Sex/Sex

Short Bus turns the subject of sex in movies on top of its head.  It was a fun movie to watch.  I mean, it involved sex so if had to be fun.  It was extremely straightforward with its explicit subject matter.  I liked that it was because it pushes the viewer outside of their comfort zone and makes them face sex for what it is.  We live in a culture that treats sex as something to be ashamed of.  Yet this culture also uses sex to sell anything and everything from music, movies, and anything in between.  So many mix signals are sent from our societies use and views on sex that it can pollute what it really is, and that is that it is just sex.  It can be done for different reasons between people, but the important thing is that it is a huge part of what makes us human.  It something that shapes our identities, makes or breaks our relationships, and is sometimes just done for fun.

We brought this up in class, but it is always funny to think how we can show extreme violence in movies and video games, but when it comes to sex it is a no-no.  Sometime I wonder if the reason for so much excess violence comes from this suppression of sex.  It makes sense, I know I am a lot more aggravated when I am haven't gotten laid.  Maybe it is the same idea on a larger deeper scale.  Religion and government have created the death of logic.  This has killed the proper way of how we should handle sex.  We make ourselves blind with these orders and rules, than it makes us miss the little steps that build up to the big ones.  It all gets so embedded into us that we start to neglect our own human nature.  Our nature is something we need to learn to control and master, not suppress.