[Strategerist]

Naturally "Prime Time" makes no connection between sex crimes and their own fare – such as "Desperate Housewives" – entertaining the public with adultery, drug use, prostitution and mom's sex with teenage boys. "CSI" on CBS, NBC's "Law & Order," and "Sex and the City" are now inseparable from the "news" of dog kennels and Dr. Phil's search for child pornographers as we are driven into the pornographic sewer of thematic coming-of-age adventures.

There were plenty of sex crimes (but likely much more of them unreported) and actually more open prostitution before TV ever existed.

Of course a lot of the nonsense in articles like this is based on a mythical sanitized past that we've since fallen from, that never really existed in the first place.

[garbanzo]

Of course a lot of the nonsense in articles like this is based on a mythical sanitized past that we've since fallen from, that never really existed in the first place.

Shhh....now repeat after me, extra-marital sex was invented by hippies...there never existed pornography until the 70s.

[MarcusTulliusCicero]

Did you catch the bit about how pornography is also implicated in causing impotence yet also plays a part in rape and incest? Sounds a bit contradictory. It also begs the question as to why, if pornography makes us so prone to falling to all of these ills, it can't be used as a defense or mitigating circumstance. The answer, of course, is that pornography makes you no more prone to committing certain acts than does poverty or a bad childhood. It makes us feel better, though, to think that evil people don't simply do evil things....that it is a choice. Instead, there is comfort in the idea that if we just avoid certain things we'll be nice and safe.

[Jack Black]

Whatever. I never saw hard core porno until college, and even then it was only the one or two weird guys in the dorm who had it. Now it's on TV, on the internet, on the news.

Yes the culture is becoming more profane and sexually soaked. Do you really think this doesn't lead to a increase in sex crimes? I find that hard to believe.

[kpp_kpp]

i whole heartedly agree there is no such thing as the gool old days.


but i think there is a vast difference in the tolerance and definition of 'sin'/morals. i.e. what is acceptable (especially to media).

[King Prout]

thank you for posting the reminder of the facts of history.

[itsahoot]

Of course a lot of the nonsense in articles like this is based on a mythical sanitized past that we've since fallen from, that never really existed in the first place.

My, my so wise, how many yeads did itg take you to acquire all that wisdom. Not many I would venture.

[Aquinasfan]

Of course a lot of the nonsense in articles like this is based on a mythical sanitized past that we've since fallen from, that never really existed in the first place.

I'm in my '40s, and I remember the mythical TV of the '60s and '70s. There were cop shows, but nothing close to what's on TV today.

[databoss]

"a mythical sanitized past"

This is such a cynical statement, you must have been born in the 70's or later...when I was raised in the late 50's and 60's there was none of this crap on television and guess what the correlating crimes are almost non-existent...check through crime reports and with law enforcement officials the rate and severity of these crimes has certainly increased...when I was a kid we used to roam the land free of worry that someone was going to grab us or rape us...today I don't and can't let my kids out of my sight...