Sick of Sex
I was at rehearsal today for Droughtbreaker, which opens at the Parramatta Riverside in late September. This has absolutely nothing to do with this post, but during our lunch break a conversation was struck up which inspired me to make another febrile entry.
Our society is saturated with pointless, meaningless sex, and it sucks. If you are a guy, you are probably giggling because I said meaningless sex. Fuck off, this is serious. Particularly in our music. For example - Pussy Cat Dolls - "Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me?". No. Eat shit and die slut, because MY girlfriend has a brain and even a modicum of self respect, and if we ever have kids, she will be a great role model for them, on account of the fact that a close up of her arse cleavage has never graced the screens of Australia's television viewers. We have eight year old girls who show up to eisteddfods and sing "Oops I did it again" in fishnets and heels, and then cry to mummy, why, mummy why? why did the nasty judge say that this song is inappropriate for my age and that whoever let me do this number should be ashamed of themselves? As one person said today, we are creating an environment that encourages pedophilia by churning out under age sex symbols and then we cry out why, oh why are we stricken with such evil? Wake up Fuck Head! It's like the Governments stance on smoking - we'll make it really expensive and put gross pictures on the packs. That way, everyone will still smoke, so we'll make lots of money, but we'll also appear to be doing something about people's health. If it's bad, ban it, or stop whinging you freaking morons! The examples are countless of music today which is completely concerned with sex, physical appearance, and a lack of any emotional connection to one's sexual partner.
Now don't get me wrong. I love sex. A lot. Every guy does, If they say they don't, they're either lying or doing it wrong. But what the media and the pop scene tells us today is a fantasy that people buy into, and it fucks up people's REAL sex lives by creating incredibly unreal expectations on both genders, so they are either so fucked up with inadequacy issues they can't perform, or their view of what sex should be is so skewed that they'll fuck anything with a pulse, and the people who against all odds still try to walk the line are labelled and become social outcasts. Back in the eighties, we still had songs about sex, but most of them were about love as well, and when we sang them, we fucking meant them!
Our society is saturated with pointless, meaningless sex, and it sucks. If you are a guy, you are probably giggling because I said meaningless sex. Fuck off, this is serious. Particularly in our music. For example - Pussy Cat Dolls - "Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me?". No. Eat shit and die slut, because MY girlfriend has a brain and even a modicum of self respect, and if we ever have kids, she will be a great role model for them, on account of the fact that a close up of her arse cleavage has never graced the screens of Australia's television viewers. We have eight year old girls who show up to eisteddfods and sing "Oops I did it again" in fishnets and heels, and then cry to mummy, why, mummy why? why did the nasty judge say that this song is inappropriate for my age and that whoever let me do this number should be ashamed of themselves? As one person said today, we are creating an environment that encourages pedophilia by churning out under age sex symbols and then we cry out why, oh why are we stricken with such evil? Wake up Fuck Head! It's like the Governments stance on smoking - we'll make it really expensive and put gross pictures on the packs. That way, everyone will still smoke, so we'll make lots of money, but we'll also appear to be doing something about people's health. If it's bad, ban it, or stop whinging you freaking morons! The examples are countless of music today which is completely concerned with sex, physical appearance, and a lack of any emotional connection to one's sexual partner.
Now don't get me wrong. I love sex. A lot. Every guy does, If they say they don't, they're either lying or doing it wrong. But what the media and the pop scene tells us today is a fantasy that people buy into, and it fucks up people's REAL sex lives by creating incredibly unreal expectations on both genders, so they are either so fucked up with inadequacy issues they can't perform, or their view of what sex should be is so skewed that they'll fuck anything with a pulse, and the people who against all odds still try to walk the line are labelled and become social outcasts. Back in the eighties, we still had songs about sex, but most of them were about love as well, and when we sang them, we fucking meant them!
posted by Brett at 5:31 pm
4 Comments:
That's sickeningly true, People have spoiled the real meaning of sex. Sex was actually created to be a sacred thing between two married persons, but what has it turned into? Something am sure the creator of it is regreting having invented!
You're so right clarah. I'm sure you (like myself and many others) are entirely sickened by our sexualized culture. Isn't it refreshing to see a man as pissed off as we are? Don't get me wrong,-this man has a very healthy regard for both sex and women, - a rare combination!
Interesting post, and another I found via Camerons blog. The blog that keeps on giving.
Additional to the meaninlgless, sexualised culture in which we are immersed is the complete artlessness of it all. I am no judge of art, mind. But the subtle suggestions used by Hardy, the saturated sexuality of John Donne's poetry, the in your face in its own special way lyrics of Leonard Cohen have so much packed away in what they say, as well as what they leave unsaid through suggestion and nuance.
Its a complex debate, as you start treading into the waters of censorship, but any reasonable person should recognise that the mainstream, if I may call it that, tend to grasp on to the lowest common denominator in order to turn a profit. And tits'n'erse horseplay happen to be a wonderfully appropriate money spinner.
You would hope that humanity, collectively immersed in it, would be able to say: "No, I am better than this."
Unfortunately, this is yet to happen. Which kind of makes humanism a terribly bitter pill to swallow at times!
Good entry -- this kind of thing makes me happy.
I'm no angel, right, and I don't consider myself a feminist in the least. I might not agree with porn and such, but I can still joke about it. But it doesn't take a feminist to tell that a girl under 10 dancing to Britney Spears in woefully inappropriate clothes is not a good thing. If it was your kid you wouldn't be satisfied until they agreed to go out in no less than a sweater, overalls and a parka. You wouldn't want your wife, sister or daughter to make porn movies. But, somehow, when it's someone else's kid, spouse or sibling, it doesn't matter. Society today, it's rife with these double standards.
Pee ess, I see you're an Australian -- I am too! Born in NSW, now living in WA.
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