I'm pretty upset that I can't catch any sex on cable television. I can watch someone get decapitated, if I so choose, but I can't catch so much as ten seconds of two girls making out.
Growing up, I always wondered why this was the case. I found, as time went on, that America has a f aux pa for the sexual, but we compensate with our complete disparity when it comes to the region of violence. It's an odd affair to catch Saving Private Ryan uncut on ABC Saturday night, but I need to hack a satellite receiver to catch naked women.
Last I checked, sexuality never destroyed a culture or nation. Yet, we desperately fight against any sexual exposure, citing religious or social reasons. We say we need to protect our children against the immoral, the unjust, and the worldly. If you're trying to save the younger generation though, you've failed.
Take the Teletubbies. The oldest Teletubby, Tinky Winky, is purposefully portraying a homosexual character. The character is purple. There is an upside down triangle protruding from it's head. I know your kids haven't made the connection - yet - but they will.
Ever wonder what happened to Steve from Blues Clues? He was arrested on cocaine and child pornography charges. Paul Reubens, of Pee Wee Herman fame, was arrested for indecent exposure in a peep show theater.
You're losing the culture war with sex, so get over it. Your kids are probably more sexually debased than you could have ever hoped to imagine, so you might as well be kicking a dead horse.
But don't feel bad, at least you're trying. For the past ten years, I've watched as Tipper Gore, Coretta Scott King, and many, many others have lead a "crusade of morality" to save the "family values" in the United States.
Do you think any culture that has a family that raises children to have them move out at 18 to go to college or work ever really had "family values?" Quit kidding yourself. You've not stopped anything, and you've only accomplished three things.
First, when I get my mom to buy me a CD at the age of 12, I am dimly aware of a "Parental Advisory: Explicit Content" label on the front cover. This is a very clear warning about the questionable content of the CD. This is also a warning no one will ever take seriously. Good attempt, though. 70% of the criteria for the warning is based on sexual content. The other 30% is cussing.
Second, on TV, before the beginning of a show, for approximately 2.3 seconds, a ratings box will appear, them promptly dissapeer. I, like many Americans, have no idea what this box means. But I have an idea. Sesame Street receives a "Y7" rating, which probably means safe for young children. Nip/Tuck, which is known for it's gratuitous violence, drug use, and extreme sexual content recieves a "14" rating. The real outrage over the show were it's near pornographic sex scenes. We watch on "The Shield," however, which occupies the very same timeslot on another night, where a man has his feet nailed to the floor, before he blows his brains out in a most spectacular fashion. Not so much a shrug of disdain from the peanut gallery.
Third, ESRB ratings for video games. It should be noted, however, that games often receive an "Adult Only" rating when they have lewd sexual content, but not once in the entire history of the ESRB has a game received anything above a "Mature" rating for violence.
Since the Bush administration came into power, enforcement of federal obscenity laws has more than tripled. While the First Amendment has been ruled to technically protect the pornography industry, "obscene" pornography has been outlawed. This may sound like a stupid question, but what pornography ISN'T obscene?
Although 60% of Americans believe teenagers should have easy access to contraception devices, George W. Bush, among others, have made big pushes towards "Abstinence Only" sex education. This is barring the fact that more than 50% of high schoolers are sexually active to begin with. Some on the extreme right go as far to teach their children that Sexually Transmitted Diseases are God's punishment for sexual immorality. This claim is as stupid it sounds, I assure you.
While right-wing America is constantly fighting a war of morale attrition with the sex movement America, only stopping to sucker punch the left every once in awhile, where's the movement against violence?
There isn't one, of course. Violence is bred into us from birth. We are falsely lead to believe that might is right, and we can do no wrong. We go to war with the slogans of "God Bless America," and "God Bless our troops," and while I do support the troops, the hidden message is clear: Who cares what we do, or how violent and debased we are, God is on our side, we can do no wrong. So let's kill 'em all.
Go to a theater, watch a horror movie. Go see something like "The Hills Have Eyes." There is more blood in that movie, and it's ilk, than that Atlantic has salt water. But few people get truly disgusted, few people turn their eyes away in shock or horror. It just doesn't affect us. We recount brutal scenes from film like badges of honor, as if we had to watch them, and had to witness brutal events as a right of passage into adulthood. Politicians and critics remain silent. After all, these movies will fade into obscurity in a few years.
Remember Brokeback Mountain? Oh, they'll be talking about this one for a decade. People were downright outraged over the content of this movie, because, really, gay cowboys are just plain, well, wrong. Sex is just wrong. Watching people get decapitated by terrorists on Youtube.com though? That's just cool.
The bottom line is that sex doesn't destroy a culture, violence does. Nations never rose and fell in the bedroom, they rose and fell on the business end of a sword, or the shooting end of a gun. I love my country, and I love being American, but let's play fair. If I can watch Apocalypse Now on FX, I would demand pornography on VH1. I don't think this is being unreasonable, quite the contrary.
It's a proven fact that nothing will distract a man faster from life's problems faster than a naked woman. Less violence, more sex. America will be a better place.
Growing up, I always wondered why this was the case. I found, as time went on, that America has a f aux pa for the sexual, but we compensate with our complete disparity when it comes to the region of violence. It's an odd affair to catch Saving Private Ryan uncut on ABC Saturday night, but I need to hack a satellite receiver to catch naked women.
