'Best Booty Ever': Teen Spandex Volleyball Shorts | Why?

GNBV 14U Gold Finals
Hendrickson & Snipes v. Adishian & Le Blanc

Previously, we wrote a post about European teen handballers competing in (cheeky) bikinis and a post about the super short skirts of French ball girls and teen tennis players. 

Now the question is: Why do (most) [teen] beach volleyball players choose to compete in (cheeky) bikinis? 

Unlike in handball, it doesn't appear that wearing a (cheeky) bikinis is mandatory. For example, in the GNBV 14U Gold Finals (Nov 7, 2020), Hendrickson & Snipes choose to compete in (cheeky) bikinis, but Adishian & Le Blanc competed in (non-spandex) shorts.

As for indoor volleyball, (most) [teen] players compete in spandex volleyball shorts. Why?

Mandy MS posted "Why Are Volleyball Shorts so Short and Tight?" (APR 9, 2020) on How They Play. Mandy wrote that, due to the popularity of spandex, volleyball players switched from non-spandex shorts to spandex in the 1970s but not to sexualize nymphet volleyball players:

[Volleyball] didn't become a widespread college and high school level sport until the 70s after the NAIA and NCAA had introduced it as a varsity level sport.

As the synthetic material spandex became more popular in the late 1970s, many teams started switching over to spandex as part of their uniform. Both in the United States and internationally, women were wearing what was commonly referred to as "bun huggers" with greater frequency. 

Despite what many may have you believe. The shorts were not chosen with a desire to sexualize your daughters or to add sex appeal and spectators to the sport. The shorts were chosen for comfort and practicality.

Do you believe that the switch to spandex "bun huggers" was for for comfort and practicality and not to sexualize volleyball players? #rhetoricalquestion

Interestingly, Aeropostale sells the Best Booty Ever Solid Volleyball Shorts in the website's Girls Bottoms section. The teen volleyball shorts are described as: Booty Enhancing | Contoured seaming and feminine ruching on the back. 

St. Francis versus Palo Alto High School

But Mandy didn't explain why (some) [teen] volleyball players congratulate their teammates with a slap on their spandex "bun huggers". Take for example the 2011 St. Francis versus Palo Alto High School volleyball game where numbers 6, 13 and 14 seemed to be particularly fond of congratulating each other via checking, clasping, and clutching cheeks. 

But we do know why (some) [teen] volleyball players display their spandex "bun huggers" on TikTok. #likes #comments #follows

Euro [Teen] Handballers: Tiny Little [Spandex] Shorts" Versus [Cheeky] Bikinis

Claire Lampen posted on New York Magazine's The Cut that "Female Athletes Fined for Not Competing in Bikinis" ( JULY 26, 2021):

[T]he European Handball Federation just fined the Norwegian women’s beach team [150 euros (≈ $177) per player] for wearing tiny little [spandex] shorts rather than bikini bottoms during a championship match in Bulgaria last week.

[T]he International Handball Federation — unfortunately this matter goes all the way to the top — dictates that women wear sports bras and bikini bottoms “with a close fit and cut on an upward angle toward the top of the leg,” and sides shorter than four inches, during beach competition. 

Wait, are "tiny little [spandex] shorts" less revealing than bikinis? #rhetoricalquestion

And Lampen asked: "Do they impose similarly revealing mandates for male beach handballers?" Of course not! Apparently, Lampen didn't realize that the allure of nymphets extends to sports. For instance, we shared in an earlier post the discrepancy between the length of the French ball girl and ball boy uniforms. 

In particular to handballers, we made a GIF from the Under 16 Beach Handball EURO 2016 YouTube video, which, unsurprisingly, displays the nymphet handballers in cheeky bikini bottoms and the boys in (almost) knee length shorts. 

