Posted on 12/29/2008 8:05:34 AM PST by NYer
I so agree with you!
Absolutely! Judging from some of the posts to this thread, there is a much broader market for sex than I had once thought.
This is hardly that. It’s not being pushed...it’s not like they’re taking them into strip clubs or burlesque shows.
Hey, if you consider yourself an animal far be it from me to disagree, you know yourself far better than I ever could. As for myself, I am not an animal nor do I behave like one. Dogs screw on your front lawn, take a dump right in front of you....because they are animals, they have no modesty, no morals. If you really believe humans are no different than animals, I pity you.
You said — “He shouldnt ignore the topic with his children, thats a huge mistake. He has to carefully and clearly, in age-appropriate language, tell them what they saw is wrong, and why, and focus on the truth about sex.
I cant beleive he is just not saying anything to his children.”
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Yeah, that is a mistake. If he is in the practice of avoiding it, then the culture will “teach” the kids, eventually, because of the lack of “explanation” (not just “because I said so...” either).
There is a good and righteous basis for how to think and act, according to the Bible, the Word of God. For those that think that “religion” is the answer — no, that’s wrong. It’s not “religion” — but rather — it’s the truth of the Word of God, who is our only Creator God of the Universe and the *only one* who has offered salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ (and the personal acceptance of that salvation).
So, it’s not simply “religion” or “moral values” but the truth (and the *only absolute truth* out there) of the Word of God, the Bible...
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Being a good role model is more important than anything we can possibly say, imho. All the words in the world can't undo years of bad behaviour, and children who do not see love from and between their parents will have difficulty committing themselves to another in marriage.
Imho, men who delve into pornography do so because they are unable to find this closeness to or love for women. The source of this conflict can be found in childhood.
Humans have an animal nature, to which they can be degraded through manipulation and desensitisation. Animals make much better workers, of course.
Workers in the sense of labourers, of course. In terms of productivity, rational, self-controlled men leave all animals in the dust.
Elephants will work for peanuts, but they cannot design an integrated circuit to save their lives.
It’s not a question of “santizing” (and actually, cleanliness of mind and body is a GOOD thing, not a bad thing!).
It’s a question of exposing children to sexually libertine images from a young age. It sexualizes them when they are not even physically mature, causing them to think of themselves and others as sex objects. And next, promoting children AS sex objects more and more.
Just because adults enjoy sex in private doesn’t mean that children should experience the same thing. Private is the key word.
If you don’t see this it means you have a severe blind spot.
Public places should be family friendly - iow, no explicit or highly suggestive sexual displays. That is a baseline of human civilization. It is quickly going by the wayside, apparently, in the name of “freedom” or lib(eral)tarianism.
Stable families are the very foundation of human civilization. Swinger clubs and porn are not. A high rate of illegitimacy (which is getting higher and higher) creates feral children. Result? Read the headlines like groups of kids killing people, kids killing or raping other kids, and then growing up into barbarians. It’s happening right now, and will get worse.
A few years ago I was walking down (Main Street, U.S.A.) in our medium-sized town with our nine-year-old son. We passed by a floor-to-ceiling glass window in an empty store front which had been rented for a month to display an art project. There in the window for all the world and every child in town to see were two white, life-sized plaster replicas of naked men hanging upside-down by their genitals.
Consider the impression this assault would have on young children, especially boys. My son was scared witless.
When I complained to the city council I was told "it's just art." The patronizing smugness could be cut with a knife. I suppose they were saving that image for the next "art" exhibit.
Thankfully, the empty store front became a GAP. That's progress, of a sort.
I really do feel that some of her goodness comes from a strong father figure that tells her when she is being immodest.
It makes it easier on me.
If we valued strong men and good fathers, little girls wouldn’t be dressing like tarts to get attention.
Here’s a link to the future of racing swimwear:
Sexy stuff.
>>There in the window for all the world and every child in town to see were two white, life-sized plaster replicas of naked men hanging upside-down by their genitals.<<
OH GEEZ OH Pete! How horrific!
Art, yeah right.....
Those are Eastern European countries still dealing with the social chaos caused by communism. During communism, abortion was treated as the main form of birth control in those countries. Their high abortion rates are not due to the sexualization of their cultures by Victoria’s Secret ads.
>>Well, I do have a rather obvious and simple answer: DON’T SHOP AT A MALL!!!
I know most would find it shocking to even suggest such a thing<<
Actually, no. If you look back at my posts, that is exactly what we do.
I wish I didn’t believe it, but after some of the “art” promoted by our own government via the NEA, such as Mapplethorpe’s exhibit, I’m afraid I do.
Fun fact: 90 percent of medalists in Beijing wore full-body suits.
http://graphics.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/swim_06_30/swim3.jpg
Some are now trying to ban them, claiming they give an unfair advantage.
Victoria’s Secret is a Lingerie store. It would make sense that the advertisements would be models wearing lingerie...if they wore turtlenecks it would be a bit strange no? Also, I have yet to see a Victoria Secret store display that is “pornographic”....
What do you propose as a solution? I’m not trying to trap you- I just can’t think of any way to make people act “decently” without relying on government action.
That’s right. The sexualisation occurred under the Communists, who were of course venomously hostile to traditional monogamy and well aware of the greater ease of exercising social control over a demoralised and degraded populace.
The abortions weren’t a bug; they were a feature of the government deployment of “sexual liberation” as an implement of social control.
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