I just read a diary on decency and am moved to spout off again.
Just when and who decided that sex is indecent? Everybody does it. The birds and the bees do it, the dogs do it. I am sure that many of your children have seen the dogs going after one another. We're supposed to do it. It's what we are designed to do. If some people choose to do it or watch it for pleasure rather than just for making more people, then what the hell is wrong with that?
And what is wrong with my breasts? Well, other than the fact that I would prefer them to be a little smaller and a little perkier. Why I think they're perfectly fine. They're a laudable part of my body, and I like showing them to some people.
If someone else is so pleased with her breasts that she wants to show them to the world, then I see nothing at all wrong with that. Showing them to children? Sure, why not. Most children see their first breast when they're about 2 minutes old.
It's only the decency nuts that define innocent, healthy behavior as obscene.
I think it's pretty obscene to deny children exposure to the sexual side of life. We expect them to root around in the backstreets, whispering and trading rumors with their friends in order to understand sexuality. We sentence them to awkwardness and guilt when they begin their sexual life, feeling like they're reinventing the wheel.
What is indecent is violence. I remember several years ago wanting to see a movie and not being able to find anything that attracted me. I finally settled on an action picture because it had an element of SciFi to it. It was called "Predator". It starred somebody like Arnold of Jean-Claude Van Damm. One of those hulks. Some of the scary stuff was fine, but when the unseen entity started ripping off arms and showing the audience the rendered body part, spewing blood and muscle, I began to feel sick. Showing that to people is indecent. I wouldn't ban it, but I might be tempted to restrict it. I would rather protect children from this, than from a natural, healthy part of life.
Much has been written here and elsewhere about the deleterious effects of violence in the media, but what is not so common is a discussion of the healthy aspects of people as sexual beings.
Perhaps if our sexuality were more celebrated, we would have less sexual perversion and predation in our great society.