Last I checked, sexuality never destroyed a culture or nation. Yet, we desperately fight against any sexual exposure, citing religious or social reasons. We say we need to protect our children against the immoral, the unjust, and the worldly. If you're trying to save the younger generation though, you've failed.
Take the Teletubbies. The oldest Teletubby, Tinky Winky, is purposefully portraying a homosexual character. The character is purple. There is an upside down triangle protruding from it's head. I know your kids haven't made the connection - yet - but they will.
Ever wonder what happened to Steve from Blues Clues? He was arrested on cocaine and child pornography charges. Paul Reubens, of Pee Wee Herman fame, was arrested for indecent exposure in a peep show theater.
You're losing the culture war with sex, so get over it. Your kids are probably more sexually debased than you could have ever hoped to imagine, so you might as well be kicking a dead horse.
But don't feel bad, at least you're trying. For the past ten years, I've watched as Tipper Gore, Coretta Scott King, and many, many others have lead a "crusade of morality" to save the "family values" in the United States.
Do you think any culture that has a family that raises children to have them move out at 18 to go to college or work ever really had "family values?" Quit kidding yourself. You've not stopped anything, and you've only accomplished three things.
First, when I get my mom to buy me a CD at the age of 12, I am dimly aware of a "Parental Advisory: Explicit Content" label on the front cover. This is a very clear warning about the questionable content of the CD. This is also a warning no one will ever take seriously. Good attempt, though. 70% of the criteria for the warning is based on sexual content. The other 30% is cussing.
Second, on TV, before the beginning of a show, for approximately 2.3 seconds, a ratings box will appear, them promptly dissapeer. I, like many Americans, have no idea what this box means. But I have an idea. Sesame Street receives a "Y7" rating, which probably means safe for young children. Nip/Tuck, which is known for it's gratuitous violence, drug use, and extreme sexual content recieves a "14" rating. The real outrage over the show were it's near pornographic sex scenes. We watch on "The Shield," however, which occupies the very same timeslot on another night, where a man has his feet nailed to the floor, before he blows his brains out in a most spectacular fashion. Not so much a shrug of disdain from the peanut gallery.
Third, ESRB ratings for video games. It should be noted, however, that games often receive an "Adult Only" rating when they have lewd sexual content, but not once in the entire history of the ESRB has a game received anything above a "Mature" rating for violence.
Since the Bush administration came into power, enforcement of federal obscenity laws has more than tripled. While the First Amendment has been ruled to technically protect the pornography industry, "obscene" pornography has been outlawed. This may sound like a stupid question, but what pornography ISN'T obscene?
Although 60% of Americans believe teenagers should have easy access to contraception devices, George W. Bush, among others, have made big pushes towards "Abstinence Only" sex education. This is barring the fact that more than 50% of high schoolers are sexually active to begin with. Some on the extreme right go as far to teach their children that Sexually Transmitted Diseases are God's punishment for sexual immorality. This claim is as stupid it sounds, I assure you.
While right-wing America is constantly fighting a war of morale attrition with the sex movement America, only stopping to sucker punch the left every once in awhile, where's the movement against violence?
There isn't one, of course. Violence is bred into us from birth. We are falsely lead to believe that might is right, and we can do no wrong. We go to war with the slogans of "God Bless America," and "God Bless our troops," and while I do support the troops, the hidden message is clear: Who cares what we do, or how violent and debased we are, God is on our side, we can do no wrong. So let's kill 'em all.
Go to a theater, watch a horror movie. Go see something like "The Hills Have Eyes." There is more blood in that movie, and it's ilk, than that Atlantic has salt water. But few people get truly disgusted, few people turn their eyes away in shock or horror. It just doesn't affect us. We recount brutal scenes from film like badges of honor, as if we had to watch them, and had to witness brutal events as a right of passage into adulthood. Politicians and critics remain silent. After all, these movies will fade into obscurity in a few years.
Remember Brokeback Mountain? Oh, they'll be talking about this one for a decade. People were downright outraged over the content of this movie, because, really, gay cowboys are just plain, well, wrong. Sex is just wrong. Watching people get decapitated by terrorists on Youtube.com though? That's just cool.
The bottom line is that sex doesn't destroy a culture, violence does. Nations never rose and fell in the bedroom, they rose and fell on the business end of a sword, or the shooting end of a gun. I love my country, and I love being American, but let's play fair. If I can watch Apocalypse Now on FX, I would demand pornography on VH1. I don't think this is being unreasonable, quite the contrary.
It's a proven fact that nothing will distract a man faster from life's problems faster than a naked woman. Less violence, more sex. America will be a better place.
And yet sex, a natural, loving and let's face it, fun act is seen as so obscene that it should be banned from TV and anywhere else. (Although the media has its double standards--I don't know what the USA is like but over here the media love stories about paedophilia and vile sex crimes like that). But happy people enjoying a healthy sexual relationship? Just forget it.
PS I loved the way that blog entry finished: "Less violence, more sex. America will be a better place"
So lets start the ball rolling..Your place or mine?
We can make our own porn and start paving the way towards peace one sexual position at a time.