AND JUST LIKE THAT: Prestige Streaming Teen Sex

On "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" (s01e08) of And Just Like That, the Sex and the City reboot, Charlotte discovered that Lily, her 16-year-old adopted daughter, had a Finsta (i.e. a "private" Instagram account) where Lily posted selfies under the username hililyhilow in what Lily described as "workout wear" (e.g. a hot pink spandex crop top and a blue spandex bottom), which reminded me of Mare of Mare of Easttown whom said, "Trust me. Teenage girls are fucking sneaky."

Lily's "Sexy" Workout Wear Finsta Selfie

Unsurprisingly, Charlotte said that Lily's workout wear selfie was "sexy" and that Lily had a "look" in her eye. colin55 agreed with Charlotte and posted that Lily was "hawwwwwwwt"; consequently, Charlotte wanted to know if Lily was a teleiophile and if Colin was 55-years-old.

Charlotte, "What is this?"

Lily, "It's workout wear."

Charlotte, "Sexy workout wear. And what is this look in your eye? And who is colin55? And is 55 his age?"

In another bit of foreshadowing, on "No Strings Attached" (s01e09), Lily decided that she wanted to learn how to use a tampon. After Charlotte reminded Rose, "[...] there's really only one hole that it can go into." Charlotte demanded that Lily, "Just stick it in! Jam it up there Lily! Just do it!" Ultimately, after a number of unsuccessful attempts, Lily exclaimed, "It's in!"

Mare of Mare of Easttown

Based on Lily's private and public behavior, Mare would not be surprised to learn that on "Bomb Cyclone" (s02e06), 17-year-old Lily proclaimed “I’m ready to lose my virginity."

Lily, “Hey, mom. Did you call that person at Nobu to make the lunch res for me and Blake at 1?”

Charlotte, “Oh no, with all the Polo excitement I forgot. I’ll do it in a minute.”

Lily, “It’s almost 11. We’ll never get in now.”

Anthony, “Booho. You’re 17-years-old. Go to Shake Shack and call it a day.”

Lily, “I can’t lose my virginity after a lunch at Shake Shack.”

Charlotte, “Excuse me.”

Lily, “I’m ready to lose my virginity. And now it won’t be the perfect day that I had planned. “

However, Mare may be surprised to learn that Charlotte made a complete 180 on her view of Lily's sexuality. Not only did Charlotte suggest that Lily use a condom, which sly Lily had been familiar with since the 5th grade, but Charlotte suggested that Lily focus on her (teen) sexual pleasure.

Charlotte, “Condoms obviously.”

Lily, “I’ve been hearing about condoms since the 5th grade. We’re on it.”

Charlotte, “And Lily I just really want you to focus on your pleasure just as much as his pleasure. It is important that you take care of you own needs.”

With Blake's parents in Connecticut, but sans préservatifs, Lily and Blake decided to use the "pull out" method.

Lily, "Blake doesn't have any condoms." "Would you go [and purchase some condoms] for us?"

Charlotte, "I am not about to got out in the middle of a blizzard to get you guys condoms."

Lily, "Okay, okay, Never mind. Blake Googled "how to pull out". We can just try that."

Consequently, with the thought of preventing a teen pregnancy but with the thought of insuring Lily's pleasure, Charlotte hiked through the blizzard to deliver Lily and Blake an assorted pack of condoms, which included: classic, thin, ribbed, and warming condoms. However, Charlotte suggested that Lily avoid the warming one.

Lily, "Mom. Thank you so much."

Charlotte, "Yes. Okay, I got you the assorted pack. There is classic, thin, ribbed. I would avoid using the warming one 'cause you get a rash easily down there. Remember?"

Lily, "Thank you!"

In “February 14th” (s02e07), Kara brought “way too many” edible brownies to Lily’s get together; thus, it’s safe to infer that Lily consumed edibles; however, it’s not clear if Lily started ingesting edibles before or after she starting having teen sex. And it’s not clear if Charlotte condoned Lily’s edibles intake, but Harry, Charlotte’s husband, said in reference to Lily and the edible brownies, “I’m gonna kill our oldest [...]”

