The story "Little Red Riding Hood" has been read and retold for hundreds of years. The story has been told so many times, that now there are many versions of that same story. Some stores have had more exposure than others, some with sexual innuendo, and others just making fun of the whole concept of "Little Red Riding Hood."
The Charles Perrault version of "Little Red Riding Hood" is probably the most known, because parents will tell it to their children because it is the version that would offend the least amount of people and more friendly to children of all of the versions. The story was originally told to higher class girls in their development stages, where the wolf is a metaphor for men. This is clearly put across in the moral at the end of the story: "From this story one learns that children, especially young girls, pretty, well-bred, and genteel, are wrong to listen to just anyone, and its not at all strange if a wolf ends up eating them [
] Some [wolves] are perfectly......
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