Sex and the world

What is with America and the rest of the world these days???  TV shows are dedicated to teenagers that are pregnant.  Hollywood and magazines and God knows what else glorify sex in ways that have never been seen before.  Music is filled with songs about people who have one night stands and say that they are in love... and then break up or cheat on that person two days later.  Our culture has been trounced from the high minded, morally driven, art and science based culture to that of the basic cravings of the flesh.  Of "pleasure".

Why does it have to be like this.  I am sick of it.  I don't enjoy turning on the TV for 5 minutes and have sex shoved in my face on networks that are supposed to be family friendly.  I don't like driving from my apartment to my job and seeing images and phrases that remind me of all that crap.  IT IS ANNOYING!!!!!!!

When did this change occur?  During the Renaissance, we had a burst of art and science.  Of creativity and vision.  A cultural revolution like never before!!  Sure, there was sex.  I have read letters by Niccolo Machiavelli that describe his fall to the temptation of flesh.... and then I, with a majority of my class, wanted to puke up every bloody organ in our bodies.  But for the most part, sex didn't seem like much of a talk about thing, with the exception of tavern talk.  And those nude paintings don't equate themselves to today's porn.  It was art, not a nude picture sold behind a Taco Bell for 50 bucks.

The sex references then and the sex references now are two totally different things.  What we see now, what would have been called obscene, is normal.  TV talks about masturbation, something that used to be a very private matter, and makes jokes about it.  Main characters are based around how many women they can have sex with in one episode.  These types of TV shows would have earned themselves disbandment thirty years ago.

Starz and HBO broadcast sex in almost all the shows I have seen them produce.  And then, when that wasn't quite risque enough, they moved to gay sex.  Now that scared the hell out of me when came up in one of my, then, favorite TV shows.

Magazines.  Movies.  Video games.  College theater.  Bill boards.  Songs.  Celebrities.  And let's not forget all the porn over the internet.  Millions of websites are devoted to that one... and so many of them are free!  And the ads about finding a girl or guy in your area for a night of fun.  Or the indirect references to sex.  Sex is glorified!  And some people wonder how I can retreat into a book any time, anywhere.

Why does it seem so easy for us to just be consumed by it?  There was once a time, not that long ago even, that if a guy wanted sex, he either had to talk a girl into it or wait for his dad to bring him to a local prostitution ring,  That prostitution ring can now basically be found in a high school!  Haven't you heard of waiting for that right person... THE ONE YOU MARRY?  Doesn't it seem like cheating on that person?  It sounds like it to me.  And if not for the idea of cheating on the person, how about the threat of pregnancy?  Believe it or not, having sex raises your chances of getting pregnant.  That is a whole other blog post though.

But I can't expect any less of a world like this.  A world where we can hardly take blame for anything.  A world where we let people who lie to us take a political office and then, when those who didn't lie to us start making waves, call for them to leave office.   A world where we can't even learn the truth about our own countries history?  Where everything that shouldn't be sugar-coated is and everything that isn't should be.

SCREW YOU WORLD!!!!! I am going to sleep and dream of a place much better than this planet.

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