Lily: The Morning After (Max)

Unsurprisingly, 17-year-old Lily didn’t only have sex with Blake, because we learned in “There Goes the Neighborhood” (s02e09), that, seemingly only days after losing her virginity to Blake, Lily spent the night with *19-year-old Brady. 

Mare would not be surprised to learn that Lily texted Charlotte that: “[...] she was sleeping on the couch,” but Miranda, Brady’s mother, caught Lily coming out of Brady’s bedroom the next morning. And, “She wasn’t wearing pants.”

Miranda, “I’m fairly certain they hooked up.” “[T]here was no sign of couch-sleeping, and Lily was coming out of Brady’s bedroom.” “She wasn’t wearing pants.”

Charlotte, “Exactly what look did she have on her face?”

Miranda, “The look of a teenager who’s just been caught having sex.”

Initially, Charlotte was dismayed by the news that Lily and Brady had sex, but not because of the teen sex, but because Charlotte said that Lily and Brady were “like cousins”.

In the end, Charlotte had to admit that Lily and Brady, “[...] would have the most beautiful red-headed Chinese-Jewish babies!” Yet, it wasn’t clear if Lily was still having sex with Blake.

[*We know from Anthony, “Booho. You’re 17-years-old. Go to Shake Shack and call it a day,”(s02e06), that Lily is 17, and we know from Lily (s02e09), that Brady is 19, because, Lily told Charlotte, “We [Brady and I] haven’t hung out since [...] I was, like, 12, and he was 14.” However, as Redditors pointed out, this is a continuity error, because Brady was “born” in 2002, which would make him over 20.]

Naturally, Brady wasn’t a virgin when he had sex with Lily. Minutes into “Hello It’s Me” (s01e01), Miranda (over) shared with Charlotte and Carrie:

“I stepped on a used condom in Brady’s room this morning.”

“I was barefoot at the time.”

“Did you hear what I said? I stepped on my son’s semen before coffee.”

Just like a parent right out of Restless Virgins, Charlotte confessed that she condoned Luisa, Brady’s girlfriend, spending the night. Consequently, the next episode, “Little Black Dress” (s01e02), opened with a wild teen sex scene.

Luisa, “Brady!”

Brady, “Yeah, ride me, cowboy!”

Satisfied with the cowgirl position, the teens switched to the missionary position, which caused Brady’s headboard to repeatedly bang against his parent’s wall; ergo, Miranda turned up the volume on the smart TV.

Brady, Blake, Lily and Luisa weren’t the only teens having sex on And Just Like That. On “February 14th” (s02e07), Lisa spotted her son, Herbert Jr., making out with Baxter, his girlfriend, in the prep school’s school yard. 

After Herbert Jr. and Baxter started kissing and Baxter put her thumb down Herbert Jr’s pants with her fingers near his penis, Lisa told Charlotte, “Oh, hell no. It’s a schoolyard, and it’s 3:30!” After Lisa confronted the teens and informed them that there were “scouts from Harvard” on campus, Baxter sheepishly took her thumb out of Herbert Jr’s pants.

Later in the stream, Herbert Jr. had good news for his parents. Just like a parent out of Restless Virgins, Baxter’s parents booked a suite at the Mandarin Oriental on Valentine’s Day for the libidinous teens.

“Mom and dad. Good news […] Baxter’s mom and dad got us a suite at the Mandarin Oriental for Valentine’s Day.”

But unlike the nymphet’s parents, Herbert Sr. and Lisa did not condone the sex suite; however, Herbert offered, “Why don’t you hang here? You’ll have the place to yourselves […]”

Herbert Jr. replied, “Fine,” and left the room, but Lisa informed her husband, “[…] you forgot to tell him that it’s okay to fuck in our bed. ‘Cause that’s happening. This girl has no boundaries.”

But Herbert Sr. reassured his wife that the teens would not “fuck in our bed”, because they’re going have teen sex in Jr’s bed. Herbert Sr. comforted, “They are not gonna have sex in our bed. His? Definitely. But not ours.”

