Posted on 09/07/2004 5:44:38 AM PDT by Pharmboy
DING DING DING. We have a winner, folks! Of course, you'll never see a sociologist write something like that—far too judgmental.
No, I don't agree. I am over 50yrs old, and when I was a kid, we wanted, and had, sex, as much as we could. I believe that it was the same even 200 yrs ago. Today, it's easier, because kids have cars, and both parents are working, so there is less supervision....the desire has always been there, it was just harder to get away with it in earlier times.
Who are they gonna sue that's deep pockets? The TV and cable channels? the producers? Movie reviewers? what?
Unspoken in the discussion thus far, I notice, is what has been driving this since the late 70s.
But I ain't going there.
Give me a break! And they know the contents exactly how?
I have never watched the shows mentioned in this thread more than perhaps a 1/4 episode each, and I still don't have an urge to go blow up a school...
I'm not justifying anything...like the study, I am just pointing out the obvious facts. Many kids today wait also. I really don't think we were the exception.
I would make that the 1920s in the person of Antonio Gramsci. The Sexual Revolution of the 1970s was the achievement of his ideological successors in the Frankfurt School: Maslow, Fromm, Marcuse...
When there's blood in the water, they'll eat their own.
Duh.
Did they think that kids just spontaneously started to pierce their bellybuttons, expose their midriffs and get tattoos?
If they are willing to mutilate and mark their bodies for life, giving up their chastity is an easy next step.
Thanks MTV.
'swhy I was always surprised that the Clintons had children.
in my opinion, it is not just the sex on TV, but the fact that there is no parental discussion of morality. If parents don't provide a standard of behavior for their kids and they are left to watch what they see on TV and adopt that as what expectations are, then they will have sex. If you don't provide morals for your children, the popular culture will. if you DO provide morals for your children and discuss what is on TV and why it is wrong, your kids will be fine.
'swhy I was always surprised that the Clintons had children.
Maybe they ate all but one.
Something tells me if we cleaned up our TV shows, they'd find another reason.
They left the least-attractive one, evidently.
LOL!
They fed on Chelsea politically instead.
She looks pretty good. I thought she looked good before but if you see her now it's evident she had plastic surgery.
I wonder if anyone's done a study on the impact of the Lewinski scandal on teen behavior?
Maybe they tried but couldn't keep her down.
Amen sister!
Same with public school sex ed classes and the Catholic dioceses which are starting to mandate 'sexual safety' programs (which I weasel my kids out of but they still have to deal with the other kids who take those classes). You can either form your own kids' morals or let total strangers do it for you.
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