Ok, I am liberal.
I like to think I am liberal. Nudity doesn’t bother me, I am pro-choice, I could give a poop if someone is smoking marijuana…blah, blah. BUT when it comes to my child, I am super conservative. I am concerned about her choices, her clothing, her safety, her health and why shouldn’t I be, she is the only thing I have to actually get RIGHT in life.
A long time ago I wrote an article..well, more like an observation, on little girls wearing thongs. I had caught a glimpse of a young girl, in a Tinkerbell shirt no less, with a hot pink thong hanging out at the local park.
I took a picture of it on the playground.
Trust me, I have gotten a LOT of grief over that picture, but I think I made my point. And at least I don’t kidnap little girls in thongs, kwim?
That article gets a buttload of hits on my blog even till this day.
People who look up:
- “kids in thongs”
- “little girls in thongs”
- “pictures of 10 year olds in thongs”
- “girls in thongs under 4″
- “Want to see little girl in a thong”
No crap.
Just today alone I have had:
- Hot young girls wearing thongs
- little GIRLS THONG
- little girls in thongs
I also get many comments on that post.
Unfortunately I can’t put most of them through because they would make the general population physically ill. Stuff like “I think all little girls should wear thongs; they are HOT in them.” The sad part is the comments are probably real. My own dad thinks I should start an IP database to add anyone with those kinds of comments so the FBI can investigate them all.
I think he may be onto something.
Which brings me to why I don’t want my little girl WEARING a thong. There really are men out there that look at your little girls…in thongs. And then they go home and search them out on the internet for their jollies.
Today I got this comment and at first I was thinking..is this guy for real? I mean, for real, for real? I had to not only publish it, I had to point it out.
After reading all the comments on this site, i decided to give my own opinion, for what it’s worth. I am a single father to two girls (Ages: 7 & 9) and the pictures on this post do not surprise me in any way. Both my girls wear thongs, as do a lot of my nieces who are of a similar age. Strangly they both still act like children not Porn Stars, niether do they go around parading the fact that they are wearing thongs.
Maybe it’s just the way i was brought up but as long as something is covering their vagina’s i don’t see a problem, a thong is nothing more than underwear, it doesn’t make any person more sexy than when their not wearing them, people who think that a child wearing a thong make’s them ’sexy’ should get their head examined!
I have no problem with my girls wearing them and niether does anyone else i know, maybe because my girls don’t go round lifting up their skirts and showing everyone is why i don’t have a problem with it! My girls don’t wear PJ’s on a night, they wear a thong and cami top even when walking round the house, it doesn’t bother them so why should it bother anyone else, at least their vagina’s are covered and as far as i am concerned that what matters!
Now I have a daughter. She is nearly 5. We still take a bath and change in front of each other. However, she is growing up quickly and I figure it wont be too long before her privacy factor will kick in and she will close her door when changing. Its starting to happen now in some occasions already. Plus I am a woman (and her mother) so I figure its fair game to be more open in naked situations till she is no longer comfortable with it.
Even so, I cant even imagine at 9 years old that its appropriate for your daughter to be walking around in a THONG around the house with just a cami on. That draws the line for me.
And as a father, especially a single father who has to work even harder on the growth of a child, I cant imagine how this would ever be acceptable.
Am I the only one leaving this comment with a sense of…..hell, I don’t even know how to put it.
Disturbia?
Vomit?
~Trisha
My daughter is 8 and it freaks me out that she already wants to wear a BRA, let alone a freaking THONG. NO WAY!!! And that guy that commented? His head is the one that needs examining. I would not be surprised at all if 10 years from now, both daughters are in therapy for sexual abuse. It’s NOT right.
I remember following a conversation on this not that long ago. And yet, I still can’t believe that stores sell bikinis for 5 year olds…
I mean, I wasn’t even allowed to walk out the door with just a cami and pants (had to wear a vest, it also happened to be like this at school) when I was growing up.
Although, I think that it’s not a matter of kids growing up but rather a matter of parents not knowing how to say no to their kids wanting to look like those girls in teen magazines.
Who the hell would let their daughter wear one?!
I don’t see what the problem is… it seems like good old puritanism is revisitng our close prude culture.
