Not only was singer Kate Perry’s single, I Kissed a Girl, the hottest and most controversial song this past summer, but the song also spawned a slew of “Girls kissing girls parties” across the United States, a trend some expect to catch on globally.

The single I Kissed A Girl climbed to the top of the charts not only in the US but in Canada and Britain the song finds Perry singing about experimenting with kissing a girl and liking it in the following lyrics: This was never the way I planned/ Not my intention/ I got so brave, drink in hand/ Lost my discretion/ It’s not what, I’m used to/ Just wanna try you on/ I’m curious for you caught my attention/ I kissed a girl and I liked it/ The taste of her cherry chap stick/ I kissed a girl just to try it/ I hope my boyfriend don’t mind it . . .

The popular song became the rave of teens and the brunt of attacks from the Christian community. Ironically the 23-year-old Kate Perry, who was born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson is the middle child of two pastors and grew up listening to Gospel music and singing in church. In fact in 2001 she released a Christian pop album. But it would seem these days there is no love to be found for Perry from the church. The song has even inspired a sign outside a Christian church in Blacklick, Ohio. “Havens Corners Church” ran a sign which read “I kissed a girl and I liked it, then I went to hell.”

“It’s not something that is really a shock if you’re a scriptural person,” the Reverend Dave Allison, pastor of the 100-member church, told The Columbus Dispatch. “We meant that as a loving warning to teens.” Still the song is said to be inspiring uninhibited girls kissing girl parties and raves and the singer herself has been photographed at several parties French kissing her close female friends.  Disgusting, sexy, and hot are all words used to describe this latest party trend: girls kissing girls on the dance floors, stated a recent blog.

“I experienced it last week. Well, sort of. I’m not a girl. But next to me a guy was dancing with a girl. Another girl, presumably a friend, walked up to her and slowly started gyrating in front of her before heating things up to a full blown French kiss. Within two weeks I witnessed similar situations three times,” one guy said about his experience.

Sex educator, Dr Logan Levkoff, acknowledges that those girls don’t consider themselves bi-sexuals or Lesbians. Most consider themselves as “just having fun” or “heteroflexible.” She went on to explain, “The real problem with girls kissing girls is that women feel like it’s acceptable to make out with one another because there is no overriding stigma for them. Can you imagine if teen boys were doing the same thing? Would they be cheered on and asked out by the hottest people in school?

This situation is representative of tremendous inequality. As parents, we should be teaching our children to challenge all forms of double standards and intolerance. We should be teaching them to think about sexual orientation differently. And of course, whether it is drugs, alcohol, or sex, we should be explaining to our children that doing something at the behest of others (or simply to impress someone) makes for very poor decision making.” The trend has not seemed to spread to St Lucia but with all kinds of “fetes” named after songs these days it seems it might be only a matter of time before this island has its own girl on girl dance floor action! Any complaints?