In my last post I mentioned an e-mail I received with an incredibly vulgar subject line. This message ended up in my mail box through no prompting on my part. Could you imagine a 1950’s housewife going to her mailbox and finding a piece of mail like that? The FBI and the bomb squad would have been called.
That we are becoming desensitized to sex and violence goes without saying. We have been undergoing a loosening of moral standards for a century and I thank god for it. If you want a look at the good old days look back on the moral standards of Victorian England and you wonder how people procreated in such stifled times. I’m definitely not a prude but I would ask this question: Where will we go once we have completely eliminated all taboos in our society?
Don’t ask me why I’m reading People Magazine en Español but I came across a picture of three ho’s: Pink, Christina Aguilera, and Mya. I have only heard of Christina but I assume the other two hookers are also pop singers. The outfits they are wearing would be shameful if they were accepting prizes at a porn video awards ceremony. The bar to sexual decorum can’t be lowered much more and I only wonder how future, talentless acts will be marketed. You can only get so naked after all.
The new marketing plan of show-us-your-tits can only go so far. Sex sells but once they show hardcore pornography on TV in an ad for a liquid floor cleaner there will be no where else to go. It should be fun to see the advertising people try to reach for new lows to shock their target market. How about a snuff flick to dramatize the new value meal at MacDonalds? How much would you care to wager that in some Madison Avenue advertising boardroom some clever young executive has pitched that idea already?
We are almost at the point of snuff films as popular entertainment. If you have any doubt of this just look at the extreme sports crap that is all over TV. I'm quite sure that skateboarders die all the time while being filmed doing crazy stunts. A 17 year old Washington kid just died last week after he jumped into a raging mountain river during a video shoot for extreme type activities. I have seen these videos used in TV commercials so how far are we from a snuff film as an advertisement for a hamburger?
I am just thinking out loud here and offer no moral judgement.
That we are becoming desensitized to sex and violence goes without saying. We have been undergoing a loosening of moral standards for a century and I thank god for it. If you want a look at the good old days look back on the moral standards of Victorian England and you wonder how people procreated in such stifled times. I’m definitely not a prude but I would ask this question: Where will we go once we have completely eliminated all taboos in our society?
Don’t ask me why I’m reading People Magazine en Español but I came across a picture of three ho’s: Pink, Christina Aguilera, and Mya. I have only heard of Christina but I assume the other two hookers are also pop singers. The outfits they are wearing would be shameful if they were accepting prizes at a porn video awards ceremony. The bar to sexual decorum can’t be lowered much more and I only wonder how future, talentless acts will be marketed. You can only get so naked after all.
The new marketing plan of show-us-your-tits can only go so far. Sex sells but once they show hardcore pornography on TV in an ad for a liquid floor cleaner there will be no where else to go. It should be fun to see the advertising people try to reach for new lows to shock their target market. How about a snuff flick to dramatize the new value meal at MacDonalds? How much would you care to wager that in some Madison Avenue advertising boardroom some clever young executive has pitched that idea already?
We are almost at the point of snuff films as popular entertainment. If you have any doubt of this just look at the extreme sports crap that is all over TV. I'm quite sure that skateboarders die all the time while being filmed doing crazy stunts. A 17 year old Washington kid just died last week after he jumped into a raging mountain river during a video shoot for extreme type activities. I have seen these videos used in TV commercials so how far are we from a snuff film as an advertisement for a hamburger?
I am just thinking out loud here and offer no moral judgement.
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