According to the Human Decency Foundation, the popular teenage show, Glee, featured an episode in which a young girl voluntarily loses her virginity. She is the only one in her group that has abstained and, unfortunately, listens to the advice of her peer group. In fact, according to the on-line article:
"In this episode one student, shocked to find out two of his classmates are still virgins, convinces them that losing their virginity will make them better performers in the school musical, stating: "How do you expect to convey the human experience to an audience when you haven’t even opened yourself up to (the) most basic and primal one?"
While eating my lunch, earlier this week, I was surfing the television channels and came across one about brides selecting their wedding dresses for the big day. One bride is there for her first fitting and confides to her friends that she hopes the next four months won’t make a big difference in her figure . . . because she is pregnant. The show later shows the bride and groom making the announcement at the wedding reception. Everyone is thrilled.
The subject of our overly sexual world came up at one of our pastor’s classes on Faith and Religion. He sadly said that sex is now something people give to their friends rather than saving it for someone they truly love.
The public school sector and the government are always looking to stem the increase in sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancy. I think that if these factions promoted morality in the name of human self-respect, those numbers might go down. Instead, too many high schools provide child care for teen moms. There is a popular show on television that actually makes being a teen mom not quite that bad. And, Planned Parenthood is always there to dispose of unwanted babies that are the result of ‘friendship’.
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