Hollywood and Virginity
And, they’re getting worse.
From the silent film era of accused rapist-murderer Fatty Arbuckle through the sexual escapades of child predators Errol Flynn and Roman Polanski to the admittedly promiscuous Lindsay Lohan, entertainers have been widely, though not exclusively, considered synonymous with deviants and Tinsel Town with Sodom and Gomorrah.
Still, though movies have frequently pushed the propriety envelope, up until fairly recently, directors and actors were restrained from excesses by strict censors and balky audiences and sexual scenes and themes were usually muted in order to appeal to more moviegoers and to avoid an NC-17 MPAA rating. As for the vast wasteland of television, such scenes and themes, as well as outrageously foul language, were avoided as assiduously as intelligent programming.
Today, however, both Hollywood and its television partners are so deeply immersed in explicit and implicit eroticism that Muslim condemnation of the American and Western value system is becoming increasingly explicable.
Indeed, conservatives Brent Bozell and Tim Graham aptly contend that the state of virginity, in many ways the antithesis of eroticism, has become not only passé but a virtually repugnant condition.
As they write, ”Today, virginity isn’t a virtue, but a burden. Chastity is a freak show and anyone who chooses to keep it is a carnival barker. In today’s entertainment world, weirdos–especially sexual weirdos–drive a juicy plot, so virgins are in vogue, as a target or merely as an anthropological curiosity.” . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38438.)
