What now makes you uncomfortable that didn't at the time

[drinkingwineoutofamug]

As a teenager I like listening to a certain rock band.
Just found their album on iTunes, downloaded and listened.
I was shocked. One of the songs - sung by grown men - ' she's a 13 yr tease , with bleach blonde hair. Let me eat your cookies , let me see your cookies '
Sat in the bath gob smacked. When I was 15 , this never made me question.

Has anyone else come across something that as a younger person it never crossed your mind but now it's a wtf moment

@JaniieJones

Communal showers after PE in the 80s with battleaxe teachers standing watching!! allegedly to ensure people showered. I hope there are lots of retired PE teachers ashamed of this gross invasion of privacy.

God this. It was a humiliating experience.

@SpringtimeSummertime

‘Creep’ by Radiohead gives me the creeps nowadays funnily enough...

Why? It's a song that sums up teenage angst really well. My 15 yr old DS loves it - just as I did at his age.

Thongs.

Used to be my go-to undergarment of choice. Now I find them incredibly uncomfortable and I'm pretty sure they give me thrush.

The Stockholm syndrome/coercion of Belle in beauty and the beast.

The Thorn Birds
As a teenager I thought the story of Meggie and Ralph de Bricassart was an epic tale of true love against the odds.
25 years later, and I had to stop reading after a few chapters.
So icky. It's a textbook tale of an older man grooming a little girl throughout her life.

[quote FurrySlipperBoots]@drinkingwineoutofamug Oh no, what's wrong with 'Summer of 69'? I almost don't want to know, I love that song![/quote]
No the one by Brian adams , the other guy.
About a girl he didn't know her name, but it was a night to remember

My ex husband 🤣

I heard Spice Girls 2 Become 1. It is absolute filth with really obvious sex references. I felt so horrible that this was aimed at teens / tweens!

Also Into The Groove and Jailhouse Rock - two songs about 'dancing' that weren't really about dancing....

By contrast, I'm sure Clair was meant to be about a friend's little girl for whom Gilbert babysat. I think he was very close to her and adored her like she was his own young daughter/niece, but there was no intention to suggest anything sexual. AFAIK??

@Miljea

'Every Step You Take'....

Sting had a stalker...it's about that.

@Rowofducks I don't think Stan is supposed to be funny. It is supposed to make you feel uncomfortable .

When I was at school communal showers were obligatory and the P.E teacher would make us line up and tick off our name, we would then have to hold up our towel and go through the shower. The only time you got out of it was if you had a period. She would put a mark against your name to make sure it only happened once a month .

@JaniieJones

Communal showers after PE in the 80s with battleaxe teachers standing watching!! allegedly to ensure people showered. I hope there are lots of retired PE teachers ashamed of this gross invasion of privacy.

Yes this happened in my school in the seventies. Mortifying whether you had hit puberty or not - and we weren’t allowed to take our towels to hang by the showers either.

It was before my time, but the one that absolutely disgusts me to my core is the 'scientific experiments' done by Alfred Kinsey - and the fact that he's still respected and the 'institute' he began - that is publicly funded and 'advises' government on policy - still bears his name.

It's like the equivalent of the UK having a lofty, official 'Institute For Fixing Things' named after a certain DJ - and still proudly seeing no reason to change the name.

I'm quite hard to shock, but hearing about some of the 'experiments' he ran very nearly made me vomit. At least JS is now rightly 'officially' condemned by everybody; quite the opposite for Kinsey.

I had a dodgy GP who made me take my top off when I saw him for a sinus infection. And my bra.

Was awful actually. Never reported him.

[quote Alcemeg]@LindyLou2020 No way would I want 1960s Jamaican music to be cleaned up and sterilised, sorry![/quote]
@Alcemeg...........
Crass and insensitive post.
You have evidently missed the point of this thread.

@catsareme14

Gilbert o Sullivan singing Claire

There is NOTHING sexual about this song he is singing about his god daughter who he adores.

Yes to the awful communal showers after PE and ridiculously short skirts (1970s)
The Black and White Minstrels Benny Hill Dick Emery Dave Allen - awful - also The Two Ronnies has some sketchy material 😳
In the early 80s in an office job was told by a male co-worker that he could see nipples in my top - reported to my male boss & nothing was done 🤨

Babyroobs (sorry, can't quote) that sounds horribly familiar (subject, dates, timescale). If the same teacher, he was still grooming pupils years later. Awful.

I heard Spice Girls 2 Become 1. It is absolute filth with really obvious sex references. I felt so horrible that this was aimed at teens / tweens!

But at least it sort of had a safe sex message:

Be a little bit wiser, baby
Put it on, put it on

We had forced showers in PE too. I was telling my DD about it and she was so horrified!

I used to work in a hotel bar and serve food when I was 19 and men were forever pitching my bum and it was just one of those things. I hope those kind of men don't get away with that these days .

@Nishky

I think a lot of sings from the past were pretty dubious

Happy Birthday sweet sixteen
Centrefold
Does your mother know that you’re out

Although none that I can think off reach the depths of that revolting blurred lines

Young Girl

Yes to the 80s showers at school!

I think someone here mentioned gymnastics leotards? There's an article on the Mail on line tonight about this and how a German gymnast is pushing the unitard as an alternative (mostly up to now it's been an option for religious reasons).

Went to a party at a teachers house when I was 13 where everyone was boozing. One of the year 11 lads had sex with a French exchange student in one of the bedrooms.

I watched a lot of repeats of the Two Ronnies when I was 11-12 years old. My parents saw it as classic comedy and I loved it. But my God it gave me some awful misogynistic views about women and I completely took them on board as I was at exactly the worst age for that sort of thing. I realised I was gay in my 30s and am still unpicking the views this sort of tv gave me about women and why it’s so problematic. I am pretty certain that it made me repress my lesbianism (long story but it makes sense in my head).

My friend’s parents met at school. She was the pupil, he was the teacher. She was 14 when he taught her, they officially got together when she was 16. He is 14 years older so was 28 when they met. Wasn’t particularly weird as a child/teenager but obviously think very different about this now.
Parents are still married but very unhappy (dad is financially and emotionally abusive).