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Rank: Senior Member Joined: 14 Jun 2010 Posts: 262

Did you ever wonder about the proclivity of American society (and I noticed a bit in European society) to send youth to the slaughter again and again with little more then gasp.

Yet when when it is a youth story involving simply sex with no violence what-so-ever people are up in arms, protesting, claiming the devil is in our midsts destroying our civilization!

Oh, yes, maiming and killing each other is perfectly OK. Feeding women to giants snakes, hanging them, or chopping off heads, perfectly OK.
But add sex, and it suddenly is looked at the heralding of the anti-Christ.

Exhibit A: The Hunger Games: Children, yes, those too young to drink alcohol and work full time, are selected to enter a competition to kill each other. In the book soon to be movie, a 12 year old girl was elected, but her 16 year old sister stepped up to take her place.

Exhibit B: Battle Royal; Children from the same high school class, yes more too young to do anything fun legally forced to kill each other, this time by more gruesome means. Oh, did I mention they all know each other?

Exhibit C & D: "Friday the 13th" and "Nightmare on Elm Street" series. SOME of those victims where old enough to vote, but none could legally drink. But just to make sure the audience knew sex was worse then Jason or Freddy, those that engaged in sex where killed off first.
Moral? You live longer if you don't have sex.

(Actually, it is proven sexually active people live longer, healthier, and happier.)

on a side note (I am sure to generate a lot of debate):
The Bible, Torah, and Quran do not mention any minimum age of marriage (and by extension sexual intercourse). In many parts of world girls nine years old get married.
Lesbianism (female-female couplings) are not specifically mentioned in Bible either (male-male is about 4 or 5 times)

I get the impression religion is the source of rules on what children can see and do, but I do not see where that came from . Of course children should NOT get married or have sex before 16, but they should be open to learn all they want about it and save themselves for later, hopefully marriage.

/ rant

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 29 May 2009 Posts: 6010

I wish I could say more, but I do agree that it is a little counter-productive if people decline their bodies from enjoying itself, rather than enjoy what is in our minds (AKA, morals, intelligence, etc)

Rank: Super Veteran Joined: 04 Mar 2009 Posts: 1548

Unlike Austrailia, the U.S. got the freaken Puritans.

Also i would like to note that Battel Royal is a Japanes movie based on a book. What the movie left out is that in the story, the nation of Japan was a dictatorship and thought that setting a class of students each year to kill each other untell only one is left standing would be a good way to get other teens to behave or at least be a popular and profitable spetical for the goverment controlled media as a reality show.\

But to put things into perspective. Both The Hunger Games, and Battel Royal are ment to be social commentary.

Rank: Senior Member Joined: 02 Oct 2011 Posts: 346

I think is because we live in a society of denial.

Teenage promiscuity is a hot topic that not even politicians want to talk about, otherwise they may seem to come out as perverts if they go to a liberal stand on it.

They think that teens murdering teens is not going to happen to they're teens, cause they live in a healthy community. But when it comes to sex its another matter entirely, consider that sex is a major part of life no matter where or when you lived.

Rank: Senior Member Joined: 14 Jun 2010 Posts: 262

Interesting point of views!

Rank: Super Veteran Joined: 02 Oct 2009 Posts: 6733

Life is just mess up

I mean U.S. is a "empire"
and they say empires rises and falls

as sopa as they try to push they're laws over seas
to arrest anyone off states, when it's ok to do it where they're from.

that mess up to label youre laws to off states
and trying to police to world, that just gonna piss everyone off.

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 29 May 2009 Posts: 6010

Its funny that despite the failure of SOPA and PIPA to launch in the states, its now being pushed to the pen overseas in the form of ACTA where people have no say whether or not it can be implemented or not.

Seems pretty shady to me.