The Pornification Of A Generation

Education my dear what's your name ! And that begins at home, then school, idealized in church and practiced in society..Then maybe after a few generations (80- 120 years) we will see some positive changes. It is called the enculturation process. Sexual expression is as natural as eating but our children must be taught , like eating, the good and bad of it. Our nation is still influenced by certain religious cultures emphasing sex as 'dirty" ( the Adam and Eve syndrome) so we repress it and release our natural desires in unnatural and surreptitious venues. Sex sells, just like junk food,. and to get customers it is presented in a way to entice every appetite . It is in fact junk food for the soul when presented in mediums that appeal to our more baser desires

I agree, I think violence on t.v. is more wide spread than sex. I mean from cartoons to prime time our children are more exposed to that than the other.

It does typically strike me as odd that people who rally against sex on tv fail to bring up the fact that kids will see ten thousend more murders than they will see *** on television..... just a thought about perspective in this country.

Again talk to your children be responsible parents. And be responsible americans by upholding the first amendment Freedom of Speech too many people want to censor censor censor!!

To the person who claimed this reinforced stereotypes of gender roles, you've got it backwards. This doesn't encourage women to think their place is in the home. This demeans women into nothing more than sex objects and encourages boys to see women as nothing else BUT sex objects. Thanks to the feminazi movement, this is what we end up with - the pornification of women and young girls everywhere, and young men who have no respect for women/girls as anything other than to satisfy their lusts.

Now i feel the need to precourse my view on this story by saying that i have seen some of the most perverted stuff that any human could imagine. My friends are the same way; all very encouraged by the opening up the conservative outrage about all things sex and porn. Im of the Clerks generation, and nothing (seriously) can offend me. However, there has to be a line when dealing with children. Come on people, the obserdity of comparing the 80's to today is beyond bogus; if today is pushing the envelope of the limits, the 80's were buried in the mail bin. I dont mind 16 and 17yr olds who want to dress like strippers, in fact, dont mind is an understatement, i love it (and be aware that the legal age of consent is 16 in most states, which it should be), but when were talking about stripper culture being marketed to 11 and 12 yr olds, its just a little too much; not for me, i dont care, but for society, and i get why parents are concerned, and yield to them on wether it needs to be taken on. The culture i want for the country is pretty outlandish for contemperary tastes, and i'm good with just rolling in my ever expanding drunken, degenerate, 20 something circle; but lets allow kids to be kids for a whie before we teach them how to sexualize themselves, at least till there old enough to realize that that is what they're doing.

Sex sells and it's not going anywhere. Talk to your children! Open communication is the key explain things to them in terms they can understand. Censor what you can and choose what to expose them to in your own home but you can't keep them locked up. They will see things other places you can't stop that, so just talk to them. As a parent my job is to give my child values, morals and knowledge. I do not let my daughter have Bratz dolls either and I have explained to her why and she understands but I can't stop her from playing with them at her friends homes I can just keep them out of mine but at least she knows why.

This article is dead-on. The trouble is, how do you put the genie back in the bottle?

Sex is everywhere and it sells. There's no way to get around it our children are undoubtedly going to be subjected to it whether we like it or not inappropriate or not. Parents need to TALK to their children about what they see and hear not keep them from it. I believe it is the Parents job to censor what their children see, and in the case of the Bratz dolls have in their own home based on what they feel is appropriate for their age level but it is definitely at their discresion, the children will be exposed to things outside of the home that is beyond parental control. That is why communication is the key, talk to your kids tell them things, answer questions. When my daughter was 4 she started asking for Bratz things and I refused to let her have them and told people not to buy her them as gifts and I was honest and explained to her why I would not let her have them. Now she is 6 and if someone gives her something Bratz she turns it down and I do not have a problem with her playing with Bratz at other childrens homes, I cannot dictate to other parents what is appropriate for their children and cannot be there all the time I can just give her knowledge, values and morals and I will continue to do so.