Sex on radio, sex everywhere

I have to write this, but I have to admit
I'm laughing as I do it -- I'm no prude.

I have to laugh because that's the same thing
I'd hear older people say back when we had
these arguments in the 60s. I'm no prude,
they'd say, but a song like Let's Spend the
Night Together shouldn't be on the radio.

And I always figured, that meant they enjoyed
sex within marriage.

Well, I realize many people have sex before,
during and after marriage.

And when men said that, they'd usually add that
they learned all the cuss words while they were
in the military, and I always thought that was
funny since I'd learned them all by 6th grade!

I will say I'm nobody to lecture on "family
values."

I'm divorced and not celibate.

I'm also against censorship of the total banning
type. I want porn and Howard Stern to be
available. But that doesn't mean I want sex
continually used to get my attention. I don't
want to see Janet Jackson's bare breast when
I'm watching a Super Bowl half time show.

I don't mind sexual situations being in movies
where it's called for, but that doesn't have to
be every single movie released by Hollywood.

And I don't want every song I hear to go
into explicit physical detail.

I think porn etc should be available, but
that doesn't mean it has to be on every
prime time TV show and billboard.

I think Howard Stern -- whose show I have
enjoyed listening to -- is better off on
a private radio station than a public one,
especially early in the morning.

Just as I think porn should be available on
private TV channels but not prime time.

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More on Let's Spend the Night Together

Somehow we've gone from a time when
married couples on TV sitcoms had to
sleep in twin beds and "Let's Spend the
Night Together" was too obscene to
play on the radio to now.

When "Let's Spend the Night Together"
seems innocent. When TV sitcoms are all
about horny housewives committing adultery.
When commercials for Viagra are broadcast
during prime time. When people dancing
during a break in the Superbowl can
arrange to have a breast shown and many
people defend that.

And that so many people think that getting
married in their 20s is too young? They
think they can't possibly be "ready" before
they're 47 years old.

1. If you wait until you're "ready" to make
such a big change of life, you never will.
Nobody is ever "ready" for marriage. You
just do it.

It's like diving into a swimming pool. Your
body is going to go from dry hot air to
cool wet water no matter how much time you
spend thinking about it.

2. They're living together anyway.

As far as I'm concerned, that's marriage.

I'm enough of a libertarian that I am not
impressed by the state granting men and
women permission to live together.

Since time began, marriage has meant a
guy and a gal living together -- sharing
food, shelter, a bed, the resulting
children etc.

If you're doing that, you're already married
for all practical purposes.

How did we get here?

I'm influenced by the same "sexual revolution"
yet I don't understand.



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