IT’S not just sexting that is a problem, as mentioned in last Wednesday’s Daily Advertiser. It is the slide in community standards, and the way in which new media is influencing our young people.
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Sexualisation of our young people particularly through American digital news services and television programs is largely responsible for the social mess that will plague future Australian generations.
Yahoo News last week led with, “Nudes posted after Selena Gomez's Instagram hacked”. The nudes showed her “ex”, Justin Bieber. One comment described him as “a little shrimpy”. Embarrassing?
Sending a nude photo is stupid. Sharing a photo of a young person can lead to being charged with child pornography.
“Biebs’ testicles at centre of new lawsuit,” was their next offering. It was pure click-bait. Justin Bieber went to hospital because “he thought he had twisted one of his testes” during a soccer match.
A nurse “allegedly got a hold of the file after she heard that Biebs was taken to hospital for treatment for an STD”. All part of the dirt on the internet.
In the 1960s top Sydney disc jockey Ward Austin was sacked after saying, “How would you like something hot and throbbing between your legs?” after a Honda motor bike ad. Those were the days when community standards expected no swearing, no gratuitous violence, no sex, no nudity.
In Australia the trend started in the 1970s with shows such as Number 96 featuring a homosexual, and semi-naked sex-pot Abigail. Sex and glamour are fleeting. Today Tonight in 2011 showed a very overweight Abigail, who “sadly now lives in squalor” on “charity” in “a remote farming community”. Many of today’s youth, seduced by our sex/drugs/alcohol culture, will face a similar fate.
“Couple agree to have sex on Kyle and Jackie O's Naked Dating segment,” Yahoo gushed. His latest attempt at being disgusting is to have a Naked Dating segment, where last week, “The pair were clearly very into each other, so much so that the radio station's censors had to issue an official warning not to let the couple perform a sex act on air”.
Apparently this rubbish is live-streamed. The naked bloke was quick to grab her breasts. Are community standards so low we think this is acceptable? Note that, unlike Ward Austin, Kyle Sandilands wasn’t sacked. Sex sells. Many listeners would be impressionable kids.
Internet “news”, plus films and television, are targeting a young audience. It’s your children and grandchildren who are learning that this is the ‘normal’ way to think and act.
American HBO actress Yvonne Orji was ridiculed because of her faith.
“People are shaming Yvonne Orji for being a 33-year-old virgin,” Yahoo screamed. Typical comment: “Being a virgin at 33 not because you're asexual, or have an issue attracting partners, but because of religion is sad. Not sorry.”
The next Yvonne Orji story was headed, “Virgin Is Causing a Commotion”. Orji explained, “Before any of (the fame) happened, I sat down with myself and with God and thought, When I make it, how do you want me to represent you while I’m here?” and then, “It was like, Okay, I know why I’m here. It’s to make you proud.”
The story added, “It now seems more noteworthy when someone is choosing to abstain from sex.”
Sadly our children are inheriting a sexualised world.