Lastly, And Just Like That has been renewed for a third season, and per Max's head of original programming, the series is: "[...] the #1 Max Original overall, and is the most watched returning Max Original to date [...]"

AND JUST LIKE THAT (2021): Sexy Teen [Asian] Selfies

Here's IMDb's description of And Just Like That  - the Sex and the City reboot: 

The series will follow Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte as they navigate the journey from the complicated reality of life and friendship in their 30s to the even more complicated reality of life and friendship in their 50s.

Lily, Charlotte & Rose

From the description, it doesn't appear that the HBO Max streaming series has anything to do with nympholepsy or nymphets but what IMDb leaves out is that Charlotte has two teen daughters: Rose Goldenblatt and Lily Goldenblatt.

Rose is a confused nymphet who doesn't seem know if she wants to be Jewish or atheist, cisgender or (butch) lesbian, human or alien. And if it turns out in, possible, subsequent seasons that Rose is a (butch) lesbian - that could make for some disturbing age-gap story lines. 

Rose's "Sexy" Workout Wear IG Selfie

On the other hand, we learned in s01e08 that Lily is a sneaky nymphet who has a "private" Instagram account where she posts selfies in what she described as "workout wear" (i.e., crop top and spandex bottom).

Mare of Easttown

Lily reminded me of Mare whom said, "Trust me. Teenage girls are fucking sneaky."

However, Charlotte said that Lily's workout wear selfie was "sexy" and that Lily had a [seductive] "look" in her eye. 

colin55 opined that Lily's crop top, spandex bottom, and look in her eye was "hawwwwwwwt"; however, Charlotte wanted to know if Lily was a teleiophile and if Colin is 55-years-old. 

In the next episode, Lily decided that she wanted to learn how to use a tampon. After Charlotte reminded, "[...] there's really only one hole that it can go into." Charlotte demanded that Lily, "Just stick it in! Jam it up there Lily! Just do it!" Ultimately, Lily shared, "It's in." #voila

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

It appears that And Just Like That is going to use the Tina Fey approach to portraying nymphets, which is peppering nympholepsy throughout the series, which is unlike Mindy Kaling who focuses her series' around nubile nymphets. 

Never Have I Ever

Unbreakable MEAN GIRLS: A Study of Tina Fey’s Portrayal of (Self) Sexualized Teens (Part 2)

We concluded part 1 with: [I]ntrigued by Fey’s work, I decided to view the [Mean Girls] Broadway musical and read Fey's libretto, which were based on the 2004 film. I streamed Mean Girls (2004). And I watched Mean Girls (2024) - a film that was, of course, co-written by Fey and based on Fey’s Broadway musical. Below, before discussing Fey’s Mr. Mayor (2021), I profiled Karen and Regina. And I covered a number of motifs of the theme of self-sexualized teens such as teens in age-gap relationships, teen Girls Gone Wild, and what I refer to as teen lipstick lesbianism (i.e., seemingly heterosexual teens participating in girl-on-girl sexual situations).

Karen

Here’s the synopsis for Mean Girls (2004) from Rotten Tomatoes:

Teenage Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) was educated in Africa by her scientist parents. When her family moves to the suburbs of Illinois, Cady finally gets to experience public school and gets a quick primer on the cruel, tacit laws of popularity that divide her fellow students into tightly knit cliques. She unwittingly finds herself in the good graces of an elite group of cool students dubbed "the Plastics," but Cady soon realizes how her shallow group of new friends earned this nickname.

We previously related that, due to a tingle in her breasts, 16-year-old Karen (Amanda Seyfried) could forecast when it was going to rain. But before Karen shared that titillating information with Cady, Karen admitted, "I can put my whole fist in my mouth!” And she asked, “Wanna see?" 

Mean Girls (2004) | Karen

Later in the film, as a girls’ locker room prank, a student cut the parts of Karen’s top that covered Karen’s nipples. Surprisingly, Karen kept the top on, boldly bounced out of the locker room, and commenced a raunchy fashion trend at school. 

