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i like being teased
August 07, 2002 - 7:44 am

what i mean is why is ok in our society for us to view death, but not sex?

after i wrote that last night i thought about studies i've heard of where by the age of six a child has seen "x" amount of people dead on tv.

what i'm getting at is, lets say you're squimish at the site of blood. you can watch those surgery shows, perhaps only a few seconds at first, and work towards getting over it. the more people become exposed to something, the less of a big deal it becomes, the less we become worried about.

we are animals and react as such. the more we are exposed to things, the more likely we are to be "tame" around them, not react to them. there's millions of wild animal examples to this, like the pigeons in a city. you can practically step on them, but if you try to get near one that's never seen a human before...it's gone in an instant.

i just find it odd that death isn't taboo, but sex is. we are more concerned with protecting our childern from the dangers of sex than them becoming complacent with the idea of death.

freedom of expression, why not show both?

our society already does a wonderful job of objectifying women and women buy into it. every cover of a woman's magazine has some halk naked or fully naked airbrushed woman on the cover. they are filled with sex tips and how to dress to make yourself sexier. women are assulted from day one with the fact that they must be sexy.

while perhaps on the edge, it's far more socially acceptable for a woman to be bisexual or a lesbian than it is for a man to be bisexual or gay. honestly, when was the last time you heard, in any sort of broad social setting, about a bisexual man?

is tv to blame? a tv is a thing. that's like blaming a gun for killing someone. a gun only do what the person holding it makes it do. tv's only show what people programing the tvs think the masses want to see. they find out through studies, polls, ect. so who's really to blame? the public.

tv programmers fall into the other trap of our society, they must make money. they are public companies and shareholders (again the public) demand returns on investment. there's no room for expensive flops. costs must be kept down and profits must go up. if there's one hit reality show, then there are three next year and ten the year after that. any successful show is copied and beat to death.

hence we get lowest common denominator programing. that means skimpy dressed women. people like sex. we do. people like to be stimulated.

perhaps that's one reason why sex isn't allowed on tv. if we could see sex at any time on any given show, as part of the so called plots, we'd be bored with it. as it is now, we get "teases" of what's going on. we see cloths falling off, we hear kissing or words being whisphered. we know what's going to happen, but don't see it. next we see them laying in best, always something said about how good it was, how it was the best.

wouldn't we all like to have that after everytime we have sex? of course, each time can't be the best...

perhaps it's good that death is commmon place on tv and sex is still taboo.

i rather like being teased.