Monday 15 January 2007

no sex please; we're civilised

If you’re a person who enjoys watching porno movies, the chances are that you’re buying them on-line, or in carefully wrapped and sealed brown paper bags. If you’re a person who enjoys watching porno movies, the chances are that you prefer to keep your liking for porno movies to yourself; your little secret, carefully hidden from view. If you’re a person who enjoys watching porno movies, the chances are that every time you pay $14.95 to view the hotel in-house ‘adult movie’ you feel greatly disappointed; since they totally edit out the juicy bits.


But if you’re into violence ... well then, your tastes are well catered for. Just check out any free-to-air commercial channel on any Sunday evening [or any other night of the week for that matter]. Violence, which is undesirable and unnatural [arguably], is aired freely. Sex, which is both desirable and natural [undoubtedly, to a degree], is one big fat social taboo. And so my teenage son Nick doesn’t flinch at the sight of violence [Scarface is a recent favourite of his and his mates]. Yet he blushes at the mere mention of the word "sex".

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