Morford: America Loves Kinky Sex

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Wednesday, December 1, 2004 | Mark Morford

[little jeremiah]

It's all part of the same thing.

Many parents just don't want to take the time, effort, trouble to discipline and teach their children - to show them real love. Real love means raising them properly. If a parent's idea of real life means instant gratification, he or she won't want to take time out from their own personal enjoyment to deal with kids the way they need.

[Commander8]

"Robert Bork was wrong. 'Slouching' towards Gomorrah?
Sprinting towards Sodom is more like it."

My thoughts exactly.

[sauropod]

I was gonna say Elizabeth Taylor (will husband no. 8 please step up...).

[sauropod]

As someone trying to raise two kids in this culture, it ain't easy.

I was just in the local Target this evening. On the shelf, there was a "Sims" videogame. The cover showed adults kissing and my kids were drawn to that like moths to a flame.

I hate this culture.

[82Marine89]

What night do they give away the FannyPacks at the Ballpark?

[little jeremiah]

I'm on the same page.

[TOUGH STOUGH]

"I hate this culture."

Agreed.

[presidio9]

Keep in mind that the average life expectancy of a homosexual man is 42 years and they have a 99% mortality rate by age 60 so you may not have long to wait in either case.

[little jeremiah]

It's not as though I wish ill on him. He's doing a good job of condemning himself already.

He actually sounds like a ghost talking. I predict he's not long for this world.

[pnome]

"It's when it is on the tube in the so-called "family hour" or stuck in your face in a hundred inappropriate ways that is the problem."

I don't think anyone here is trying to argue for more Janet Jackson style exhibitionism. Or trying to say porn spam is a good thing.

[pnome]

Gah! Forget I said anything, I just re-read the article.

[af_vet_rr]

Many parents just don't want to take the time, effort, trouble to discipline and teach their children - to show them real love. Real love means raising them properly. If a parent's idea of real life means instant gratification, he or she won't want to take time out from their own personal enjoyment to deal with kids the way they need.

In a way it's amusing, but it's still tragic. You see all of these parents who get their blood pressure up over sex education, homosexuality, etc., and yet what do they let their kids do - watch TV all the time.

I've got a friend that I sort of upset/tweaked a few months ago - He was going on and on that kids need to be taught abstinence and morality. I asked him the million dollar question - "if you really believe that, then why do you let your kids spend hours in front of the TV every night watching TV shows that glorify the very things you despise".

When my children were growing up, many is the time they were upset with my wife and I, but since they've become adults, they've thanked us - I think it started sinking in with them when they were in college, and they saw just how little many parents really care about their kids.

[little jeremiah]

Agreement here. TV is, at BEST, a thief of time, and that is all the currency any of us have. And we have no idea how much we have to spend, either.

And TV is at worst, a brain and heart defiler.

And AFAIK it's usually both.

I have had a TV for about 1 or 2 years total in the last - hmmm, since I was an adult.

[pharmamom]

Put me on your ping list, please. Thanks.

[hinckley buzzard]

"grinning open-thighed progress"

Am I the only one a little confused with the visual behind this phrase?

[reg45]

In Kentucky, liking sex better than basketball is considered perverted.

Then I must be a total pervert.

[little jeremiah]

Do you want the Moral Absolutes Pinglist or the Homosexual Agenda Pinglist? They overlap occasionally but I try to keep them separate.

The M.A. has a wider scope, H.A. keeps to the one topic.

[pharmamom]

MA please. And I agree with you about TV. My boss always asks me if I saw this or that TV show. I always say no. You'd think he'd have learned by now, but he keeps asking. All we watch is the animal shows, the history channel and the weather channel (of all things). Oh, and my husband is currently watching OU play Colorado.

[little jeremiah]

I like the weather channel. Now if only they had hour long shows about tornadoes. Yum!

But since I don't have a TV, I just have to read books, play music, work, and do other stuff like converse with mrs lj for entertainment!

Oh, and train the cats.

[pharmamom]

Every once in awhile, they do have half-hour long shows about tornadoes. My middle son, Max, is autistic--tornadoes are one of his obsessions...hence the weather channel. Why do you like tornadoes?