Why is America so sexually repressed? (parade, Christmas, holidays, healthcare)
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IMO, the presexualization/sexualization of children, high rates of pedophilia and rape, and flourishing porn industries are direct results of the widespread sexual repression in this country.
Food for the thought: I had a friend who worked at an adult book store in North Beach (SF). His observation after a long time on the job: The more expensive the suit, the weirder the sh*t they were into.
IMO, the presexualization/sexualization of children, high rates of pedophilia and rape, and flourishing porn industries are direct results of the widespread sexual repression in this country.
Agree, all that religious demonizing of sex, all sex, including healthy sexuality, drives the entire topic underground and out of sight. I read about a study done many years ago which documented that the rate of parent/child incest & pedophilia was HIGHER in HIGHLY religious families than was the rate of occurrence for families with an average level of religious observance.
Massive amounts of repression, guilt and shame heaped on sex by the church cannot be good for anyone's mind. The pedophilia of the Catholic Priests seems a good case in point, these highly religious men committed terrible acts upon kids.
Rev Ted in COL SPGS is another example; this guy ranted from his pulpit at New Life (mega) Church against homosexuality and worked with James Dobson to defeat a gay rights bill on the ballot here in CO, but Rev Ted was outed by a gay hooker / masseur in Denver and was kicked out of his church and left town for quite a while to be "rehabilitated" by some other church phony.
IMO, anyone who listens to and follows any of these anti-sex, anti-gay, phony baloney TV preachers is guilty of at least being easily led by these fleecers of the flocks, or at worst a hateful bigot like the talking heads on TV (who are in it only for the $$$).
.... Mike, that post deserves some kind of award for sure. Absolutely brilliant writing!
My three cents: 1. Yes, things are loosening up somewhat here in the US nowadays. 2. But the USA is still one of the most sexually repressed countries in the world, no doubt about that.
Here's a nice real life example from Boulder, Colorado circa 2003: A handsome, buffed young man with a great all-over tan ends up strolling down the town's pedestrial mall/retail area dressed only in a thong (i.e. only buttocks exposed, nothing else) with a beautiful garland of flowers around his waist. This was a silly joke done on a whim. Everyone who saw him laughed and hooted, and young women made cat-calls and whoops. Everybody knew it was a harmless summertime joke. A few minutes later, the young man is brutally arrested and placed handcuffed behind-the-back in a blazing hot police car with all the windows rolled up and left there for over 2 hours before being carted off to jail and subsequently arraigned and made to face criminal charges (Disorderly conduct - lewd gesture).
Okay, are there any other countries besides the USA, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Uzbekhistan, etc. where the story would have turned out that way??!
Oh BTW, why were the cops called to the "situation" at hand?? Some looney parents were upset that their young kids saw a pair of buttocks?? (What?!, little kids see buttocks all the damn time?!?)
Dude, thanks for the kind words.
BTW, were you the guy in the thong?
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I don't think Americans are repressed, but I do think there's a need, by many, to not talk about sex. It can be done, *just don't talk about it*. How else can you describe a nation where some people are against sex ed classes, are uncomfortable with women nursing in public and who FREAKED when Janet Jackson flashed her boob (with no nipple action, mind you).
Americans sexually repressed, LOL, Since when? Anybody who thinks that has obviously never been to the US. We have sex and nudity on TV, just not in every single commercial aired.
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Originally Posted by LML
When did good taste and living with dignity become "repression"?
Good point. Just because we don't fornicate in public fountains or defecate out on the street in public like they do in Europe doesn't mean that we're "sexually repressed." Maybe it simply means that we have a sense of common decency. Americans believe there's a time and place for everything.
Out of a number of developed countries I've been to on several continents, I notice that the US is quite unique in that it is a very sexually repressed country. I mean, people are not comfortable with the subject of sexuality and the role it plays as an integral aspect and necessity of life.
Why is this?
I don't see it that way. Personally, I think the public (media/entertainment) and the youth are sexually obsessed. Some people just don't see the need to comment on it in every aspect of their lives. It used to be called maturity, these days if you aren't vulgar or constantly working in a sex comment within every conversation, you are some how... suppressed.
I totally agree, I'm not sure why our society is like that. It seems so prissy & virginized. There's a commercial that I've only seen a couple times.. it's for I think K-Y Jelly. Anyway, the commercial has this couple sitting on the bed talking to the camera & then all of a sudden, they discover the jelly & the next shot is the two of them under the covers all disheveled. When I first saw that commercial I was like, holy crap! That's pretty risque for american commercials! It seemed like a commercial you would see in Europe. Don't get me wrong, I was all for it, but then I just knew that some christian group was going to come out of the woodwork & protest that commercial....speaking of that, I haven't seen that commercial in probably a month. So, that's just one example of many of how this society is. I don't understand it, I don't get it, I have no clue, but unfortunately that's how it is. People....sex is not bad, it's FUN!!!
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Originally Posted by Bob The Builder
Maybe they aren't doing it right.
They most likely aren't. I would be more than happy to team up with Chelsea Handler and teach a sex ed class for adults.
Repression leads to control of everyone but the opressors. Control is important to the controllers. Sex makes money, repressing sex makes even more.
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