The Drifters
Baseball is a sport of statistics. You talk about batting
averages, RBI’s and today there are increasingly rarefied forms of statistical analysis used to describe the sport. So it’s not surprising that baseball,
which is perhaps the most popular of all sports for young American males, was once used as a metaphor for many first experiences with the opposite sex. And it’s
also not surprising that today’s young men stand a better chance of having high
life time batting averages than their predecessors. Today’s average adolescent (either male or female) has
more sexual experience than their parents and it’s only the most myopic parent
who would dare attempt to lecture their male or female offspring on sexual
practices that the child is far better qualified to understand. However, is knowledge necessarily bliss? Today’s youthful sexual athletes "hook up" before
they’ve had the experience of old-fashioned concepts like love and romance while the
lovers of yesteryear heavy petted and made out “Up on the Roof" or “Under the Boardwalk." These pleasures which adopted the lingo of baseball---you got
to first, second or third base or if you were really lucky hit a homer— are all
but forgotten in an age where nudity is meaningless and undressing someone has
little more significance than unwrapping their Bazooka, with a blow job being
about as routine as blowing a bubble. In the late 50’s and 60’s when The Drifters were all the rage, getting to third base, or fingering, an act
that today occurs before couples are even introduced, was a form of intimacy
that was almost impossible to imagine. Home run hitting was only a dream, but
if you ate your Wheaties, girls were going to pay attention, when the ump
called out “batter up!”
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Monday, October 7, 2013
Under the Boardwalk
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