by Christina Bernice Butler

Created on: October 06, 2009   Last Updated: October 28, 2009

Is there too much sex on TV? This should not even be a question. I don't even want there to be a television in my house when I get one for this reason, plus, the horrible language. From my perspective, this whole world is over-sexed. Television is just one medium through which media has been spreading it. I have very strong views on this subject matter. It has honestly gotten to the point of ridiculousness, which is what I say for anything that gets past a point of understanding.

Children cannot be children in this society. I was in kindergarten hearing about sex and my classmates had sex metaphors, such as sharpening a pencil or sticking a straw in an apple and juice coming out of it. Yes, kindergarten. I was in kindergarten in 1994 so this is no new thing, either. One of my sisters, who was sixteen at the time, went on a school trip with me as a chaperon when I was in kindergarten. One of my classmates asked her, "Are you a virgin?" She was shocked. I didn't even know what it was so I was just dumbfounded at the situation and my sister wouldn't tell me what the word meant. She just asked the girl if she knew what it meant and she said yes and repeatedly asked my sister if she was or not. Yet, with all of this sex-talk, I didn't LITERALLY know what sex was until I was eleven! Something's backwards.

Soap operas were always on in my house back then, too. I thought that you needed a man in your life to have some type of passionate romance. You're supposed to want to have sex with him and he's supposed to want to have sex with you. In real life, it's a dangerous thing to believe that a guy's supposed to want have sex with you, especially when, on the other hand, you really want a guy who loves you for you.

These days, I've chaperoned a school trip where the school bus drove past giant Calvin Klein and Abercrombie & Fitch advertisements that feature half-naked and fully-naked but angled and airbrushed and disguised people in raunchy poses. The kids saw these. They also saw people (of the same gender, might I add) making out on the sidewalk.

And forget Victoria's Secret. That Secret has been TOLD...over and over again, all over the world.

All of this prevents children from feeling comfortable in their own bodies. The average four-year-old does not know the names and functions of their reproductive and sexual organs but they hear them regularly and usually in a vulgar manner. What does that do for self-esteem, especially for the females?

I always pray for the

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