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Columnist sick of pseudo-porn in entertainment

By Gloria Diaz

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Fort Wayne Reader

2014-12-04


Can I be honest? I’m sick of sex.

Or maybe, I’m sick about the sexualization of everything.

As I recently commented on Facebook, if I wanted to see ass, I’d subscribe to porn. I don’t care about Kim Kardashian’s ass, the one she’s married to, or any other rear ends out there.

It’s beyond hypocritical—a woman’s exposed breast ignites outrage, but a few minutes spent watching commercials or music videos on YouTube shows segments that might as well be porn. How is it that kids are supposed to “save it” until marriage when they’re surrounded by all these images?

And if there’s nudity in a movie, it’s all one-sided. Go on, tell me about a mainstream movie you’ve seen in the last ten, twenty, thirty years that has shown a guy’s schlong. Can’t think of any, can you. Well, I can. It’s Sex and the City. Of course, it was a brief shot, but it was kind of refreshing to see it, even though I didn’t go to see the movie just because of that. The director was gay, so that might have been part of it, but still. I can’t think of any other mainstream flicks that showed that.

Janet Jackson’s exposed breast on national television during half time at the Super Bowl™ was, according to some people, the most horrifying thing that ever happened on television. But watch a typical teen sex comedy, and somehow, breasts are okay. I guess context is everything. But I know that no matter how many hot guys are in a film, the “brief nudity” is going to be all women. If a guy is naked, it’s going to be an ass shot. B.o.r.i.n.g.

So whenever I’m on YouTube and see a typical video with half-naked women basically saying, “&%#* me” with the way they are dancing, I wonder why it’s any different than porn. Sure there aren’t any sex acts, but the line is so close, why not? Oh no, the artist would say. “That’s pornography, and I’m totally against that. I don’t believe in objectifying women.” Sure you don’t. You just happen to view being nearly naked as “artistic expression.” And you wonder why people think of you as a bimbo.

This attitude of mine isn’t really new. It’s not like I woke up a few weeks ago and decided that I was a prude. I guess I think sex should be private. I don’t want to see pictures of your ass or breasts, or penis. I don’t like looking at pictures depicting human nudity because I think it’s sort of ugly. Gasp! Really? Yes, really. Fat, skinny, perfectly toned, I’m not enthralled with the human body.

But I do wish we’d get over our hypocrisy. Breasts are horrible, except when they aren’t. Sex is dirty, except when it isn’t. We can’t have sex or admit to it, but hey! Look at this practically pornographic rock video! But porn is bad. Make up your damn minds! Everything is sexualized anyway, so why all the drama about whether or not sex is bad? Obviously, it’s interesting to some people. But for media to wallow in it, then complain about too many teenage pregnancies, or say that American women dress too slutty, well, what do you expect?

I think it’s stuff like this that makes me long for my childhood. But when I go into stores and see shoes for girls with nearly two inch heels and what look like cocktail dresses for six year olds, I start to wonder. Everyone is sexualized! Every time I hear someone talk about a song I’ve never heard of and check it out on YouTube, the twerking chorus line and bouncing butts emphasize the song’s lyrics, and I feel guilty listening to it. I mean, why not full-out nudity? Because naked is bad. Half-naked is good.

And maybe, someday, the people who decide on the talent for half time at the Super Bowl™ will feature a marching band that after a few minutes of the usual formations, will arrange itself into a giant penis and balls, and twerk furiously to a medley of “All about that Bass,” “Blurred Lines,” and “Ignition (Remix).” At the end, white streamers would shoot out of the business end of the penis formation. Crass, you say? Tacky, you say? Poor taste? That visual just might make up for all the one-sided nudity and pseudo-porn videos that have passed for entertainment these past few decades. At any rate, seeing that would make me laugh. Certainly more than seeing Kardashian’s ass—and the one she sits on.

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