America’s Culture of Sex :: Sex Media Television TV

Americas Culture of Sex Sex in todays realism can be seen anywhere. It is on billboards, radio stations, personal books, school books, magazines, peers, movies, songs, and the most famous is televisions. Commercials use seductive images, sounds, and music grabbing the attention of the audience. Movies and television are deduction of the sickness of sexual addiction in society. This disease spreads across the country, infecting the way people think and live their lives. Ultimately it is destroying society and what America holds to be chastely correct. Two such sources of writing, Sic Transit GloriaGlory Fades and Countering the Culture of Sex, give examples of what effect civilisation play in the way of living. Todays culture pumps out messages of sexual immorality and the idea of sexual relations outside of marriage are fine. Sexual immorality can destroy families and create dysfunction in the sacred vows of marriage. Sic Transit Gloria.Glory F ades is a song by Brand New. It tells a story of a man who is very inexperienced sexually, and a girl who knows her sexual skills like the back of her hand. The young man wants only to hold this girl and love her. Instead he is pressured into sex with her, even though he really never wanted. Sex is what she wants and he knows it would make her happy by giving into her. He feels horrible while this happens, but he result not stop because he wants to impress her. Countering the Culture of Sex is an article by Ellen Goodman dealing with the entertainment patiences plague upon society. With sex grow deep in childrens minds it creates this idea of what life revolves around. Digging deeper, Goodman brings up the point of why one never sees the consequences of sex. If the media were to show the consequences of peoples actions, the industry could create a sense of fear into the public. The big picture between these two texts says sex is a problem in socie ty.