Sex is always degraded by media.

[happytimes]

As you know I am the one who ranted on the Mass Effect's Sex Scene Controversy (please read and review if you haven't read it. I know it's long but I guarantee you will be interested once you read the first paragraph). Now I'm going to rant about the media degrading sex. This one is going to be short though.

If you watch TV everyday then you know that sex is a very big theme at prime time TV. Do you feel the same as me that the media always portray sex in a very negative way? Women are sluts, men are players, the less clothes you wear the more popular you're going to get, all kinds of crap like that. Sex is a beautiful thing. Probably the most beautiful gift God gave us (if there is a God, after I read the anti-Christian God thread posted in here I'm kinda doubting). Why does the media pollute our young generation's mind by putting all kinds of misconception that having unprotected sex is a cool thing or if you haven't lost you virginity before high school ends you're a loser. It's pressuring teens to waste their money to buy unnecessary expensive apparel and those who can't afford it are picked on and bullied in school.

If you agree with what I'm saying, please support this thread by replying.

[Hauptmann Kauffman]

I agree 100% with you. Although I feel that Violence is more acceptable on TV than sex and porn, which is ridiculous. If anything, we should rate shows with violence high, and sex low. The human body is nothing to be ashamed of. In the US we have one cable channel that has something that is almost porn, and thats Oxygen/HBO. In the meantime we have every network station spewing swear words and death. Its all backward!!!

[Nihilus]

I agree 100% with you. What they do is taint other peoples minds.:)

[Hauptmann Kauffman]

Exactly. Once again i will say, i hate American media...

[JoshDude]

I also agree. Desperate Houswives, Sex And The City - just to name 2. Yes, this is a problem. Our kids are growing up and being brainfarmed into thinking these things.

[Zephyr]

Agreed= )

It's so sad to walk down the hallways at school and hear people talking about being worried that they've never been kissed, had sex and that they're clothing isn't expensive designer brands. Though in my school we don't have bullying becuase everybody grew up with eachother, the other issues really stand out though.

Amanda, a girl my age, feels the need to fit in with the 'preppy' crowd so bad that she has her gradnma buy her hunderds of dollars worth of stuff from places like Abercrombie and Hollister, the latest gadgets, expensive boots and such and brags about it, and she wonders why she still doesn't fit in (even though the truth is that she's just flat out annoying and over the top).

It's ridiculous, it just shows how brainwashed the youth are due to the media.

[Techno Monster]

AGREE totally the media is screwed up.

[Nihilus]

I've noticed that almost all movies have nudity or sex in it. its kinds depressing.

[Zephyr]

Now that my thoughts are mroe organized on the subject...

It degrades sex on the level that sex can be a special connection between two people, a private and intimate one, and with sex beign everywhere it makes it not look as special as it may potentially be and it makes it harder for it to be special. I agree with the first poster in that sex can be a beautiful thing.

Also, women being portrayed as sluts is something that annoys the heck out of me. As it says in a song by Christina Aguilera, "The gets all the glory the more he can score. A girl can do the same yet you call her a whore.", and I think that line is the essence of girls being put down and being portrayed as sluts while it's seemingly okay for a guy to sleep around.

And all men being portrayed as players is downright wrong as well. Some guts arn't like that at all, or at least the ones that I've met and grown up with. It portrays men as insensitive jerks that only want to get laid. Wrong, wrong, wrong! I've never known a guy that's pressured anybody into having sex without protection. From talking to most guys that I know, they're just as afraid of girls as girls are afraid of them.