Sex

== = = ="All healthy men, ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, know there is a certain fury in sex that we cannot afford to inflame, and that a certain mystery and awe must ever surround it if we are to remain sane." - G.K. Chesterton=

="Everyone belongs to everyone else." - Mustapha Mond= = =

[|STDs and teens] - Read and watch this news story about the dramatic increase of STDs in teenage girls.

[|Article from the Wall Street Journal called "Why do we let them dress like that?]

Today Show story on the psychological and physical consequences of promiscuity.

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Here's an excerpt from the book referenced in the Today Show story: [|Unhooked]

=Does the media inflame the fury?= Consider the public's reaction to this 1956 performance by Elvis Presley on the Milton Berle Show:

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"…an exhibition that was suggestive and vulgar, tinged with the kind of animalism that should be confined to dives and bordellos”
“a strip-tease with clothes on” “[Popular music] has reached its lowest depths in the ‘grunt and groin’ antics of one Elvis Presley”

NOW Consider the lyrics to a popular single by Ciara. [|Click Here]

What happened between the time that Elvis' hips are the most controversial, provocative thing on television and lyrics like Ciara's song are commonplace?
Read [|this article] about a study from the American Academy of Pediatrics on the effect of sexualized media on young people.