Sexually Suggestive Movies Profoundly Affect Teens

Townhall.com ^ | August 17, 2012 | Rebecca Hagelin

[wastedyears]

What do you do regarding music?

[wastedyears]

Most of that stuff bores me now, I need more interesting plots..

I keep throwing my personal interests around, but try picking up Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card if you haven't already.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”I retired in Aug 1997 and returned to the USA. The first sitcom I watched when I got back was “Just Shoot Me.”. I watched about half of itnbeforenturning it off in disgust. Now, the only times that I see this rubbish is when they play a promo for them. My sisters/ brothers-in-law, intelligent people usually, LOVE some of this tripe.”

I can no longer watch sit-comes nor broadcast TV shows. There are few TV shows that I can stand.

One show I really loved, it had some violence and sexual references in it, but was really well done was Showtime’s : The Tutor.
It was 4 seasons representing historical drama Henry VIII(8)s adult life. It was done with great scripts, acting and some interesting characters. The visuals were fantastic

This was very rare, It was the music and scenery/visuals in the show opening that lured me in

[sickoflibs]

see : #43

[brytlea]

Hmm that actually looks interesting. :)

[19th LA Inf]

Before WW 2, and for all I know, still today, little pocket size porno comic books used to be sold with condoms. When I was 12, one of these got circulated among the 7th grade boys at my school. I still remember the profound shock I got from reading this thing. It was a crude parody of a popular daily comic strip; the first piece of porno I had ever seen. I can’t imagine how much greater the effect of current TV would be on similar age boys, although I suppose schools now give them more of an introduction than we got back then.

[dfwgator]

Frankly, when there is no envelope to push, all of this stuff just gets boring.

[Tax-chick]

I assume you mean “The Tudors,” as opposed to something to do with preparing for the SAT ... although that might be an amusing reality show.

I saw part of one episode when my husband put it on Netflix, said, “I’m not watching this filth,” and went to bed with a cat.

[NFHale]

Yeah, but being mentally ill as theyare, he’d probably LIKE the hatchet thingy...

Ya’s never knows...ya’s just never does..

[brytlea]

Exactly, and the problem is, it has moved the *norm* over. It’s normal and *ok* now to have a baby (or at least be pregnant) before you get married, for instance. If you even bother to get married. Remember the big flap when Murphy Brown did that and they said, “Oh come ON people will not emulate that just because it’s on TV”. Riiiiiiiight.

[dfwgator]

Can’t even remember the last TV series I’ve watched regularly. I just don’t have the patience to invest time in a show.

[brytlea]

I don’t remember that rating system, but I do remember that I was not allowed to see anything rated R until I was an adult and was married! I’m not even sure I often got to see things that were GP.

[trailhkr1]

Subjective, non-scientific opinion, and not germane to the value of establishing reasonable moral rules/walls. The “strict/religious” stereotype is an overused Liberal method of attack against the Right. Consider the trends of fatherless homes.

I was not using it in a derogatory sense. Just saw way too many kids from ultra strict families go totally crazy in college....drugs, drinking, excess slootiness etc and I know I am not the only one to have seen this. I am not referring to the families who raised their kids right-good sense of values and morals and let them be responsible for their actions and gave them a long enough cord to learn on their own. without constantly choking them back in.

I was referring to the families who did not allow their kids to watch TV-or very minimal TV, the ones with very strict clothing issues, controlled excessively what music they heard, what literature was allowed in the house..basically controlled their kids so much the kids could not be kids and discover on their own.

[trailhkr1]

Your post #33 to netmilsmom...you are generalizing and speaking from only your experience, which is rather limited. There are many kids being brought up the way NMM is saying—I’ve known hundreds of them over the years. A lot of them are homeschoolers and come from Christian families. Nice thing about it that I’ve observed over these past 15 years or so is that they come from large families.

See my post #53.

[Tax-chick]

A lot of people do not subscribe to anything like Christian sexual morality. Many people, including parents, do not care if their teenagers have sex, as long as they avoid childbirth or a fatal disease.

People who have different moral standards have no reason to support ours. Rather, they could wish to discourage us, since they believe our values are false and our standards foolish.

[brytlea]

That’s the exact plot of Footloose!

[trailhkr1]

That’s the exact plot of Footloose!

Never seen it.

[dfwgator]

Remember the big flap when Murphy Brown did that and they said, “Oh come ON people will not emulate that just because it’s on TV”.

People forget that a few years later, Candice Bergen basically admitted that Dan Quayle was right.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Duh. Teenage boys are hormones with feet.

Don't go to the theaters to begin with. It's too expensive, too much trouble, and enriches the Hollywood libs. Stay at home and watch TCM or watch DVD's of movies you know are good. Or try to find some good movies online. There are still a few up (though not nearly as much as there used to be, consarn it).

[brytlea]

For a long time the culture held up with the glue anyway, even tho not everyone was overtly Christian. It was a pretty good way to live (and if you did otherwise you kept it more or less to yourself). Now the glue is gone and everything is falling apart.