As the guy you quoted said, it’s underwear, it protects the delicate parts and it’s not anyone elses bussiness what’s going on in your kids pants.
Admittedly I grew up in the country, but I walked around stark naked for a lot of my childhood and I lived with a single mother and single grandmother… I don’t think for a second either of them ever took any kind of joy in my nudity outside their joy at having a son/grandson in their l ives.
Does my mother seeing me naked and running around at 5 years old make you think something sick or innapropriate? Or does this only apply to men who see their daughters in less than neck to ankle garb?
I am constantly amazed at the cycles of prudism that run through this country accompanied by fear and, I have to think, something Freudian. When exactly does the body go from being something beautiful and natural to something we should be ashamed of, hide? Why are naked babies ok, and nude adult beaches ok, but somehow someone in the middle weith thin underwear is horrible?
I see constant reference to sick men who go home and enjoy the though to young girls in thongs. I have bad news for you, they were doing this before thongs ever even invented and they will continue to do so if no thong is ever made again. The problem is not the thong, it is the people who have these mental issues. You are confusing the two and condeming one inappriorprately.
Do you make your children wear skii suits to the beach? Because these same people probably see your children there in bathing suits. In the summer do you say no tank tops and shorts, because young girl legs and bare shoulders might get someone excited?
These people have this thing called an imagination that will let them get some kind of perverted pleasure off whoever they see fit no matter what. We should certainly be educated and work to help these people overcome their problems, but it’s just said that someone elses problem is causing your child to suffer their freedoms and actions being governed in their own houses and lives.
Sure it’s displeasing to think someone might be getting their jollies off seeing your child, but how does that effect you or your child? It doesn’t… these are things happening from afar that have no direct effect on either of you. How many perverts have had look at your daughter in her life? You have no idea do you… becuase there is no effect on you. She hasn’t had her growth stunted by it, grown an antler for every one who looked at her… it doesn’t effect you other than how you make it effect you by choice.
I have to say when I see a young girl in a bathing suite or her underwear, it doesn’t in the slightest cross my mind that there is anything sexual about it… it’s a child enjoying their childhood. I have to wonder, if when you look at a child, you see something sexual being exploited.. why do you see something sexual at all?
Maybe you need to step back and evaluate the whole issue, not just one part of it…
The words “thong” and “child” do not belong in the same sentence. I too grew up with a single dad, and no way in hell would this fly in my house. I didn’t even know what a cami was until college, much less a thong. We are forcing kids to grow up too soon in our society.
OMFG you’ve got to be kidding me! that is totally inappropriate. I can’t even believe it. gross
By the way, I didn’t wear a thong until I had A KID already… and my daughters will not be allowed to wear thongs until my husband gives them permission… which will probably be when they are like 35. LOL
For once in my life, I won’t write a book in a comment. I will just say um, NO. A child has NO business wearing a thong unless the word is plural and intended to refer to a pair of flip flops. Period. That dad has lost his mind. Thongs don’t make a person any sexier than normal underwear? If that is the case, why do we not see porn stars sporting granny panties? Um, duh. And walking around the house in a cami with just their underwear on? HUGE no-no.
My 9 year old has a bad habit of putting on her panties (NOT thongs, might I add – not even BIKINI briefs at this point!) and a tshirt … when she comes parading through the house, my husband quickly tells her she better go cover her body. (He also tells her ‘next time’ she comes walking through the house without her shorts on, she’s getting a spanking, but he’s a big softie and that never happens – he just says ‘next time’ again) LOL
I just posted a blog the other day about nudity around kids… I think PARENTS and same-sex children is not a big deal up to a certain point… like you said, when the child becomes uncomfortable. In my opinion that does NOT extend to step parents, PERIOD. But children, IN MY OPINION, should not be seeing opposite-sex parents nude – my husband does occasionally walk through the house in his boxers, but not the ones that are fitted – only the ones that look like shorts, and only if he’s on his way to FIND some actual shorts to put on.
Some things are just touchy and this is one of them. Lines MUST be drawn and not crossed. A little girl that old parading around in THONGS with her behind hanging out and a camisole top??? INAPPROPRIATE in every sense of the word. A little girl that age WEARING thongs AT ALL is ridiculous. What for? To hide her panty line? And that matters WHY at that age? You are okay with your child being concerned with how her BUTT looks to the outside world? That in itself tells me that you’re not worried about your child being a target for a child predator – that is sick to allow a CHILD to present a provocative image like that, and no matter HOW you spin it, thongs are seductive and suggestive to say the LEAST!
