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tjohn
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Username: Tjohn
Post Number: 4177
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Monday, April 3, 2006 - 1:48 pm: | 
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There is a growing body of evidence suggesting that it is unhealthy for a society to be awash in sex.
I don't think the Founding Fathers were thinking of Larry Flynnt when they added the First Amendment.
So, how do we regulate some sorts of expression without discarding the First Amendment.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060403/ts_nm/sex_dc_5 |
Dr. Winston O'Boogie
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Username: Casey
Post Number: 2028
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Monday, April 3, 2006 - 1:53 pm: |
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Non-story. I propose we do nothing about it, since apparently kids overall are being more responsible about sex. perhaps as a society we're doing other imporant educational stuff that's cancelling out the entertainment images. |
dave23
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Username: Dave23
Post Number: 1600
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, April 3, 2006 - 2:06 pm: |
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I think the stupidity of our mass culture is far more dangerous. |
HOMMELL
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Username: Hommell
Post Number: 92
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Monday, April 3, 2006 - 2:26 pm: |
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Why don't we try to drown out all of this sexually natured content with rampant images of violence and destruction ... oh, wait. We already do that. |
tjohn
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Username: Tjohn
Post Number: 4179
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Monday, April 3, 2006 - 2:27 pm: |
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I don't know if mass culture is more or less stupid than in days of yore, but the means to deliver stupidity (e.g. Internet) has grown by orders of magnitude and we have much more leisure time to immerse ourselves in stupidity. |
dave23
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Username: Dave23
Post Number: 1601
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, April 3, 2006 - 2:48 pm: |
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Fair enough. Stupidity is both subjective and immeasurable, anyway. Part of the problem is that youth culture has become the dominant culture. While plenty of great stuff (particularly music) can come from that, it's also drowning us in puerile imagery and ideas. |
Eats Shoots & Leaves
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Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 3200
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Monday, April 3, 2006 - 6:08 pm: |
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There is less overt sexual content in American advertising and movies than in Europe, yet there are also less teen pregnancies in Europe. I do not think the causal link is direct between sexual content and sexual activity. The article hints that Americans talk less with their kids about sex than Europeans do, and I wonder if birth control is as available to kids here as it is in Europe. |
Innisowen
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Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 1888
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Monday, April 3, 2006 - 9:19 pm: |
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One of the differences between a number of (but not all) European countries and the US is in the schools: the educational systems' structured and candid information and classes on sex education, sexually transmitted diseases, and prevention mechanisms in a number of European countries have a beneficial effect on reducing teen pregnancies.
There's no less sex among teens and young adults. At the same time, country statistics as well as numbers from WHO show fewer teen pregnancies than in the US.
While I haven't seen the numbers, I'd bet that Canada has fewer teen pregnancies as well, in proportion to its population, and for some of the same reasons as for a number of European countries.
A hint: prayer and reading the bible, as edifying as they may be, seem to have no impact on reducing teen pregnancies. |
argon_smythe
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Username: Argon_smythe
Post Number: 809
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, April 3, 2006 - 10:22 pm: |
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I think the tremendous amounts of graphic violence portrayed on mainstream media channels and even childrens' programming is of far more concern than videos of consenting adults having sex.
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Foj
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Username: Foger
Post Number: 1080
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Monday, April 3, 2006 - 10:54 pm: |
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Educate, dont regulate. |
thegoodsgt
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Username: Thegoodsgt
Post Number: 943
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - 7:39 am: |
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Regulate and educate. |
Innisowen
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Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 1889
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - 11:51 am: |
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Educate, and, by so doing, demythologize.
And keep the Fundamentalists out of the picture.
(Let them have orgasms with the rapturous end of times)
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