by Elizabeth M Young

Created on: October 08, 2010

TV is the sex capitol of the world. There are hints of sex, graphic depictions of sex, television shows about strange sex, jokes about sex, advertisments for products that leave nothing to the imagination about sex, and fake-sober discussions (among all of the other sex bombardment of our brains), about why we are so obsessed with sex.

Sex sells. Sex gets the ratings. Sex is used to convince the viewer that a broadcast accurately depicts the realities of life. This happens less often than it depicts some director's idea about what it is that people actually do when they engage in sex acts.

Those who are not quite old enough to have sex think that they can get all that they need to know about sex from a steady diet of sex maniacs, giggling jokesters, graphic and unrealistic scenes and talk show content.

In proportion to the amount of simulated, glamorous, well choreographed fictional sex, or downright clumsy reality show sex, there is not much about the science of sex. There is not nearly enough content that covers sexually transmitted disease, the course of a pregnancy, the thoughts and thought processes that are healthiest when it comes to deciding to have sex and the physiological and medical problems that people may have that, if treated, would enhance their lives.

Sex is more interesting when there is drama, dysfunction, crime, illicit activity or something wrong with it.

We get from television that some are incessantly demanding that people avoid it outside of marriage. There is plenty shown on TV that tells us about the dysfunction in even those perfect, nuclear households, where the reality is that  there is a rise in murder, serial killilng, child abuse and predation and the alarming numbers of women and children who are being snatched in broad daylight or killed by someone in the home. There are women who are hiring hit men, men who are fake crying in front of the cameras, knowing that their wives are dead, because they killed them.

 We get this from TV.

The hedonism of general society easily rivals or exceeds that which is shown on TV, and that fact is reported almost every day in one news show or another. Families are battling the consequences of criminality, drug and alcohol addiction and even worse mental problems that distort the nature and conduct of sexually active lives. And many famililes have multi-generational problems with life in general and sex in particular. The reality is that TV cannot capture all of the problems that nations are having with sex, no matter how much sex related content is broadcast.

Sex can be censored on TV, but not in the real world or on line.

If every "John", rapist, other type of sex criminal and prostitute in America turned themselves in right now, there would be no room for them and they would have to be let go. We get these ideas from television news, reality shows and fictional dramas more often then we do until it is too late in real life.

 This is because the co-worker, neighbor, boss, community leader or family member who is engaging in illegal sex related activities is not about to give up the truth voluntarily.

Yes, there is too much sex on TV, but TV is at least censored and cannot even come close to presenting the amount of and problems with sex that are going on online and in the real world around us.

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