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To:    The Sunday Telegraph
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A "Titanic" example of sexual morality
Date: Sunday 30 December  07

 

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In response to leader article on the abysmal state of sexual morals amongst Britain's young people.

Link to article and thread which follows it at the Telegraph
 
 
I watched snippets of that awful 1997 film, Titanic, yesterday evening, some of which were extremely erotic, the young woman asking the young man she had just fallen in love with to draw her naked, and culminating in them making passionate love on the backseat of a horseless carriage stowed in the ship's hold.
 
Few details of their embrace were shown, which the film maker more effectively left to one's imagination, feeding viewers with shots of the naked couple exhausted and sweating from their passionate love-making, which had covered the vehicle's rear window in condensation. The two young actors are highly acclaimed (and have been highly rewarded) for their roles in this film, which cannot help but present them as "role models" for any young people watching it, which yesterday evening just happened to include my 14-year old niece.
 
She hasn't had a first boyfriend yet, but no doubt she will soon, and what will she be doing with him within days (if not hours) of falling in love? If she follows the example of our two young Titanic lovers, she will be having sex, making (or trying to make) passionate love with him . . . And what can I possibly say to discourage her from rushing into it in the face such massive media pressure, which creates and is hugely reinforced by peer pressure? She'll just laugh at me for being so old-fashioned and probably agree with her mother that it is ME who has a problem and a warped attitude towards sex.
 
The truth is that our society has already been thoroughly corrupted by the now all-pervasive commercial exploitation of the simple fact that "sex sells", whether it's films, TV programs, newspapers, magazines, or, by association, just about anything else. It is a corrupt society we are all completely immersed in, familiar with and dependent on, which blinds us to the reality of just how bad things are, and not just in respect to sexual attitudes.
 
There is a solution, I'm sure, but first one must open one's eyes to the "root cause" of most of our problems (political, social, economic and environmental): a socio-economic order deeply rooted in and dependent on "Homo sapiens'" animal nature and behaviour.
 
At the moment we are in denial of it, Darwin being a taboo in the social sciences, because of the way in which his theory of human origins and evolution was misunderstood and, by some (especially the Nazis), criminally misused in the first half of the 20th Century. But it is the only way to understand human society and to get a handle on its problems.

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