Re: All you need to run the world is...a bell!

"Dan Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "Women are carefully trained by media to view themselves as inadequate. They
> are taught that other women-through the purchases of clothes, cosmetics,
> food, vocations, avocations, education, etc.-are more desirable and feminine
> than themselves. Her need to constantly reverify her sexual adequacy though
> the purchase of merchandise becomes an overwhelming preoccupation,
> profitable for the merchandisers, but potentially disastrous for the
> individual.
> "North American society has a vested interest in reinforcing an individual's
> failure to achieve sexual maturity. By exploiting unconscious fears, forcing
> them to repress sexual taboos, the media guarantees blind repressed seeking
> for value substitutes through commercial products and consumption. Sexual
> repression, as reinforced by the media, is a most viable marketing
> technology.
> "
> Repressed sexual fear, much like all types of repression, makes humans
> highly vulnerable to subliminal management and control technology. Through
> subliminal appeals and reinforcements of these fears, some consumers can be
> induced into buying almost anything." [MEDIA SEXPLOITATION, Key, 1976]

Howdy Dan
The showing of sex is meant to sell. Of course, it works better when
the people is repressed...

Mixed Messages

'We are led to believe through the incessant references to sex in the
media that we live in a society that condones open sexuality, but when
examined more closely, most of what is shown on TV, in the movies, or
in print is labeled "X-rated" or "for adults only," which implies that
the sexual activities depicted are really not OK. And, although sexual
innuendo sells everything from baby lotion to trucks, the link between
sex and violence is more prevalent than the seductive soft sell.

The number of children sexually abused, the number of teenage
pregnancies, the spread of Aids, the high incidence of rape, and the
millions of people who are unhappy in their sex lives shows that in
our supposedly open and free culture things have really gotten out of
hand. The authorities who shape our attitudes toward Sex attempt to
make us believe that these problems are caused by too much openness
toward sexuality. Just the opposite is true. It is the unwarranted
sexual repression that causes sexual exploitation and aberrant
behavior. Both the stifling of sexuality and the inevitable rebellion
against prudery and ignorance is what puts us at the mercy of our
sexual urges rather than being personally in charge of our sexuality.'

http://innerself.com/Sex_Talk/Sexual_Surrogate.htm