There is a certain mindset that is attributed with pornography. It’s bad, gross, demeaning and derogatory. Of course, there are different types of pornography; it is usually put into three categories: hard-core, soft-core and literary erotica. The first two are videos/movies, and the third is typically books/stories. The stigma that goes along with pornography is changing, slowly. Sex used to be taboo, and nobody wanted to talk about it, but now everyone is talking about it, television shows are showing it during the daytime and you can barely watch a movie without there being at least one sex scene.
I was watching television one
day last week, and I came across one of the Soap Operas that my mother made me watch with her over Winter Break. I put it on the channel, and the first thing that I saw was a sex scene. This show comes on at 12:30 p.m. on regular television channels. I saw partial nudity in the several minutes that I watched, and it made me wonder: how many children watch this on a daily basis? How do we keep our youngsters away from sex when it’s all over the television during the day?
I don’t even have to tell you all about the shows on HBO. Specifically, “True Blood.” This show has more nudity than I’ve ever seen on a television show. In the pilot, there is full frontal nudity of a woman. I get that these channels have to be purchased and they come on late at night, but there is seriously sex in every show on television. There is sex all over this show, and this channel in general.
The characters in these shows, even on the Disney Channel, dress provocatively now, and that didn’t happen when we were children. Midriff shirts were for the “sluts” on television; now, the good girls wear clothes that leave little to the imagination. So, just so I get my facts correct, how do viewers tell the “good girls” and “sluts” apart?
I’m actually watching the movie “Coach Carter” right now, and the scene is on where the basketball team has just won the tournament and the team goes to a “good girl’s” house for a party. The “good girl” is having sex with one of the basketball players she just met. What are young people supposed to think about this? Who are they supposed to look up to?
Actual pornography, the kind you find in the back room at a video store or on the Internet, is actually easier to access on the Internet than the last episode of "The Walking Dead." How is this possible? On average, three out of five websites are created with “adult viewers” in mind. When you go to one of these websites, all you have to do is click “Yes,
I am at least 18 years old.” How many people who are younger than that click that button?
When you want to order one of the adult channels on the television, all you have to know is the four digit code to get past
the parental controls. Most of the time that code is easily figured out because, SPOILER ALERT, children are not stupid.
People these days can’t even trust their religion to be a pure influence of their children and teenagers. In August 2012, the Catholic Church was, once again, involved in a scandal where it was brought to light that the church owns a German company that produces mainly porn. Most of the books that this company produces are considered literary erotica. The Catholic Church knew what this company was selling, but I guess they just hoped nobody would notice. I’m not an expert, but I just can’t comprehend how sex is becoming more accessible and raunchier as the years go by.
When it comes to reality shows, like “The Bachelor” and “Jersey Shore,” there’s so much sex. Yeah, yeah, they blur out body parts or cut the lights out, but everyone knows what’s happening on screen. Then there’s the “Teen Mom” shows. Those girls are becoming famous because they got pregnant when they were 16. Those shows are very popular and making light of serious situations. I honestly just don’t understand it. I want to, yes, but I don’t.
There is more sex on television now than there has ever been. Day time television is becoming more risqué, and nudity is happening more and more. I have seen more butts and breasts on television during the day than I ever thought I would.
