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Main >> Previous Updates >> May 2004 >> May 21, 2004 >> Article ID 4961
 The most effective censorship comes from your wallet | Type: Internet Article |
| | The most effective censorship comes from your wallet | May 19, 2004 | by Joyce Mullins
Summary:
A fashion article. Christina mentioned.
Janet is not alone. Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, to name a few, are misguided messengers who, unfortunately, have the full attention of our impressionable young.
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Recently the words of an unnamed fashion guru caught my eye.
"Modesty will set the tone this fall," he or she said.
I had to wonder, has someone finally begun to realize that too little is too much?
In Delaware, we are not likely to be confronted with immodest attire on the fashion show runway. The worst we'll see are too many people who ought never wear a bikini making fools of themselves on the beach.
What we really need is for someone to put the brakes on the tasteless exhibitionism that is the status quo in the entertainment business.
Who sold so many young female singers on the idea that they have to look like tramps to sell recordings?
Lest someone think that I think nudity is nasty, think again.
It wasn't Janet Jackson's bare breast at the Super Bowl halftime show that was prurient. It was the intent of baring her breast that jolted television viewers even if we didn't know it at first.
When Janet and Justin Timberlake did their number, the prurience was in the attitude of the artists and producers alike who thought we couldn't tell the difference between a bare body part and a body part bared for the wrong reasons.
They goofed. We recoiled. We reacted and now everyone is screaming for censorship. The entertainers are the messengers. Don't censor the messengers. Understand and censor the message. Reject the message. Don't buy their stuff.
What Janet and Justin and their crotch-grabbing back-up singers were doing was foreplay to sexual violence.
A man ripping off a woman's clothing is not good art. This behavior has no more entertainment value than watching a rape. Rampant licentiousness has all but robbed American young people of their ability to develop a healthy sexuality.
Janet is not alone. Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, to name a few, are misguided messengers who, unfortunately, have the full attention of our impressionable young.
I hate to sound like an old fogey, but back in the day, as they say, the people who appeared in magazines like "Hustler" or in strip clubs were never mistaken for people with talent. Any tramp willing to display herself in those venues could do it. She didn't have to have any talent.
Today it's not as easy. Even the talented ones feel compelled to dress like trash and invite sexual violence with lyrics that for the most part can't be printed in a family newspaper.
Years ago a friend of mine said "Sex is for everyone," and I was startled by the profundity of that statement. Body parts are body parts. We all have them. What we do with our bodies, how we present our bodies to others are the guideposts we follow to develop a healthy sexuality.
Parents have to teach their children the difference between sensuality and sensuousness to help them develop a healthy sexuality. The first never engages the intellect or the spirit and results in self-indulgent sexuality. The latter celebrates the beauty of being human. |
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