I must be jaded because Jessica Simpson is about as sexy to me an Lisa Simpson...not too, that is.
This comes from The Boston Globe, who's ideal woman is Maureen Dowd.
Countdown to "filth is free speech" porn freaks in 3-2-1....
I guess "Erstwhile" would be a good word to use. I could think of a few others.
BLAME LIBERAL MEDIA.
They can not be any worse that the "characters" on Soul Train. I was changing channels and came across that station. Disgusting, to say the least.
This guy is coming to this realization about 35 years late. And I love the way he tries to blame Conservatives for porn because he sees them as playing "repressive games" that only encourage pornography. I don't think there is a single subject where liberals thought processes run normally. I guess that's why they are liberals. Anyway, a little late in the day to turn back the hyper-sexed society. It has only gotten progressively more lurid and more generally accepted with each passing year.
Braving the inevitable accusations of prudery -- which they reject -- critics such as Paul are sounding the alarm. They say the current hypersexualized climate distorts the attitudes of young people toward sex and relationships. In particular, they contend it has a damaging effect on the self-image of young women and girls, who are confronted with a culture that objectifies them while disguising it as female empowerment.I suppose it would be "prudery" to suggest that young kids need to be kept way, far away from the sexual images that are forced upon them in pop culture today--not because it affects their "self-image" but because they should not have to deal with sexuality when they are just youngsters.
I was reading some blog comments a few days ago about the middle-school soccer kids who were booked into the same hotel as a swingers' group. The swingers apparently swung right in the kids' faces. The commentators on this particular blog contended it was good for the kids (who were, it seems, from benighted Catholic school backgrounds) to have to deal with "real life" in the person of half-naked old lechers.
It's American culture- the most important thing in life. It comes above earning a living in importance, and even while doing that, sexual thoughts enter the mind of the average American once every 2 1/2 minutes, or so the survey says.
Sex is the main mission in life- male, female, animal, or object is fair game. It's amazing people can still work, take time to eat, or take out the garbage, cut the grass. But as hollywood shows us, sex is possible during any possible activity.
Even when the earth is cracking open, swallowing a city and it's entire population, and people have but a few minutes to save their own lives, there is always time for a quickie.
Men can be badly hurt, have broken legs and bullet wounds, loose half their blood, but they can get it up for a quickie with a hot woman who has walked through a sewer full of human waste. With the evil (and also horny) enemy in persiut only minutes behind, and their victims broken, bloody and exausted, covered in filth, new energy is found, and sex is do-able.
Whenever porn becomes the topic of discussionI always remember a quip I read years ago in the Readers Digest.
A little old grandmotherly type was returning home to the USA from a visit overseas to Denmark. The US customs agent, a young man, ask her if she had any pornograghy to declare. She looked him straight in the eye and said, "young man, I'll have you know, I don't even own a pornograph".
Maybe that's what the US needs now, fewer people who own a pornograph.
This piece ignores the economics of pornography. Porn was once expensive, and now is cheap or free. What usually happens to the rate of consumption of a good when its cost decreases?
I used to be a libertarian. But I concluded some time ago that no society can combine social libertarianism and market capitalism successfully for long. Inevitably, the degradation of the human spirit that accompanies this combination will result in the return of the jackboot.
Nothing I have seen in the past forty years gives me any comfort that I am wrong.
It gets continually worse and will for a long time.
She speculates that the current climate is partly ''a backlash to feminism, a way of protecting male egos, and men insisting on retaining a power structure sexually if they can't retain it in areas of employment and parenting and so forth. It's a way to hang on to a male-dominated paradigm." Agreed. I have made the same point many times myself.
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Telling isnt it!