HW 57

I think prom is overrated. You spend weeks planning for a period of 6-12 hours. In the city, and especially SOF, prom isn't some extreme ultimate rite of passage. It's simply a celebration of unity and love. I think prom shouldn't be about the individual, but the community. Another part that doesn't make sense is that you go with a date, possibly someone you've known for years, and dance, party and spend the night together. But for one night only. If you're a boy you've worked up the guts to ask them, and if you're a girl you said yes for one reason or another, but will anything ever come of your one night fling? Prom dates are single-use and single-purpose, they're good for one night, maybe for only the prom and not the after party. Then the idea of the loss of virginity factors in. Do you lose your virginity to the person you've come with? If so, isn't that sort of shallow? Up until now, you haven't had an intimate moment with them, but you share with them the most important experience of love? Is it lust or love? What is the correlation between sex and prom? A huge thing at prom is dressing up, suits, tuxes and dresses. I think these things represent cleanliness and some purity, yet the sexual energy is unmatched. What happens if you have no date? It's a sort of stigma, everyone feels bad for you. Why should they? Why can't they have the same amount of fun as someone with a date? Is after-prom as important as the actual prom? What are the functions of teachers at prom? Why does SOF hold prom on a Thursday? Why do people not want to go to prom (other than monetary restrictions)? Where did the word "prom" come from?