Why is it that our culture revolves around sex? I mean...it is to the point where you cannot go anywhere or do anything without hearing, or seeing or saying something that has to do with it! It annoys me so bad! For example, I am a big fan of the tv show LOST, it is a great show, and it is really interesting...but then on the last episode, they have to have two of the main characters having sex (or marshmallows as my family likes to call it-yes, there are little ones in my family). I mean, this was a really good show, but then they have to sink to the level that everyone else is, and assume that in order to be a good show, you have to fill it with sleaze, immodesty and marshmallows. It is so annoying. You cannot watch anything as a family anymore on tv, even if you are teenagers. I mean, it really sucks, to have your one hour of tv that you like to watch a week, all of the sudden be totally perverted to the point where you know you should not watch it (morally).
Yeah, some people might say, "but it isn't that bad! And they don't do it all the time in Lost!" yes, you are right, they don't do it all the time, but they do it enough for me to be a hyppocrite if I continue to watch it. When people ask me waht I want to do when I am older, one of the things I say, is that I want to give talks to teenage girls on modesty and abstinence before marriage. How can I with good conscience, walk around saying this to people, when I then go and (apparently) support these things by watching Lost or any other show that has that kind of thing in it. (Which is why I don't watch lost anymore...even though I really want to, i simply cannot support it).
And with music...you can hardly listen to music with out hearing it unless you strictly listen to Christian music....What is in one of the first lines of Sean Paul's "Give it up to me"? What about "buttons" by pussycat dolls? Or how about the "hits" such as "sexy back" or "London bridge" by Justin Timberlake and Fergie? There are very few clean non-christian songs out there...or even songs that don't mention sex.
It makes me sad (and mad) that sex is no longer sacred in our culture. Don't get me wrong, sex is a good and beautiful thing;in the right context; the context of marriage.
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It's because of a few things things, one is that even in many ancient cultures, music beats were used to represent sex. Secondly, It is not that the actual act of sex has become more or less "sacred" it's that now we don't practice the ignorace and descresion that our predecesors did when they were sleeping around. The last little bit I am going to contribute is this; EVERYONE wants sex, Christians, Atheists, Agnostic, Buhhdist, it's something we all crave, and because we all want it soooo bad, we put it ALL around us. Each person needs to make their own decisions on how they are going to either keep it out of , or in their life. That is all.
P.S. thought provoking blog with a less than crass view on sex in the media, well done
I forgot to mention that it really isnt THAT hard to find songs that are not about sex, just take a step out of the top five on the Billboard charts, and it shouldn't be a problem. I am an huge fan of christian music, but I also love my secular too, and I have a 300 song playlist on my computer that I am willing to let middleschoolers listen to (that means no controversial content) so just start clicking away on the internet, you can find it its easy I promise
Its because you're growing up. Sex was there, we just never saw it before - trust me on that one.
Sex is in places like the tv show Lost because the show itself is aimed at an adult audience and its something adults do. The music is aimed at an age group that is transitioning into adulthood and its a way of socializing youth into the world they are coming into. Sure, many misconstrue that as a call to have sex instead of a call to begin understand it all, and thats a shame.
I'm right there with you that sex is taken out of the proper context of marriage - I'm very catholic and all about abstinence until marriage and such. Pure by Choice - but not everyone will be. I think your dream to talk to teens is admirable, but don't give up on it just because the sex is there. It will always be - thats why its really special for a girl or guy to wait till marriage - because there is a lot of pressure and influence to do it.
I agree. Our culture is way too focused on sex. Sure they put it in movies because "it's something adults do" but do they really have to put 20 minute sex scenes in every "adult" movie? And if they absolutely have to put it in the movies (which I don't believe they do) why the heck can't they be discreet about it?