Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Weird sense of morals
Our society has a weird sense of morals.
I recently submitted a nude jigsaw puzzle from my JigsawADay blog to CNet's Download.com. This non-provocative, artistic nude of a beautiful young lady was promptly rejected as having non-desirable content.
Yet in under a minute I found over a hundred gore filled games where the object is to kill as many people, monsters, rappers, etc. as you can. The more you kill, the more you score.
Some featured realistic body parts flying off your victims, with blood dripping down walls after you blow someone's head off as they slowly crumple to the ground.
This type of material is perfectly ok for our impressionable 13-year olds to see, but a bare breast is not?
It's a proven fact: Countries that are more casual about nudity tend to have less violent crime and are less likely to go to war than countries that have severe taboos about nudity.
A perfect example is the Middle East. In many of these countries women must completely cover themselves head to toe, with no one except their husbands allowed to see more than a hand. Even husbands aren't allowed to see their wives nude, and must have sex while wearing clothes. No wonder they are so angry and always trying to blow each other up!
People in Sweden, however, often experience nudity socially even though it isn't the warmest country in the world. It's not unusual for people to get together and soak in a hot tub nude with their neighbors. When is the last time you heard of the Swedes invading another country?
Most terrorists come from countries with a severe ban on nudity, and it is so ingrained into their upbringing they consider it a sin to look at a nude woman. I heard where someone suggested the way to keep terrorists off of planes is to require everyone to fly nude. That way the terrorists would never get on the plane to begin with.
Personally, I feel it's a sad thing to not be able to enjoy the view of the single most beautiful thing in all of creation, that of the body of a beautiful nude woman.
For those that think nudity is a sin, think of this: When Adam and Eve were without sin, they were nude. It was only after they committed a sin did nudity become a bad thing. Doesn't it seem logical that being nude would therefore be a step closer to being without sin?
Many people that are uptight about nudity often equate nudity with sex. Yes, being nude does make sex better, but you don't have to be nude to have sex. As far as nudity encouraging kids to have sex, kids are curious. Try to hide something from them, and they will even eat broccoli if that's what it takes to find out what you are hiding. Kids are curious about their bodies, and the bodies of the opposite sex. They are going to investigate and find out, one way or another. If the family practiced casual nudity, the kids wouldn't be as curious because they would have already 'seen it.'
In Japan families often bathe together. There are still public baths where you can mingle with the opposite sex. Nudity is 'seen' but not 'observed' there - accepted but not gawked at. My point is that in Japan the average girl first has sex at age 18 while here in the US the average age (where we don't practice social nudity) for teenage girls is now down to 14 1/2. We also have twelve times the teen pregnancy rate of Japan.
I often said I would rather my kids watch a movie where people are having sex than watch a movie where they are trying to kill each other, because I expect them to have sex when they grow up, but I don't expect them to try to kill someone.
The whole point of this rant is that if we took the time to look at a beautiful nude woman once in a while, the time we spend looking is time we don't spend trying to kill someone or invade their country.
I recently submitted a nude jigsaw puzzle from my JigsawADay blog to CNet's Download.com. This non-provocative, artistic nude of a beautiful young lady was promptly rejected as having non-desirable content.
Yet in under a minute I found over a hundred gore filled games where the object is to kill as many people, monsters, rappers, etc. as you can. The more you kill, the more you score.
Some featured realistic body parts flying off your victims, with blood dripping down walls after you blow someone's head off as they slowly crumple to the ground.
This type of material is perfectly ok for our impressionable 13-year olds to see, but a bare breast is not?
It's a proven fact: Countries that are more casual about nudity tend to have less violent crime and are less likely to go to war than countries that have severe taboos about nudity.
A perfect example is the Middle East. In many of these countries women must completely cover themselves head to toe, with no one except their husbands allowed to see more than a hand. Even husbands aren't allowed to see their wives nude, and must have sex while wearing clothes. No wonder they are so angry and always trying to blow each other up!
People in Sweden, however, often experience nudity socially even though it isn't the warmest country in the world. It's not unusual for people to get together and soak in a hot tub nude with their neighbors. When is the last time you heard of the Swedes invading another country?
Most terrorists come from countries with a severe ban on nudity, and it is so ingrained into their upbringing they consider it a sin to look at a nude woman. I heard where someone suggested the way to keep terrorists off of planes is to require everyone to fly nude. That way the terrorists would never get on the plane to begin with.
Personally, I feel it's a sad thing to not be able to enjoy the view of the single most beautiful thing in all of creation, that of the body of a beautiful nude woman.
For those that think nudity is a sin, think of this: When Adam and Eve were without sin, they were nude. It was only after they committed a sin did nudity become a bad thing. Doesn't it seem logical that being nude would therefore be a step closer to being without sin?
Many people that are uptight about nudity often equate nudity with sex. Yes, being nude does make sex better, but you don't have to be nude to have sex. As far as nudity encouraging kids to have sex, kids are curious. Try to hide something from them, and they will even eat broccoli if that's what it takes to find out what you are hiding. Kids are curious about their bodies, and the bodies of the opposite sex. They are going to investigate and find out, one way or another. If the family practiced casual nudity, the kids wouldn't be as curious because they would have already 'seen it.'
In Japan families often bathe together. There are still public baths where you can mingle with the opposite sex. Nudity is 'seen' but not 'observed' there - accepted but not gawked at. My point is that in Japan the average girl first has sex at age 18 while here in the US the average age (where we don't practice social nudity) for teenage girls is now down to 14 1/2. We also have twelve times the teen pregnancy rate of Japan.
I often said I would rather my kids watch a movie where people are having sex than watch a movie where they are trying to kill each other, because I expect them to have sex when they grow up, but I don't expect them to try to kill someone.
The whole point of this rant is that if we took the time to look at a beautiful nude woman once in a while, the time we spend looking is time we don't spend trying to kill someone or invade their country.
