I Wear Short Trousers

@RobbieEssex By all means wear shorts, and I do to; but how does you wanting to see pubescent boys in shorts make the world a better place?

@RobbieEssex Although everybody today is wearing shorts whatever his age, I defy you as a parent to dress a 10- 12 years old in short trousers without his agreement unless heis a cub or a scout.

@ArishMell I was educated that way and never thought that dressed in short trousers up to 18 years I could make the world a better placel . I didn't know at that time that it was so sexy to wear such skimpily short pants and strut about my nakes legs and thighs.

@yvan6615 Fashion of the time?

Certainly not now but many men, including me who hated wearing having to wear short trousers for school until I was 13 and about to enter the Third Form, do like to wear shorts in later life.

@ArishMell Quite the same for me. After 16 , I was continuously complaining to my parents for the wrong reasons that I was too old for wearing short trousers , it did'nt take me long to don my jeans or corduroy short shorts to commute to commute to college when the weather allowed it, I came, like youm to enjoy being dressed in short trousers at college and in the later life.

@yvan6615 Hmm. I, and most of the many people I have known, would regard a lot of that as sheer cruelty. The idea of a 13yo boy still being bathed by his mother, being beaten even in late teens by either parent and allowed no social life even with good people, raises very serious questions about their motives.

Did they even love you, or secretly regard you as a liability whose arrival in the world had cramped their lives socially and financially while loading them with a heavy responsibility? I have a horrible feeling that this lies behind so many accounts of horrific childhoods in the days when "family planning" was far more difficult than it is now.

Yet our lacking the more extreme parental behaviour you describe has not stopped any of us turning into decent people who respect others and respect ourselves.

I think what your parents thought of as "respect" was not true respect, which should be mutual, but fear. If mine had behaved like yours I would have been only too glad to get out and abandon them to their self-inflicted misery.

That once you were an adult, starting with your university course, you still liked to wear shorts, is another matter, and entirely by your choice. You did not have to wear them. I like shorts too, but this is a recent development, I think in my fifties. I also like consensual corporal punishment games, but only as games between consenting adults, not in any sort of reality.

@ArishMell [quote]n the days when "family planning" was far more difficult than it is now. [/quote]

If this refers to the person who posted the title story then I think you are being unnecessarily charitable to those who at that time would complain about being unwilling parents. Condoms have been easily available for considerably longer than he has been alive and the pill was available on the NHS from 1961.

@ninalanyon A good point, but I am not sure in which country his family lived at the time so contraception might have been much harder to obtain.

@ArishMell I was raised in Saskatchewan Canada in a french-speaking and catholic family and I suppose that my parents never used the anticonceptional pill which dididn't exist at that time, I learned that the only method authorized by the Church to birth contol was the Ogino-Knauss method known as the thermometer method.