Senior Pictures

I was wandering around our excuse for a mall the other day, looking at the Senior Pictures the local photographers have up to advertise their *expertise.* I began to wonder when Senior Pictures started bordering on soft porn? I remember my senior picture and if I was more energetic, I would scan it and post it here. But I am not. Was it attractive? No not really. Sexy? Hell no. Remotely seductive? Give me a break. Frankly, I remember most of our pictures being really lame. Awkward poses by a fake wall, a whicker chair or the year "9_" (Like I am going to say when I graduated.....) But as I walked throught the mall, all these girls have these eyes... these "come-hither" eyes. They are wearing, well, not much, and the boys, most of them have no shirts on! I don't want to see that, and I surely don't want to see your 'tats on your *bulging* biceps. Ugh. Many of the girls photos look as though they could be in Maxim... A friend showed me a graduation announcement they had got, and the girl is sprawled out on her back, Hair flowing around her side-turned head, with eyes that suggest.... well... I have some senior citizen readers, so I will let you finish the sentence. I just think of Baby Girl and in my mind fast forward about 16 years.... Do I want 20 or 30-something men wandering around a shopping mall thinking, "Man! She's HOT!" Nope. No I don't. Confident? Sure. Pretty? Yep. Cute? That's good too. "Smokin' Hot!!" No way..... Maybe I am naive. Maybe there is no innocence of youth left. Maybe it has all come down to "sex sells" regardless of anything. But, I sure hope not. And to that young man... pull up your pants and put a shirt on!! No if you'll excuse me, I have to go iron Baby Girl's burka...