Halloween brings out the tramp in us all

As October has come upon us, so has the mass amounts of Halloween paraphernalia.  Candy galore stocks the aisles, and mocks us next to costumes that barely cover our backsides.  Oh yes, indulge in that bag of candy pumpkins and have a few caramel apples...but, be prepared to go as Mrs. Potato Head this Halloween. 
  It always amuses me to see people shop for costumes.  Every year, little girls flock to the princess costumes, while boys want to be anything that allows them to carry multiple weapons (in order to impale all princesses with).  The funniest thing is to see the costumes directed at tweens and adult women.  As I perused the Spirit Halloween website, I saw they have made everything sexy.

• Sexy Ghostbusters
• Sexy Bumblebee
• Sexy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
• Sexy Nun

It used to be that if you wanted to be "sexy" at Halloween, you went as a French maid.  Perhaps a flapper.  Now, they have turned EVERY costume into something sexy.  I do not remember Leonardo from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles wearing stilettos and fishnets.  I have never looked at a bee in my garden and thought "wow, that bee is looking gooood today!".  The one that made me laugh out loud was this:
http://www.spirithalloween.com/product/la-risky-raccoon-m-l-10-14/
  Risky Raccoon!  OK, so a heavy, lumbering, nocturnal animal who invades garbage cans is now a sex symbol?  What is next?  The promiscuous possom?  Come ON!  This is ridiculous!
   You have the option of going as something that completely covers your insecurities (Angry Birds, Big Bird, Cereal Box, etc), or letting it ALLL hang out for all friends and neighbors to see. 
  And, of course, they sell it because people are buying it!!!!  There is someone out there who sees that risky raccoon and cannot wait to show it off at their Halloween party.  There is something about Halloween that makes carpool driving mothers of three abandon their usual ways and morph into Wonder Woman or Lady Gaga.  The more leg, bust, and butt you show, the better.
  Will I partake in this nonsense?  Will I stoop into buying an outfit that is deemed "sexy"?  You bet, but nocturnal animals are definitely not on my list of possibilities.