The other day at work, I was chatting with a co-worker. I told her that I am consistenly amazed by the fact that there is such a strong taboo against public discussion of sex.
Why is it that Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" has caused every live TV show now to have a 5 second tape delay? (This is how we got onto the topic - discussing the tape delay of the Tony Awards) Why is Eminem's ass being edited out of the MTV Movie Awards?
And yet violence, which is worse because it hurts people, is something that's talked about all the time. It makes the news.
Imagine if sex made the news at the same level that violence currently does.
"Hairy fat guy hires prostitute."
"Suburban wife has lesbian experience."
"Census shows that 896,302,000,000,000,000,000 orgasms were had last year in the United States. Film at 11."
Posted by Jon at June 8, 2004 11:26 AM | TrackBack