Monday 15 June 2009

Camp Cock or Camp Rock?

I read newspapers to keep my feeble mind current with the going on and current events in the world today. And I came across a story where a school auditorium in New York (via New York Post), planned to entertain the kids with a dvd screening of Jonas Brothers Camp rock. What the kids got was a preview of a 45 second clip of a woman supposedly preforming a sex act while topless. Cue frenzied angry parents whom don't even kiss in front of their children and cluesless and blameless teachers who demand to find the culprit. The audience contained views as young as five to fith grade children, as teachers "frantically told the kids to cover their eyes and not lok at the explicit images. The hapless school prnciple says the media player was moved from his office before the screening, making accessible to all and sundry.

Now I am not for showing kids images that are intended for adults and feel porn has it's place in society. Porn and kids are like oil and water they don't mix. Children don't undestand it and I feel that that is a parents job to explain what's what, when old enough. To be fair a 45 second clip of some broad slapping her minge and what not, while jiggling her tits, is far less distressing than a 90 minute piece a shit featuring the Jonas Brothers. The parents are outraged, I would too, if the school showed my kid a film with the Jonas Brothers. Claims that the kids are upset, well perhaps the young ones, but fith graders? Hardly. As for the Dvd, it is now on a loop playing in the teachers lounge.

According to the Journal of Sociology, research found that 38% of boys and 2% of girls deliberately accessed porn on the net. Stating that two features mirrored the patterns of adults. Still I am sure this whole kafuffle will give the kids something to talk about in the school yard for the next couple of days. i was seven when my dad caught me watching his super 8 porno film in our rec room. He had it on a film projector propped on our pool table in the game room, I was simply told that wasn't for me and when I was old enough I could look at it, and that was that. I remember feeling scared when he caught me cause I hid under the pool table, yet he didn't shame me or tell me off. He just said no and didn't make a fuss about it. Which ito me is a little more healthier way than making porn more taboo. Kids always want to see or do what told not to, plain and simple.



When i was young I remember my parents taking me to the drive-in to see Fritz The Cat, although I enjoyed the cartoon, I do remember my mother covering my eyes and my struggling and wrestling her to see the cartoon. My moher was the family censor, at 14 I asked if I could go to a midnight showing of Tommy and she said "NO", I still went. Why cause she said the movie was about sex, drugs and rock music not pinball and was to young to watch it. Sex, drugs, rick music, pinnball I was fucking sold.

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