White Ribbon Week (October 28 - November 4, 2007)

Last week was the White Ribbon week or the campaign against pornography. I know, all of you were well aware of it, huh? So, get a white ribbon and do your best to fight pornography because it is destroying people’s lives!

No?

Okay, but then all of you are probably biased in this aspect. As most of you know, I’m pretty open about sexuality. However, I do think that pornography is probably not the best thing in the world. And I better explain that. Sexuality is an integral part of someone’s life. Your parents had sex if you are around. If you have children, then chances are, you had sex. It is something we do, something that we are driven to do by our genetics and our culture. Our religions say “go forth and propagate” and that requires doing the nasty.

However, when we treat sex as something special or different, that is where it gets into trouble. When we put it on a pedestal or somehow make it so special that anything beyond the limits, that is where it gets in trouble. Pornography, in a way, is unhealthy as long as it is considered something different that art. Yeah, it appeals to a base nature. But, after years of Fluffy watching them, I’m convinced that reality TV also appeals to that same basic nature. Ditto on football (both types) and anything other where people are slamming into each other. Conflict is a base nature, just like sex. However, you can find a ton more games and movies that involve people shooting, beating, killing, slicing throats, decapitating, and disemboweling people. But those are okay. Destroying your fellow man in gaming is entertainment, but pornography which creates life and feels good, that’s destroying our culture.

I think that the answer is to be more open about sexuality, to educate people not to spread diseases and to control their pregnancy. I don’t mean have children fucked by the age of eight or anything, but give them the tools to know what to expect and what to do before they get to that point. I needed more education before I was thirteen. I needed to know more about what was going on before I started to have sex. Instead, I fumbled through it on my own and I made a lot of mistakes. (Though, I don’t think it was thirteen anymore, Fluffy pointed out that I may have been a bit older at the time based on where I lost my virginity, I hate math, but still).

I want pornography to go away. But, I was the healthy respect of sexuality to stay behind. To become part of our culture and let people consider it just a normal thing instead of something special, different, and forbidden.

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There is that. I have naked men and women on the walls of my house. When I have children over, my mother keeps suggesting that I hide them, and I’m still in the opinion of you don’t make it a big deal, they won’t care. Yes, I’ve had kids run in my TV room, stop and point.

“SHE IS NAKED!” or “YOU CAN SEE HIS PEE-PEE!” (Because they always yell it the first time)

And me, and their parents, go in. Never have I had someone take kids out of my house for that. Of course, I don’t make excuses and it is art. (I love Steve Hanks.)

But, recently my new neighbor was talking about not having a game system, so I gave her and her family the five systems and thirty games I had gathering dust underneath my table. The first question was “are there any games with sex in them?” I sighed, “No, but these three are rather violent.” “That’s okay, I just don’t want pornographic games in my house.”

… I left that conversation and the games behind. I also told her that I was of the opposite opinion, but she just dismissed me.

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Well, it isn’t my place to tell you to play or not play violent video games. Just as it isn’t my place to tell people what sex to enjoy, what football team to root for, or even which political party to chose. Though, on that last one, I’d rather everyone not vote Democrat or Republican next year.

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As long as you vote.