'Frisk Me'

The girl sitting across from me on the bus today had a large necklace she had made and ironed herself out of beads with the text 'Frisk Me' in red letters in a red outlined white rectangle. I will do my best to recreate what it looks like here with marker. She was about 5'7", black, athletic build, delicate features and lightly make-upped face. She couldn't be in higher than 10th grade. She got onto the bus tightly packed amongst her four girlfriends who made their way to the back of the bus slapping each other lightly, giggling and screaming false alarms. Once they sat down they bantered about classes and social stuff at school. I had my headphones on but turned down the volume just enough to keep a vague idea of what they were going on about. About two seats down from Frisk Me sat a reflective and stealthy corn-rowed ebony young man who slowly stood up from his seat revealing his boxer shorts bubbling up out of his jeans while the girls all looked at each other and Frisk Me said, "Where do you think you're going?" To which he said nothing and continued on his way pretending not to hear.

So that is the story of my bus ride...but the phrase "Frisk Me" is lingering on my mind. Why would....anyone....want to be frisked? She so deliberately chose this phrase, as her necklace was handmade and carefully planned out. Does she mean it in a sexual way? It's almost a statement of making her body public property. Why would someone want to be objectified like that? Have her parents or guardians seen her necklace and how do they feel about it?

Just youtube'd "frisk me" and found this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-eFnyGbJME

I'm a little afraid of what it might be like growing up in this sex-crazed media world.