Dang. I wrote a book after all. You can imagine how horribly I fail at Wordless Wednesday.
lol
So after reading this yesterday, last night I asked my husband if he thought it would be appropriate for Paige to wear a thong at the age of 7. His response…”No f^%#ing way.” Then again, I wouldn’t buy her training panties that had “Hot Stuff”, “Cutie-Pie” and “Sweet” written on the ass. I’m sorry, she’s 2.
If anything, this makes me hold on to Paige just a little bit tighter, it’s a good reminder that there are some very sick people out in the world.
um, yeah. It’s completely inappropriate for them to be wearing the thong. Anyone trying to say it’s not a “sexual” thing is talking out of their butt! A thong shows off a butt, pure and simple.
As far as my husband is concerned, he would freak out if our daughter at 9 years old was walking around the house half naked!
Un-freaking-believable! WTF. I literally had to go brush my teeth ’cause I vomited in my mouth.
I can not think that comment-from a father was real. I can not believe that some little girl’s daddy thinks it’s OK that she wear a thong.
I’m going to have to believe that…statement was from a degenerate pretending to be a loving father because he gets his jollies off on little girls in thongs.
I’m also left wondering if he found this post from Googling “little girls wearing thongs”.
Ick. Ick [squared]
I understand your reason for snapping the picture. But I’m really in shock and awe that … NO ONE seen you taking a picture of that little girls thong.
In regards to … “as far as i am concerned that what matters!”
As far as *I* am concerned their ass is still hanging out, and it’s NOT appropriate. I’m not a prude, but I can NOT imagine my husband even allowing my now 11 year old EVER wearing a thong and only a cami. Ever.
I can’t imagine myself tolerating anyone’s daughter wearing only a cami and a thong.
Perhaps the nice man with MSNBC could use their IP numbers for better purposes in conjunction with the FBI?
Okay, so I’m on my iPhone and have so much to say about this but it would take me hours pecking at this little keyboard so I’m just going to keep it short and simple. YUCK YUCK! Someone needs to call CPS on that dude! No telling what those poor innocent girls have to go through with a dad like that!
Wow, just WOW! This disturbs me. Little girls and thongs just should not mix. I can see at maybe 14 or so, but 9??? C’mon, get real!
For all the pervs that search those words and find your site, they need to die and burn in hell. Are they that desperate they can’t get a real woman?? That disgusts me. If anyone ever did anything to any little girl I know, I would chop his balls off and make him choke on them.
I do not think little girls should be parading around in thongs, especially in front of their father. That’s disturbing on many levels.
Why is it that some folks (too many IMHO) thinks that children should grow up fast. Thongs were made for women, not children and there is no reason that little girls need to wear them.
As for the father who let’s his 7 & 9 year old walk around in thongs and camis in front of him … hmmmm. The cami doesn’t bother me, but the thong definitely is pushing it. This would mean that the girls are exposing their bare bottoms to their father and by 7 yrs old girls should have begun to establish a sense of privacy and this needs to be respected and encouraged by the dad.
Ewwww. I have no interest in my 18 month old growing up. My husband and I become visibly pale when watching teenagers on tv. Teenagers are terrifying.
This is just disturbing. Even my husband (who never gets weirded out by anything unless it’s of this kind of nature) was grossed out. I was just telling him, that growing up I was always ‘covered up’ walking around the house at night around my dad and younger brother. Part of the reason because I never knew who’d just show up lol and the other part because they don’t need to see all that they are family and it would be weird. I think the database thing sounds like a pretty good idea to me but then I’m just paranoid like that and don’t even have a daughter.
I have 4 daughters 8,7,6,and 2 I dont see thongs in our vocab for years to come but when I noticed my sister wearing then at 15 I had a problem with that I guess I look at a thong as something sexy for a woman not a child but I see that not all people agree with that
i remember you talking about this at Type A & I was totally appalled at the thought of it. Makes me want to lock my daughter away. So scary & utterly disturbing. NOT OK, dude.