PackerGrL's Blog

If we're going to address the obsession with sex, then we better take a look at violence as well.

Let's start with the media, all you see on T.V. today is sex and violence. When I was younger you never heard or saw the things that are on now.

Our children are filled with nothing but sex and violence. Young girls see nothing but thin sexy women on T.V. and on the cover of every magazine and think that's how they should look. So what do they do? They starve themselves, force themselves to throw up and anything else that will keep them skinny.

The bulk of movies and video games are filled with violence, and age restrictions are not enforced. Age restriction on material or not, is it any better for an adult to watch it? Your kids know that you do, so what do you think they're going to do?

The media slowly started feeding us sex and violence, and like Pavlov's Dog we were trained to except it. Not that long ago it was the big T.V. shocker seeing Dennis Franz' butt on NYPD Blue, now that would be nothing.

These things would not have been acceptable years ago. The show SWAT was taken off of the air because it was too violent, in all of the episodes of CHIPs there was only one time that a gun was drawn, but it wasn't even fired. The closest we had to sex was the Fonz kissing a girl on Happy Days, and I don't recall him ever feeling anybody up.

So you're right, sex has become a big part of todays society. I don't know that we're obsessed with it, we've just accepted it.

I think it's great that you voiced your opinion, more people should. I said in one of my