this disgusting practice. They reportedly found “after an investigation, they concluded both male and female participants felt pressured by their peers and older students, but found no indication of sexual abuse.”
And no student was accused of criminal conduct nor any action was taken against them. Ridiculous! They even justified their stance as they “didn’t have details on individuals involved and the league’s activities occurred off-campus.”
Though this ugly incident made headlines, nobody seems to ponder over how rampant this practice is in the country.
In an article appeared in New York Times two years ago, popular columnist Maureen Dowd wrote about a similar “fantasy league” in Landon, an all-boys private school in Maryland. It was quoted that the boys “evidently got points for (the sexual equivalent of) first, second, and third base,” and “money was going to be exchanged at the end of the season.”
But Landon defended it saying that it was an “extensive ethics and character-education program.
This fantasy-football format game has a callous nature of a scoring system where the game is sex, not football, and the “fantasy” league is—at least reportedly at Piedmont High School—shockingly real.
Experts see this as a in a wider perspective. Abigail Jones, co-author of Restless Virgins, which examined a widely publicized sex scandal at a New England prep school in 2005, says the problem lies in the broader context of teenage sexuality today.
The Daily Beast quoted him as saying: “Girls and boys have always been sexually active, but the culture in which teenagers are coming of age today is dramatically different in that everything is put on display.”
The fact is kids these days are growing up in a sex-saturated culture. They see only sex everywhere, on billboards, Internet, magazines, movies, and TV.
It may be remembered that some Piedmont girls told local reporters that they didn’t mind “being on the list” of draftees!
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