In the Libretto Vocal Book Mean Girls: High School Version (Revised July 2022) and on the Broadway stage, during the “Meet the Plastics” song, Karen sang that her tiny skirt barely covered her “perky” heinie. (In general, on Broadway, the Plastics wore really short skirts and\or very tight pants.)

KAREN

MY NAME IS KAREN. MY HAIR IS SHINY. 

MY TEETH ARE PERFECT. MY SKIRT IS TINY. 

IT BARELY COVERS MY PERKY HEINY.

During the Broadway musical, theatergoers learned why Karen drew the attention of potential theatergoers to her bouncing teen breasts in the trailer. It turned out that Karen's behavior was prompted by Jason whom said that he could "guess any girl's bra size" by having her "jump one time". Consequently, Karen exclaimed, "Do me!", she opened her jacket, and jumped more than one time. 

Mean Girls on Broadway | Karen

JASON W.

Hey, New Girl, you wanna see a trick? I can guess any girl's bra size. All you gotta do is jump one time-

GRETCHEN

Ew, Jason- 

KAREN

Do me!

As we mention in the introduction, theatergoers learned via Gretchen that Karen was very sexually active, because despite only being 16-years-old, Gretchen related to Cady that Karen “had sex with eleven people”.

GRETCHEN 

Are you a virgin?

CADY

What?

GRETCHEN

You don’t have to tell me. But just know that I’m very trustworthy. Karen’s had sex with eleven people and I’ve never told anyone.

Mean Girls on Broadway | Karen

During “Sexy”, Karen sang that being the “hot one” is a “full time gig”, because it takes a lot of time and energy to satisfy peoples’ desires; however, Karen confessed that it was her prerogative to be sexy. While performing “Sexy”, Karen danced licentiously on the Broadway stage in a pair of bra and panties with the panties barely covered by a sheer camisole. And at one point during “Sexy”, Karen turned around, lifted her camisole, and  revealed her panties to the audience. 

(KAREN)

WHEN YOU ARE THE HOT ONE,

IT'S' A FULL TIME GIG,

LOOKING LIKE WHAT PEOPLE WANNA SEE.

KAREN

I CAN BE WHO I WANNA BE, AND SEXY

KAREN

THIS IS MODERN FEMINISM TALKIN’:

I EXPECT TO RUN THE WORLD

IN SHOES I CANNOT WALK IN. 

I CAN BE WHO I WANT TO BE… 

AND SEX,

SEX, 

SEXY!

Interestingly, and in yet another display of Fey’s lack of naiveté as it relates to sexualized teens, Karen intentionally exposed her bra, because she was “going for a look”. However, Karen did not specify if the look was: "girl who’s slept with eleven people".

REGINA

Karen, I can see your bra.

KAREN 

It's on purpose. I'm going for a look.

REGINA

Is it "girl who’s slept with eleven people"? ‘Cause you're nailing it. 

Note that in the high school version of the libretto, Fey, ironically, offered an alternative “suggestion” for certain lines in the musical to the high school students playing high school students. For example, instead of Regina asking, “Is it "girl who’s slept with eleven people"? ‘Cause you're nailing it.” Fey suggested that a high school student could say, “If it’s ‘girl who hooked up with eleven people’ you’re nailing it,” thereby reminding theater kids that teen oral sex is less provocative than teen sex. 

In the song “Stop!”, Karen sang that when she was 13, she sent “nude pics” to a boy she had “a huge crush on”, but Karen forgot to crop the pics, which were posted on Amateurtweens. 

KAREN

STOP.

WHEN YOU HAVE A HUGE CRUSH ON A BOY

AND HE ASKS YOU TO "SEND NUDE PICS" 

AND YOU'RE LIKE, "WOW HE LIKES ME!"

