V-Grams

V-Gram 28

October 4, 1996


Time to think?

The images and sounds of sexual activity have become omni-present to the point of obsession. Once the lure of cinemas showing X-rated films, they now dominate television, music, and advertising in all its forms. Women have taken to using obscenities with a vengeance - language which in the old days would have caused a majority of truck drivers to lower their voices. Children are often portrayed dressed for sex and made to act like adults in heat.

It is against such a background that we need to contemplate the two recent cases of "sexual harassment" involving six- and seven-year-old children. Does anyone of sane mind believe that you can douse children in sexual imagery, then demand of them to comprehend that touching is "inappropriate"? For that matter, is it not the ultimate perversion to subject men to the round-the-clock exhibition of female flesh on the screen, then require that they avert their eyes from the real thing?!

As with most so-called sensitivity issues, the agenda is behavior control. This, in turn, is based on a presumption that some people just know how everyone else should behave. The particular generation now active believes, also, that the 100,000 years directly preceding Woodstock got everything wrong. Might this be the time to exhale and recall that civilized behavior was always the product of voluntary consideration? We used to hold that enforcement of behavior is tyranny, and that absence of common sense is...well, the absence of common sense.