SEMI-NAKED, SKINNY MODELS IN SEXUAL POSES DAMAGING TO TEENAGERS

Good heavens, teens sexuality is making headlines yet again.  This time the music industry’s quality control has been targeted as the leading delegate for pressing the little red button marked “self-identity annihilator.”

There are concerns for children and teens being exposed to sexualized imagery within their environment on a regular and consistent basis as having damaging consequences to these children and teens mental health.

Acting Prime Minister for Australia, Julia Gillard has stated that parents should take responsibility. “It always concerns me when the images of very young people or children are sexualized. I think a childhood should be a childhood that should be replicated in our media and in the way in which we live. We should let boys and girls grow up with all the special innocence that childhood has.”

Bollocks! Let’s take off the rose colored glasses and look at things clearly.

Media is portraying the way in which we live.  Childhood is big business with corporations making a killing financially by marketing sex to children and teenagers, and we the consumer, greedily lap it up and then go looking for more, fueling the very situation that is causing harm. Childhood innocence was compromised as soon as we, societies individuals bought into it.

This marketing strategy can be seen in childrens and teens fashion just as much as on the television screen.  Choices in girls summer shoes is getting slimmer as the heel heights keep elevating in younger and younger age brackets to the extent that a designer has created “death” heels for babies. Sure, they collapse under their weight as they stand, but think about it for a moment, is it really that cute?

We the people are clever, pragmatic and capable, yet as a society we prefer to keep passing the buck until it comes right back to us and gives us a slap in the face. Only at this point do we make a loud noise, and hover around in the background waiting for someone else to do something, anything, even a bandaid is suffice.

The problem with bandaids is, they fall off and expose the wound again and again until measures are taken to heal it. Instead of  expecting the bandaid to stick, lets get in and clean up the rotting mess that we, as individuals have created.  Yes, this sexual issue that is affecting our children and teens is one of them.

Shele & Michael.

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A TRANS-SEXUAL AWAKENING

On a slightly more eccentric path, we are going to explore perhaps the most emotionally invasive and certainly one of the most awkward sexual issues of our time.  The odds are definably stacked towards society’s naïve perception of gender identity which encapsulates sexuality. 

An inimitable portrayal of the transition from man to woman, aired on SBS Television recently.
Trans-America, part of the Indy Film Festival featured a trans-gender character that brought the notion of sexual circus freak crashing down as a result of exploring the pilgrimage of this characters arresting life.  There are no qualms within this film about exposing the unashamedly raw sexuality
that is framed not by black rimmed glasses but by a feminine elegance within a male mind and body
in the creative process of metamorphosis.

This film is a must see. It is inspirational in expanding our intelligent minds to understanding a very real
and definable essence that is sexuality.  

Shele & Michael.

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THE SEX MYTH DICTIONARY

Sex is it really that simple???

Who would have thought that by engaging in sex that we would be boggled by the intensity of emotional reactions that come along with the act.

We are going to explore the A-Z of Sex Myths by exposing the limiting beliefs (myths) that we as individuals have towards sex, sexuality and society sensitive sexual issues.  Our Sex Myth Dictionary is going to expose not only the sex myths but also the ways in which we as individuals direct these myths. i.e. how we express ourselves.

Behold as we identify the nature of sex myths and the ramifications of these myths upon our relationships as a whole, including key relationship areas – the sexual, the spiritual, the financial, the family.

Myths bring with them certain perceptions and a corresponding emotional matrix that dates back to the sexual foundations that were laid in through our childhood and that we as adults build upon, reinforcing the mythological structure already set in place.

A - Sex begins with a thought.

M&M

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