The Progression of Sex in Hollywood; Has Hollywood Finally Gone Too Far?
Everyone understands that sex sells.
However, it wasn’t always that way. Heterosexual sex in Hollywood started out as movie and TV taboo. With producers only showing the marital bedroom on rare occasions, and then, only with the husband and wife sleeping in separate beds.
They wouldn’t even show a kiss goodnight between a married couple on the small screen of the boobtube.
After that, they slowly began to show characters, married or not, in a sensual loving embrace, with long lasting smooching, (fully clothed of course.) Which eventually led to teenagers parked in cars on “Make out Point,” with their tongues locked in a wrestling match.
And when that had become common place in every home in America, they moved on to the first interracial kiss on the Star Trek TV show in 1968, a progressive move, to mirror an ever evolving society.
Which art should always do in my opinion, mimic life.
All of that was a perfectly acceptable, normal, and slow forward movement of sexual behavior on TV and in our society.
Sex has become more and more prominent in our Television shows and Movies. Progressivly over the last 60 years, It has now become a regular part of the entertainment industry’s landscape, on every show we see, and everything our kids see.
Which, I guess, is the point. They want to hook the younger generation so that the industry has a long and prosperous future.
However, the frivolous use of nudity and sex is now overused, and often unnecessary to tell the story. It’s now used as “a filler” to add sexual attraction and time to every show. It also adds that “shock value,” that brings high ratings, that catches those repeat viewers.
It has helped to make a new younger generation of mind-numbed viewers, who now glorify promiscuity, pornography, even drug use and the now popular, rebellious “Party” lifestyle and “Pop” culture.
When they got to a point that there was no further progress they could make with heterosexual sex on TV, they began to push homosexuality more and more with each passing season. The LGBTQ activists have of course cheered this on.
Hollywood has now gone from mirroring our society to molding it. They believe it is there job to push progressive ideologies and steer popular culture in the way that they see fit. They are now making our culture mirror their “vision” rather than their art mirroring our culture.
The Problem with that is, that half of the population is following their lead. The Hollywood agenda has little to do with the good of our society, and more to do with what will make Hollywood the most money.
They do not have our best interests in mind. Yet they have so much control over the future of our society and our children.
Political commentator and Comedian Stephen Crowder made some great points, siting statistics and sources, in his article on louderwithcrowder.com called: “Dear Hollywood: Stop Gaying All the Things, Especially Straight Characters…”
In 2016 He wrote:
Today it seems Hollywood’s primary mission, especially television, is to shove gayness into wherever it may fit. It’s getting tired. Namely because it’s being pushed by a tiny minority of militant gay activists in the gay community. I want to make this crystal clear. I’m not suggesting ALL gays are pushing for all gay characters in all TV shows or movies. I contend like with most issues in our political climate, the “Gay Agenda” in TV is being shoved by a fraction of a percent of the gay population. Their members of the Gaystapo. Small in numbers, shrill in voice. As stated before, the Gaystapo, and now the Hollywood Gay Agenda Pushers DO NOT represent millions of gay people who just want to live their lives in peace.
Okay? Okay.
The thing is, there seems to be a gay storyline in every modern TV show out there. The one and only modern show I can think of without any uber-gay plot line? Breaking Bad. I’ve watched the show three times. Didn’t see any gayness. But every other show I’ve seen? Somehow it always manages to slip in.
Am I saying gays should have no representation in television or movies? Of course not. But Hollywood knows it can shape pop culture and perceptions. Which is exactly what it is doing by portraying a disproportionate amount of characters as LGBTQAIP (silent F). Contrary to what you push on TV, homosexuals make up about 3.4 percent of the population, but make up 14 percent of films released in 2014. Yet they still complain about being under-represented. How the gayness is depicted I’ll address later, but the result of vastly over-representing the gay population has led to the conclusion you aimed to draw. Most Americans believe the gay population is much greater than 3.4 percent. Americans believe the gay population is 23 percent or more, as shown in recent Gallup polling:
The gay ajenda in Hollywood was very successful in normalizing homosexuality. From the first ever televised Gay kiss on the “Will and Grace” TV show to the Movie Brokeback Mountain” Which admittedly had some positive resaults for the gay community.
The stigma that was once attached to being openly gay for both men and woman softened, and more of them felt easier and safer about “comming out.” Which I personally believe is great and long over due.
In most states they have now been able to get married. And the gay comunity has become an everyday accepted part of our society as a whole.
It worked, but that wasn’t enough for the Liberal Hollywood Progressives and the LGBT activists…they wanted to go further.
In just the last few years Hollywood has quickly moved from only pushing gay characters in some episodes, to including gay and transgendered characters in almost every episode of every TV show and movie. Far exceding a clear and accurate representation of the LGBT community in our society.
It is no wonder that some people feal as if the gay agenda is being shoved down their throats. Much in the same way, that some athiests feel about church missionaries knocking on their front doors.
Most TV shows now do at least 1 episode per season with the main plot having to do with an LGBTQ themed issue. Which has recently evolved into gay and transgendered child characters like on the following episode of ABC’s Modern family.
The following is a description {*with a few personal remarks} of the ABC show “Modern Family” on an episode entitled “A Stereotypical Day” — parents Cameron “Cam” (Eric Stonestreet) and Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) {*Gay adoptive parents of course} permit their daughter Lily (Aubrey Anderson-Emmons) to have her transgender friend Tom over for a play-date. Both parents are filled with pride {*Oh what a proud moment!?} that they have done well in raising an accepting and open-minded child. {*Give me a break already ugg!}But that pride quickly diminishes when Lily insults her friend, which they use as a teachable moment. {*Gotta love those “teachable moments”}
Lily’s playmate Tom will be played by 8-year-old transgender actor Jackson Millarker. {*8 years old, really?}
And this isn’t only happening in the US. A UK television show called “Butterfly” recently made headlines, with both possitive and negitive reaction from the public. Butterfly tells the story of an eleven-year-old boy who wants to become a girl.
We all know that gender issues are a top disscussion in the news and on social media, and we have recently begun to see stories of socially liberal parents, deciding to raise their children “Gender Neutral.” Calling them “Theybies” which for most of us is absolutly rediculous… read that story from TheBlaze here: neutral ‘theyby’: ‘Chose to acknowledge [that genitals] don’t indicate anything about gender’
In the name of progress, we have allowed Hollywood, the Mainstream Media, and even our highschool educators and liberal college campuses to push these agendas to the very extreams….
…but, have they gone too far?
In my opinion “way too far” happened a long time ago. Comment below and tell us what you think.
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