Sex-saturated world

If you follow me on Twitter, then you probably saw that I was researching for this blog. It's also gonna probably be a little more difficult to write about. Why? One word answer. Sex.

I really don't like talking about it especially in places like school and Sunday school. I don't think my parents have ever given me "the talk" either. But how can we not talk about it? It's everywhere in this world.

I was recently having a conversation with 3 friends and the idea for this blog sparked from what we were talking about.

We were talking about a star football player who goes to my school and how he constantly calls one of the people I was talking to. She was complaining a lot about him and how he looks at porn. At that point, I mentioned that he's a teenage guy, and a lot of guys at that age have looked at porn. Then I kinda got in a little trouble for that statement because one of my friends said her guy friends don't look at porn.

We live in a sex-saturated world. How can you say that none of your guy friends have ever looked at porn? Maybe they have, maybe they haven't. Sex is all around us.

Have we ever thought that maybe our friends aren't telling us what they have or have not seen? I'm not saying they have to. Maybe my friend's guy friends aren't telling her stuff. But it's not like they have to. It's one of those things that no one is really comfortable talking about, which brings me to the point of asking myself why I'm rambling on and on about this. I think it's important.

Did I mention that of the 3 friends I was talking to, one of them was a guy? Gee, way to make the conversation more awkward. But I seriously had to get my thoughts out there. My friend was arguing with me about how her friends have not seen it especially the guy we were also talking to. Another friend I was talking to in a different window online, said she could name off several people who she knows have seen porn.

At some point in your life, because of the fact that we live in a sex-saturated world, I'm sure you've come in contact with it. And I'm not just talking to guys here. In a book I read last month, Dateable, it referred to female porn being "chick flicks" and romantic novels. Guys aren't the only ones who've seen it. I wonder if my friends realize that even the girls focused on emotions and not physically deal with porn.

Here's something that happened to me maybe a month ago. I was tinkering around in the kitchen one day after school looking for something to snack on. My brother had two friends over plus he was on the phone with his girlfriend. I guess his girlfriend thought she heard the guys talking about porn, so my brother asked them if they were. Hearing this, I even asked. They all said no, which is a good thing. I worry about my brother getting into that kind of stuff. It's addictive and ruins people's minds.

I think I'm off that soap box rant for now. There's another reason I wanted to write this blog that I just remembered.

Ho. Ho. Ho. What do you think of when you hear this? Is your mind "in the gutter" as say? I'll tell you what I think of. I think of Santa Claus. I think of Christmas and presents. Have you noticed lately that Santa is not allowed to say that anymore? I asked a friend about this. The answer I got from her was something I didn't understand and it still doesn't make sense.

Why can't Santa say that anymore? Someone apparently thought it sounded offensive to women. I'm sorry, but I have to ask this. Do you ever think of that when Santa says it?

I don't. I don't even think little kids think that way. I don't think little kids should know about it either. Stupid sex-saturated sinful world. Our minds are being corrupted. Kids are being exposed to things they shouldn't be exposed to. Kids are seeing things they shouldn't see like porn at younger and younger ages. The average age for a kid to see it is like 11 years old. That's not right at all.

So who came up with this? Who honestly thinks that way to say that Santa can't say his trademark words? I really don't understand this. When I hear those words, I can't picture anything but jolly old Santa gliding over the sky in his sleigh delivering presents to everyone.

Has my mind been really sheltered or something? Welcome to our sex-saturated world. I guess. It's sad to see the world coming to this. Young kids are being corrupted. Teens are being corrupted. Even adults are being corrupted.

Welcome to the 21st century. The technology media era as I'm going to call it. We're so influenced by what we see and hear. It's on tv, in the movies, and in the music we listen to. It's sex. Let's see what is the media telling us about sex these days?

Oh, here we go. There's nothing wrong with premarital sex. There's nothing wrong with having an affair. There's no such thing as consequences. There are no STD's. You won't get pregnant.

Really? Seriously? There are so many consequences that come with having premarital sex. Having an affair is just wrong. STD's do exist. You might not get pregnant, but it's possible.

Media, be real. Celebrities are such hypocrites. They go on screen telling us to live a certain way. Oh smoking pot isn't bad. But at home, they are very careful of what their own kids see. You guys are so nice to us. What did we do to you to deserve to be treated this way.

Celebrities, I'm talking to you even though I know no celebrity will probably ever read this. You are trying to save the minds of one or two kids at the most that belong to you. Then you go on air and destroy the minds of one or two million kids. That's not right. You should feel guilty, but you probably don't because you're getting paid to put this stuff into our minds. That's not cool.

We need to stand up for ourselves. We need to tell the celebrities what we really think. We need to let the media know that what they're doing is not helping us. It's destroying us. I don't like living in a sex-saturated world where minds are easily corrupted.

Sex was meant for marriage. It's not meant for anything but marriage. I wish the media would quit corrupting our minds and twisting what God's design of sex is.