Here is something I clearly do not understand. The magazines with 'adult' content are high up on the store shelves and covered. My t.v. set top box has a setting that I can use to lock out 'adult' themed movies. I have software installed on my computer to prevent pornographic sites and images to come up during searches. Before many prime time television programs, a little warning comes up advising that the program may contain sexually suggestive content and that viewer discretion is advised. The movies all have ratings; G, PG, 17A etc. This makes sense but, I am driving with my children and we decide to turn on the radio and listen to a little music in the minivan. I get this:
Sex in the air, I don't care, I love the smell of it
Sticks and stones may break my bones
But chains and whips excite me
I quickly change the station and I discover another wonderful selection:
She wraps her hands around that pole, she licks her lips and off we go, she takes it off nice and slow 'cause that's porn star dancing
No wonder my husband was concerned last year when my daughter came home from grade one and started singing:
I brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack and when I leave for the night I ain't coming back
What is the deal here? Why is this okay for middle of the day air play? I don't consider myself a prude, I let my children go to the park and hang on the monkey bars without hard hats or goggles. I think I am pretty liberal when it comes to considering censorship issues but honestly, can't we write some nice catchy pop music that isn't x-rated? And can't the radio stations play the x-rated stuff say at 9 p.m? Maybe I am just an over-protective hyper vigilant mom and I don't see it but it kind of makes me wonder why they bother to bleep out the swears???
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