The world that we live in is a hyper-sexed society. Every minute in any of the mass media, we may found at least two or three commercials with any type of sexual images."sex, sex , sex is all we watch. listen to and read about" VH1 declares on their introduction to a documentary about this new cultural momevent, called "The new virginity". Where they also state that the current generation of kids are more sexually aware. VH1 researchhow many sexual images were found on a daily basis and found that 38 thousand pictures appeard every day only in programs created for teenagers."This is the strongest evidence yet that the sexual content of television programs encourages adolescents to initiate sexual intercourse and other sexual activities,......" said Rebecca Collins, a RAND psychologist.(perentingteens.about.com/od/teensexuality/)
This is one reason for the creation of this new cultural movement, "the new virginity", many experts said that this movement is like the sexual revolution but in reverse. This movement also sells sexuality but on a cleaner and healthier way.
This cultural movement is concentrated in pop culture, because of its main audience, which is usually teenagers. The main ambassadors of this movement are many of the disney star. The firsts ones to claim their sexual purity were the Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus. They told their fans that they got this ring which they call "purity ring", this ring is a promise to God to maintain virginity until marrige. This "new purity" is also celebrated by a "purity gala". The gala celebrated in most of the United States.In this gala, girls, whose may range from 9 and up, promise their fathers to maintain purity until marriage. Purity in this gala means that they their fathers to maintain virginity until they get marriade, and to have good values.
Many parents only allow their children to follow celebrities with "good moral values", like Disney stars and other pop culture icons that claim to be pure and given a good example to their children."Which parent would not like a kid who is pure and obey their parents"said by the presenter in the VH1 documentary.Currently there are many commercials items related to virginity and saving one´s self until marriage, from jewelry to clothing and Iphone applications, so purity has become a profictable business.
This cultural movement gives so much preassure to media people that with any normal mistake they are judged as if they killed someone. These movements have created so much "sexual restriction" that many parents think to veto programs with sexual content, they prohibit their kids from watching TV shows and movies with actors who do not promote themselves having a clean and moral image. Most of these overly protective parents do not want their children to know anything about sex.
Parental dissaproval of sexual education may cause children a lot of problems. These problems can include early mariige, STDs , and unwanted pregnancies. "Sex education is an important part of effective HIV prevention.....people acquire knowledge and develop skills that they can use to protect and promote their sexual health..."(avert.org/anstinence.htm) As said in this article , sexual education prevents not only HIV but many other mortal diseases, saving thousands of lives per year. To be more precise only in USA "15,244 per year; 1,270 per month, 293 per week, 41 per day and 1 per hour"(wrongdiagnosis.com) So imagine how many lives are ended in the entire world for this lack of sexual basis issues.
A psycological institution examined whether teenagers reaction to all the sexual images they watch on tv added to their lack of sexual education. "The issue here is clearly that we have a lot of teenagers who are having sex, but they aren´t careful enough at contraception to avoid pregnancy....."says Sarah Brown, executive director of National Campaing For the prevention of teens.(Usatoday.com)Teens not knowing or being careful with sexual intercourse is a result of the lack of sexual education. Parent need to give enough resources to prevent these "mistakes" that they may cause death, giving sexual advice to their kids.
The consequence of this purity movement is that drives teen sexuality underground which consequently endagers teen´s lives.
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