
Originally Posted by
sxcbbw
The thing is, this girl's from the UK. Totally different ballgame here. Single mothers are seen as filth, glamour models are seen as whores. It's because of this repression that outlets are so extreme. Katie Price is constantly slammed in the media, ridiculed and mocked - and yet, she's one of the biggest selling "authors" here. When any TV show has an on screen gay/lesbian kiss, people freak out. When True Blood aired here on Channel 4, people were spitting nails with fury at how such an awful, awful thing could be shown (after the watershed).
And I personally think it's part of the problem. You tell a little girl not to do XYZ, that it's bad and it's dirty (and gets lot of attention for being so terrible), she is going to go out of her way to do just that. Comparable to how much binge drinking goes on in France (age to consume much lower, alcohol a part of every day life) vs. the US (much higher age before it's legal, heavily criticised). When something's treated as normal, irrelevant, even boring - it ceases to be so enticing. When it's a bad thing only "dangerous" people do - then it's exciting. Then it's a thrill. I personally think the UK needs to get over it when it comes to sexuality and start presenting things in a more reasonable fashion.
Yes, it's not a pretty industry - but when headlines hysterically scream about sex, corruption, drugs - some people are indignant, and some are interested. If a UK newspaper printed some photos of a real strip club, warts and all, I don't think as many little girls would be interested. If they had a few interviews with women that had a "typical", if that can even be said, experience (not a very lucky/unlucky woman), I don't think as many teens would be saying that's the life they want.
tl;dr: When sexually liberated or even sexually confident women are slammed as nasty sluts, and SCs are lauded as evil caves of rape and heroin, while at the same time women are told to be as attractive as possible, and stripping is given a glam edge - this damages everyone's view. The wrong people think it's a magical sexy fairytale, and the wrong people think it's a cause of our country's demise. I personally think it's less about the fact that our society is sexualised, more to do with how it's sexualised - ie. in a very polarised, black and white, confusing way.
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