surfing the random button

[fictional]

so i was reading random LJ's, a dangerous pastime i know, but anything to procrastinate, right?
at any rate... i was reading this one journal, and it was basically this guy talking, fairly literately about his several committed relationships with men, and as well his relationship with this one girl who is his "little girl" and who he owns.
i was entertained enough to keep reading, and then suddenly there's this entry where he describes in detail how he just had his first day as a junior in high school. and i must confess, i was slightly taken aback. i must be getting old, but that just seemed awfully young to me. i couldn't even keep one relationship going in high school...let alone, 3 or 4. and it seems to me we played enough mind games without actually having to go near predefined ones.
sykii, prosicated, help me out! was this stuff going on around us too, and did i just somehow miss it?
(this of course ignores the fact that horny teenagers have great fantasy lives which they often like to think are real.)

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It Wasn't Going On In My Day!

[genders.livejournal.com]

Pardon me, I'm exerting my crone privileges. I shall refrain from spitting snuff on the floor out of courtesy.

I think it is sad yet wonderful that this is happening. I would like to see children remain children longer, and not develop the emotional maturity required to carry on this way so early. Yet, if they start out bi and poly and so on, it will be as the air they breathe when they grow up, and not so subject to society's growing pains in these areas.

They got this way via media exposure, particularly entertainment industry tie-ins.

[sykii.livejournal.com]

I can't speak for whether it was going on in our day.
I can, however, name with near-certainty at least 5 guys we knew who could (and would) easily have invented and posted something similar had the web, particularly journals, been the medium it is today. And I just bet you don't even need me to tell you who they are.

[prosicated.livejournal.com]

i will agree with sykii and say i knew my fair share of people who could and would (and might) have dreamed that sort of life up. But i also knew a few people i'm sure could have created that kind of life for themselves.
Of course, the latter category is entirely female, and that heinous "polygamy circle" we tried to work out in 10th grade (i don't remember if you were part of that, though i think not) decidely doesn't count.
But it might also be that our ideas of committed and owning have changed. i would have once classified relationships as committed or serious that now seem like jokes, and those mind games you mentioned have an amazing ability to make us feel powerful or powerless, with lasting consequences.
i am, however, now horribly curious about this journal.
and i am also thinking of people i know now and their responses to the fact that 10%+ was a hopping club in high school and that we were self-aware enough to consider ourselves in that millieu. i think of that of our queer tendencies as ill-formed and poorly recieved, but perhaps genders is right that younger and younger, children gain the emotional and conceptual maturity to really live these things that you and i and sykii have been working on more recently.