I object to all this sex on the television. I mean it! I keep falling off!
I agree with the original poster. Being in the military and have been overseas and watched tv in Europe. Even in Turkey, a Muslum contry, has nudity on tv, shucks the daily paper had 3 thing in it, the war aginst the kurds with bloody pics, auto crashes with bloody pics and nekked women. This was back in 94 and 95. Now I am stationed at FT Drum NY (deployed to Saudi) and can watch Canadien tv. Saw showgirls, uncut and unedited. I watched this infomercial in Italy that was selling “marital aids”. It showed full nudity and had demenstrations of some of the products. If they showed that in the states, someone’s head would explode. I do think that the states would be better off if they(we) didn’t have such a hangup on sex and nudity.
I’m American. I’m not afraid of sex. If there’s sex on tv I don’t switch the channel (well, unless there’s something better on, but I don’t make it a habit to watch much tv anyway). If people don’t want to watch it, why do they act like they’re “forced” to? It’s called a remote control. Switch the channel, folks! Geeesssss…
I’m fine with other people having sex, since it’s none of my business what other people do unless it’s something harmful or endangering their lives (for instance, if I heard a friend was on drugs I’d most likely be concerned). Now as for me, I choose to not have sex until I’m married. Yes, I’m Christian. But I feel that people should be smart enough to know what they want to do and be responsible enough to deal with any consequences that might occur. I just don’t think it’s a good idea for me right now to engage in something like that considering my mental and emotional problems right now, not being able to think straight, etc.
My two cents.
Welfy! I love you, why aren’t there more of you? I have pretty much the same views, if it’s on TV then why should I care? If it was me or someone I knew then it would be a personal issue and I could go and bitch and rant about it, but as you said, TVs have remote controls. America is all big on freedoms of every sort but why do we seem to be the most censored country?
Kitty
I’ve been pretty pissed off about this lately, too. I mean, I am SOOO a product of the “sex is bad” mentality. (btw, Canada has pretty much the same tv standards as the US, a little less in movie-ratings).
I mean, it was fine for me to believe that sex was dirty and bad an all that, not a huge problem, I had pretty much the same view as the previous posters: sex is okay, but not for me.
Yeah right. That was all before I started going out with my boyfriend. And now that we’re getting more physical, I really wish I didn’t still have those ideas that it was “immoral” to have sex before I’m married. sighs And it’s all of culture, not just TV etc.
When I was single, I started buying rubbers and flowers on the way to the date. It was convenient, and every clerk got a chuckle out of it. 
I think it’s very odd how some people like to pretend sex doesn’t exist. “Half of you are going to go home and go down on each other, so don’t pretend something I said was disgusting.” - George Carlin
I hate it when they look at me funny for that, too.
Zette
Having sex is bad and violence is good. They’re American traditions going waaaay back. After all, we killed the indians, we didn’t fuck them!
By the way, I was trying to find someone in the yahoo directory pages last week and found a street named Indian Massacre Road. I am NOT making this up!
A slight hijack before we return to our regularly scheduled rant…
Speaking of embarassing moments in stores, there’s one that really befuddles me. If I buy a magazine with an innocuous title, like, say, Deep Anal Penetration and Hardcore Fuck Perversions, the clerk invariably asks me if I want a bag. No thanks, I’ll just carry it around like this, thanks.
Moron.
Anyone remember the bad old days when you had to ask the clerk for condoms? Why did they always choose that moment to become hard of hearing, so that you’d have to speak louder? Did they do that on purpose?
What’s the difference between the 50’s and the 90’s?
In the 90’s, you go into a drugstore and say, “I’d like some condoms!! [sub]…and some cigarettes.[/sub]”
Of course British television is racier than American television; we ended up with all their damn Puritans.
I clerk in a C-store, and guys buying condoms don’t faze me a bit. More power to’em. Some of them even ask me whether their girlfriends would prefer ribbed or lubed (as if I road test all this stuff). It’s the guy that buys $80 worth of hard-core skin mags and tops it off with 2 bottles of hand lotion that gives me pause.
But, hey, whatever melts your butter…
Hardly a rumor. Pat admits as such in his autobiography. This was before he got serious about his beliefs and started his ministry. He does not excuse his action. Rather, he feels that this was something he needed forgiveness for.
That’s why people pretend it doesn’t exist - only half of us are getting any, and it’s not fair to keep reminding the other half.
My mother is one-quarter Cherokee, so SOMEBODY did!
(We had to go back nearly 160 years, back to the days after the Trail of Tears, to find a full Cherokee ancestor. Lotsa white people married Indians, and so did blacks, for that matter. Not all half-breeds were conceived in rape or illegitimately. In fact, very few were.)
God I hate when that happens. It really takes away the mood.
All this talk about clerks and condom purchases reminds me of a recent trip to Meijer. I saw a couple in one of the manual check-out lanes with a basket containing only the following items:
[ul]
[li]Two candles[/li][li]Two wine glasses[/li][li]A bottle of wine[/li][li]Two cans of whipped cream[/li][li]A 24-pack of condoms[/li][li]One package of ramen.[/li][/ul]
Something about that just screamed college.
Hmmm.
From my way of thinking, Sex is THE fucking part of life.
Ooh, I’m a hack!
I worked at a convienience store for a while. One night, about 10, this really rough looking, older fella, about 45, walks in and throws some condoms on the counter. I take his money, and when I give him his change, he laughs and says “that fucking bitch.” I know it was not pc, but I laughed at the fact that the girl this redneck was going to screw made him wear a condom.
<G> Shouldn’t the topic for this thread be
“Sex is the fucking part of life!”
Because it is, isn’t it? 