AND SO YOU SEND THEM BUT DON'T CROP YOUR HEAD OFF 

'CAUSE YOU'RE ONLY 13 AND DON'T KNOW ANY BETTER

AND I GUESS HIS FRIENDS SHARED 'EM

‘CAUSE NOW YOU'RE ALL OVER A PORN SITE 

CALLED AMATEURTWEENS.

Consequently, Karen informed theatergoers, "Now I only get naked with people in person! Also someone should teach boys not to do that in the first place." (At the Broadway performance that I saw, a number of people in the audience started clapping and hooting after those lines.)

Rhetorical question: Did Fey base Karen on Danielle Miller and Gabrielle Bluestone’s New York magazine piece: "What Danielle Miller learned at Horace Mann and Rikers"? (FEB. 9, 2022) In the piece, Bluestone related:

In 2004, when Miller was in eighth grade, a boy she had a crush on dared her in an AIM message to prove she wasn’t a “prude.” She grabbed the new Sony VAIO laptop her father had given her for Christmas and propped it on the ledge of her shower stall. She disrobed, picked up the handle of a Swiffer mop, and pressed record. She made three sexual videos in all and emailed them to the boy.

The boy forwarded the clips to Miller’s best friend, who in turn sent them to two people, and soon it had reached everyone that they knew. It spread rapidly from there. 

The videos hadn’t circulated just among New York’s private-school students and their friends [...] The videos also ended up on the file-sharing programs LimeWire and Kazaa. 

Unfortunately, we may never know if Fey based Karen on Swiffer Girl.

Mean Girls (2024)

Here's the synopsis posted on Rotten Tomatoes for Mean Girls (2024):

From the comedic mind of Tina Fey comes a new twist on the modern classic, MEAN GIRLS. New student Cady Heron (Angourie Rice) is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called "The Plastics," ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George (Reneé Rapp) and her minions Gretchen (Bebe Wood) and Karen (Avantika). However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina's ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels (Christopher Briney), she finds herself prey in Regina's crosshairs. As Cady sets to take down the group's apex predator with the help of her outcast friends Janis (Auli'i Cravalho) and Damian (Jaquel Spivey), she must learn how to stay true to herself while navigating the most cutthroat jungle of all: high school.

Mean Girls (2024) | Karen

Recall that on Broadway, after Karen exclaimed, “Do me!”, she opened her jacket, and bounced up and down in a manner that drew attention to her bouncing breasts. In the 2024 film version of Mean Girls, Karen (Avantika) performed "Sexy" during a Halloween party where she bounced up and down in a manner that drew attention to her bouncing breasts, which were partially covered by a bra; however, unlike Broadway's Karen, who performed "Sexy" in pair of panties, Karen (Avantika) performed "Sexy" in a pair of black spandex shorts.

Mean Girls (2024) | Karen

And to give moviegoers and streamers a clear view of her shorts, Karen (Avantika) bent over and lifted her camisole to reveal a letter B, a ghost, and a pumpkin (i.e., BOO) that were displayed across her derrière. 

Just like in the musical, in the 2024 film, Regina informed “Karen, I can see your bra.” Karen replied, “It’s on purpose. I’m going for a look.” And Regina asked, “Is it ‘girl who slept with 11 people’? ‘Cause you’re nailing it.” But this raises the question: Why did Fey add this salacious motif to the musical and 2024 film, because there was no apparent indication from the 2004 film that Karen was a teen nymphomaniac. On the other hand, Karen (Amanda Seyfried) did inform Cady, "I can put my whole fist in my mouth!” 

Mean Girls (2024) | Gretchen Squats

Lastly, as it relates to Karen, in the 2024 film, while Karen filmed a social media post, Gretchen, in the background, stopped typing on her phone to analyze her derriere that was wrapped tightly in a pair of black spandex shorts. Unhappy with the extent of her buttock's bulge, Gretchen proceeded to perform squats.

Unbreakable MEAN GIRLS: A Study of Tina Fey’s Portrayal of (Self) Sexualized Teens 

(Part 1 & Part 3)