| Is Sex Becoming Too Mainstream? |
Sex has always been a big part of our lives, but lately it seems to me that it is taking over our lives. Everywhere we look, all we see is sex, sex, and more sex. It’s on the television, in the movies, in music, almost everywhere you turn. Sex is no longer considered a taboo subject to be kept behind closed doors. Sexual content and nudity is something that is no longer sheltered from children. Sex is all around us and whether we like it or not, it is here to stay. I really have two concerns though. My first is for the children who are exposed to it. Second, if people have access to sexual content for free through mainstream channels, why would they choose to pay for their porn?
I was flipping through the normal TV channels (not satellite) last night at around 11pm to see what was on. I came to a program that was about the experiences that different women had during their first time having sexual intercourse. The program not only had women discussing in complete detail with swearing, slang, and dirty language, their first sexual encounter, but also featured a full-fledged reenactment of it. This reenactment could be classified as soft porn in my book, as it showed full nudity (not just the occasional boob flash) and featured people actually having intercourse, and performing oral sex. I was pretty shocked as this kind of material was on regular television and on pretty early. Usually they wait until the middle of the night to air programming with sexual content. Many kids nowadays have televisions in their own rooms and they stay up until all hours of the night. The chances of young kids being exposed to these programs are fairly high.
This one television show that I am speaking about is not the only program out there with nudity and sexual content. These days, it is fairly normal for us to see sex in many of our favorite television shows. Sex and the City gratifies us with at least one nude or sex scene per episode, and the Sopranos is not afraid to show us some skin. Are these shows just exceptions to what is considered acceptable or are they the start of a trend? I believe that they are the catalysts that are there to push the envelope in order to make sex a regular part of our viewing pleasure.
It is not just the television shows that are trying to fill our minds with sexual images; it is also on the movie screens as well. Almost every big blockbuster movie contains sexual content. If we are looking to get off, we no longer need to sneak behind the black curtain at our local video store. We no longer need to feel the shame of having to pick our dirty movies from the “over 18” room. We can just walk right up to the new releases and pick almost any movie off the shelf and we will be guaranteed some type of sexual content.
The sexual revolution does not stop with movies either; it carries on into another form of entertainment as well. The music that we are hearing today and the accompanying videos are chocked full of sexually explicit content. Take Miss Spears for example, the role model for young girls across the world. One of the songs on her new album is all about the pleasures of masturbating. Now, I may be wrong, but is this the kind of message that we want to be sending to our children? How about Christina? She went from being a sweet innocent “Genie in a Bottle” to the scantily clad Dirrty girl, which is about the closest thing to soft porn without actually showing nudity. This is the music that our children are listening to, as well as the musicians that they look up to.
I am convinced that there is a direct correlation between the amount of sexual content that our children are exposed to nowadays, and the increase in kids having sex at an earlier age. The media and all forms of entertainment glamorize sex and make it look so irresistible, that teenagers can hardly wait to see what all the hype is about. I think that it is quite ironic that the porn industry gets so much flack for what it does. It amazes me that there are so many restrictions put upon adult webmasters in order to keep the online porn out of the hands of children, while at the same time kids can have easier access to sexual content just by turning on the TV or renting a movie.
Another question that this issue brings up is: Why do people still need to go underground and pay for online porn when they have access to sexual content at the touch of their television remote? Of course, we as adult webmasters provide the very best that porn has to offer, and we can show our members even the raunchiest of content, but will it be long before the same content that we offer will be provided through more mainstream channels? |
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| Article Details |
| Author: Muffy |
| Date Posted: October 10th, 2004 |
| Topic: Adult Industry News |
| Reader Rating: 0.0 / 5 |
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