When did dating become synonymous with promiscuity? In the past it was not unusual for a teenage girl to have a date to a football game with a young man on a Friday evening and a movie date with a different young man on a Saturday evening. However by today’s standards she would be considered promiscuous because for some reason sex is presumed to occur.
Sex has been taken so lightly these days, as if two individuals are meeting up for an afternoon jog. Our society is leaving nothing up to the imagination. From a very young age children are exposed to adult content and situations. The clothing that is in the little girls department is appalling; I fear that it is a come hither call to sexual predators. Little girls should not be dressing in trampy adult women clothing. Short skirts, shorts, bikinis with padding in the tops, exotic prints, high heels for toddles (PLEASE!) etc. this type of wardrobe is grooming a child for a life where sex appeal gets you attention and not their intellect.
Since society is so cavalier with provocative attire, exposing children to sexually explicit games, and television shows at such a young age it is no wonder why teens are exploring their sexuality. They probably see it as a right of passages, this is what the adults do, and they are being groomed into young adults, right? The excitement, the scandal, the attention that the promiscuous parties receive in television shows is appealing to young minds. Reality television only magnifies this idea. There are two shows that instantly come to mind when it comes to sex and promiscuity, Jersey Shore and Teen Mom. These two shows are on MTV, granted not the most elite programming but chances are, even if you do not have cable or allow your child to view such programming, they have somewhere or somehow, or they have at least heard other children discuss it. These two shows glamorize sex appeal, premarital sex, and promiscuity. Teen Mom is a sequel to the original show titled, Sixteen and Pregnant. Sixteen and Pregnant followed around girls who, you guessed it, were pregnant at sixteen. MTV has exclaimed that the purpose of the show is to illustrate the hardships these women go through in hopes that other teens will not follow in their footsteps. However, while viewing the show quite the contrary is being illustrated, the teen girls all have their own places, cars, adorable babies, oh, and they are on MTV, they are famous, talk about the life. That playing house thing doesn’t look to difficult on Teen Mom, why wouldn’t a teen contemplate the same road, you could be famous? Next stop Jersey Shore.
Wow, what isn’t wrong with this show? The show originally aired on the Jersey Shore but they have most recently made a mockery of Americans in Italy. The show has eight or nine characters; I mean reality television stars that live together for a few weeks. Now, for the most part all I can gather, with regard to a purpose of the show is to watch as people destroy their lives? Or maybe they are trying to be examples of what you should not do with your lives? They all drink heavily, sleep in, are late for work which is the equivalent of a first time job for a teenager (they work at a pizzeria), sleep with each other, sleep with strangers, and fight. I believe that about sums up the program, oh, I forgot, they also eat sometimes. So, once again this show is glamorizing behaviors we do not want our children to partake in, it illustrates nothing but rude, promiscuous, intoxicating behavior.
Society is definitely steering our future generations in the wrong direction, perhaps it is hopeless? Oh, but wait, is society responsible for our children or are we, the parents responsible for our children? Last time I checked, my five year old doesn’t have a license or a job to purchase clothes, so who is buying the clothes? And those same children live with adults, what type of behavior is being modeled in their homes? Is Jersey Shore and Teen Mom behavior be modeled?
Parents take a stand, be the positive role model in your child’s life. On that note I will step down from my soap box and we are off to church.
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