Do you think society today is oversexualized? What leads you to your conclusion?

Answer 1

Compared to most other points in our history, today's society is sexually oppressed

Answer 2

Absolutely yes. You cannot read the paper, turn on the TV or go to the movies without sex and sexuality being thrust at you. Many movies in the theatre have wonderful interesting plots, yet seemingly "have to" through a sex scene into it, apparently out of society's desire to have it in there. If there wasn't a market for such things, it would not be produced.
In the schools, and in fashion, there is an over emphasis on immodesty. It is practically impossible in this day and age to find modest prom dresses. My daughter tells her mother that even 10 year girls at her school are into wearing provocative underwear like thongs. That is just way to early...... Why does all of this happen? Because of society's over emphasis on sexuality.

Answer 3

I wouldn't know, since I would have difficulties in making a comparison between societies today and societies in the past. As I have lived in (some of) the ones today, while about those from the past I have only heard from history books and the like.
But as a personal belief, I think humans have always been *very* interested in sex and the stuff associated with it, today as well as yesterday. Maybe today we are just more aware of this.

Answer 4

Yes. Madison Avenue does not make decisions in the dark. Before they produce an ad, they're pretty sure it's going to sell the product. Apparently, their reserach concludes that the best way to get the American people to buy a product is to imply or outright suggest that by doing so, they'll enjoy a sexual encounter. I find that pathetic.

Another reason I think that is what children (yes, teens are children) put on their myspace-type pages.

Answer 5

Completely!!
Look at the toys and clothes being marketed to little girls now. They have Bratz dolls that would be at home working in a strip club and mini skirts with belly showing shirts, all for girls under 10 years old.
Teenagers are going to 'ratemybody' and posting photographs that border on pornography. Artists are recording songs about 'humps & bumps' and 'dontcha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me' that kids as young as 7 know the words to!!
All of that without even bringing television & movies in the mix.
Then go ahead and think back to when you were in Junior High & High School, we did not look like that!! Girls are developing so much sooner now and they're being taught that if you've got it, flaunt it.
So yes I think that Society has taken a very big Viagra.

Answer 6

Not really.

There were some fascinating studies on this a while back, comparing sex studies and surveys from the 50s to modern ones. The amount of premarital sex has not changed, the amount of oral/anal sex has not changed, the amount of sex in general hasn't changed, and so on. Sexuality itself has remained more or less the same for the last 50+ years.

The ONLY difference, is that it's sensationalized more in the media, so we're more aware of it. The sexuality itself hasn't changed.

However it is worth mentioning that our sexuality is immature and primitive compared to that of Europe in regards to how we perceive it. We get more pissed off about a nipple slip than we do about gratuitous violence and bloodshed - there is something deeply and fundamentally wrong with US morality.

Answer 7

Yes. I recall the bible telling us to be "modest".
But aside from that, kids and adults are being taken and abused and molested and either killed or held under bondage for years having their minds twisted, and now there's even websites to tell us where they are located in our society, and our jails are full of those people with weird ideas. Granted sex is a part of life but when it's overemphasized it gets people in trouble and we have the proof of the people getting into trouble because of it,

Answer 8

Yes... when my 5 yr old granddaughter tried to give me an open mouth kiss... I had mentioned to her mother that she had been making comments and acting in ways not normal for any 5 yr old...begining since starting pre school... her mother had just said I was "old fashioned"... her mother witnessed this one... thankfully she did not freak out... when my granddaughter was asked, calmly, where she learned to do that she said she sees it all the time in the park. And Aunt****** dose it all the time with *****... it is not from TV as they do not watch TV, broadcast or cable, just videos that are pre screened... she has picked up other sexual behavior from other children at Kindergarten as my daughter-in-law has now come to see for herself.... corrective instruction is now being given... calmly and reasonably... and is having positive effect... and her younger sisters are being included as they will be in the school system soon.

Answer 9

The U.S. is one of the the most hypocritical, puritanical, "undersexed" countries in the world.

Big, bouncy, breasted blondes can serve hamuburgers but a topless woman on the beach will be arrested. What a farce.

I live in Italy.

Answer 10

I think our society makes sex seem like the ultimate experience, the thing we should all strive for. It makes sex out to be the only thing that matters.

I agree that sex is great, but there is so much more than just sex. I don't like the way EVERYTHING is related to sex. I can enjoy things for what they are. I don't need to add sex to them. I'd like to watch a little TV that actually didn't have sex in it for a change. It's so over-done.

Answer 11

No. If everyone was getting laid and had vass amounts of sexual content to view and own without being shunned by the local churches and religious leaders of any faith. We would not be killing each other off at such an alarming rate we would be to busy getting our grove on to fight over land and oil and fake terrorists