Sex in the NEWS
Mood:
a-ok
Topic: Arts
Recently, conducting my own shrunk down version of an on-line social experiment, I queryed the worlds most popular search engine in the NEWS section with those three little letters with huge connotations: S-E-X.
For some the source of much pain, anxiety and heartache, a call for tears, pangs of regret and so on so forth.
We have always been chided,told and warned about the saturation effect of mixed-media messages on our minds; with 'sex' as a selling feature, we need to be constantly filtering our consciousness.
All the tickling feather light articles on the actual health benefits of sex run a far fetched second to the absolute plethora of news items with sex as a headline that are absolutely 100 percent charged negatively.
This is albeit a very simple type of social experiment, one which you can conduct on your own to verify and review my talking points.
While the transition of time over week will supply some vagaries (or not!)-,...at the time of this entry I went through page after page looking for a single solitary article with a positive charge of electricity.
The results astounded me enough to make this blog entry.
From more church abuses, criminal offenders and acts,deaths ,ill rumours and scandals, prostitution, you'd be hard pressed to find a story that is lacking in these elements.
But I did find one or two. One being Candace Bushnell, creator of Sex and the City, is writing two more novels.
The other that the zany behaviour of the sex and the city gals, if practiced and imitated in real life, can bode long term ill health consequences.
It seems funny that a show written by men about women and their quest it seems for a perfect guy or relationship, or the best bang for the buck from a vibrator, or the most mind blowing orgasm... have actually parted company with the most positive life affirming aspect of sex: your health.
But for people in the advertising world, thats going to be a tough sell. So far only herbal essences has done this well with the perfect touch of tongue firmly in cheek.
So here we are men. We have been hit over the head and beat up so often for having 'sex on the noggin'. What was the last count and tally? Oh yes we 'think about sex' every five seconds-lol.
But this is why it is impossible not to. When you cant open a newspaper without some negatory news item whether its a hockey coach or yet another priest or a school teacher. And then in addition to this are the so-called glitzy glamorous ads all of them with the con job on, hoping to allure us into buying their product line.
Minding my self, this is by no means a complaint on my part. This is the state of the world in its reality and its revolutionary counterpart: the turnstile like vicarious cathartic displacement of our feelings thanks to the advertising and entertainment world.
And as I leave you with an adage, also a question I ask my self: what is it that becomes a trendsetting fashion that shapes our attitudes towards sex? What is the turning point and where is the next one at?
With all this negative outflow of bad sex news in the press (a lot of which we honestly: habitually ignore) it is hard to say when and where next the pivotal moment will arrive.
One poentiail harbinger of attitudinal change in the patronized celebrated institution of sex on the horizon are the upcoming sex scenes in the Twilight films coming out and the fact that the star Robert Pattison needs 11 bodyguards seems to suggest a lot .
But remember to filter your mind. Choose wisely. Invest in your self regularly and daily. Youre all youve got ...and for we men, its increasingly a hazardous place for your mind: the market place.
Women do not have it so tough in that category. They have the most influence. And oh yeah, one more interesting thing I found....have you heard that Australia has a new PM?
Posted by mach1231
at 10:27 PM PDT
Updated: Friday, July 2, 2010 9:46 AM PDT
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