The Sexualized Entertainment Industry

The entire entertainment industry has been overtaken by subversives and degenerates. As such, "sex sells" has become the effective motto of the entertainment industry, both in the pursuit of profit and in the covert effort to further the subversion of society. The effect it has on the wider society, on the people who view these things, is bad enough, but there's another uncomfortable side to the story that most of us would rather ignore and that has to do with the way this content is created. Remember, it's not made with CGI or with special effects or computer graphics. When you're watching a passionate or steamy scene, these are real actors performing romantic or sexual acts with one another. A lot of them may have partners and some of them may even be married with children. Yet they are on set making out with their co-stars to be filmed and shown to millions of people. 

Music videos, movies, and TV shows nowadays frequently contain suggestive content. This is yet another reason to not watch these things. Imagine if you were their partner. Or imagine if you were their child even. It must be confusing for these children to see a video of their mother or father being intimate, making out or simulating sex, with a third party on camera. Now, our society has no problem with that because it a lot of places in western supposedly "civilized" countries don't even have age verification for porn websites. This means that children can be exposed to the explicit hard-core pornography simply by clicking on the wrong buttons. The omnipresence of suggestive and explicit content in our media makes so that men commit adultery and fornication with many women without even touching them. Many men even rape women without even touching them, as is not uncommon of a case with porn. A lot of the porn that's online are actually of victims of rape and sex trafficking. When someone pleasures themselves with child porn, most of us rightfully sees them as a pedophile. The same principle applies for those who pleasure themselves with videos of rape, abuse, and trafficking; they become a part of those crimes. 

Again, ask yourself: Would you want to see your parent, child, sibling, or (God-forbid) spouse to be part of a porn video? Unless you are a degenerate pervert, you would quickly say no. Would you want your loved one to be ran through just so that people can be aroused by a dirty video? Only if you are a child of Satan. So if the harmful effects on your mind and your relationships don't deter you from avoiding porn, then this should. Back to the point, however, sex and nudity does not belong in entertainment. Not in theatre, not in films, not in shows, not in music. When you watch these shows and films with profane or obscene content, you are giving a message to the producers that sex really does sell. You're creating a demand for that type of content and telling them to continue filming actors being intimate with one another in order to make that content for you! Some will object, "but they're not actually having sex!" If you were their partner, what difference would that make? If you're talking about sex scenes, they are as close to sex as you can get just short of penetration. They are still mostly naked, they're still passionate kissing, and their bodies are still touching. They are physically interacting in the exact same way couples physically interact. 

It gets worse. While steamy scenes, which can range from passionate kissing to simulated sex, may only last couple minutes at most on screen, the same is not true behind the scenes. The actors are often making out for hours on end behind the scenes. A steamy music video just four minutes long can take 15 hours to film all the make out scenes; this means the actors appearing in the video were making out for 15 hours in total. Even if you account for set up, cuts, re-angling, directing, etc. that's still a lot of making out. It's actually disgusting when you think about it, which is why most of us rather not think about it. We just watch it to enjoy, the same way many of us buy new iPhones every year without a thought about the children exploited in Congo to mine the minerals in our phones, or the same way many of us buy the newest designer bag or clothing without a thought about the children in Bangladesh working in sweatshops to make those products. This apathy and mindless consumption is the mindset that those in big industries count on as they know they are built on immorality. It is also self-perpetuating. Mindless consumption leads to brain rot and even more mindless consumption. The cycle of apathy never ends unless we choose to end it by our own work. 

It's disgusting but how many couples make out for 15 hours in row? How many couples make out for even several hours in a row? I bet you that most couples have not. Yet these are actors, on a set, making out with their co-star, aka their co-worker. Even many of the actors who appear in these scenes may never have made out with their off-screen, real life partner for that long. This would mean that, in a lot of cases, these actors have engaged in longer make out sessions on set with their co-worker than they ever had with their real life partner that they are supposed to be in a committed loving relationship with. This is especially true given how long-distance relationships are often the norm in Hollywood among the unmarried. How do you maintain or build these relationships when you are spending much of your time away from your partner making out with your co-workers? If this was not acting, would any normal sane person look at this and think it's normal? Of course not, most would be very weirded out by it but because of the screens, we're okay with it. The typical movie takes 3-4 months at least to film, while the typical TV show run on for years.

Think about the romances that run on for several seasons or even main characters who are shown engaging in multiple relationships throughout the show. What do you call it when a person who is in a romantic partnership frequently goes and makes out with a third party for months or years on end? Typically, we call that an affair. What you have isn't acting, it's infidelity, it's cheating. By definition, that's what it is. The definition of infidelity is having intimate relations with third parties while being in a committed relationship. That means that sex scenes involving married actors is adultery. The recent scandal between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni highlights the inevitable consequences of a sex-filled entertainment industry. Lively and Baldoni both have their faults in this matter but none of it would happen if the entertainment industry did not think it is normal to have married actors simulate sex with their co-workers on screen. Intimate scenes are uncomfortable to film for a reason and that because everyone intuitively knows that this isn't normal, that this isn't something that should be happening, and they shouldn't be doing it in the first place. 

In theatre, it isn't as bad as in films or shows as in the nudity and sexual content is not as heavily depicted for the simple reason that it's live in front of your eyes and not behind a camera where things can get a little more "creative." Don't get it twisted, however, it's still bad. Obscene stage plays have existed throughout history. After all, sex and nudity in entertainment didn't just appear with the introduction of film. Play writers are less likely to write explicit content than screenwriters. Nevertheless, romantic theatre plays remain very common within the theatre performance world. Of course, attractiveness plays a role in this as well. If you got an actress who is really beautiful, I'd imagine she'd be casted to play in romantic roles if her beauty fits the role. Being pretty also means a lot of guys, including her co-stars, will find her attractive. We know that being beautiful is more likely to make directors decide to cast her in more provocative and intimate roles. This is a common pattern in entertainment; beautiful actresses tend to end up in those roles. The more beautiful of an actress a woman is, the more likely she is to be subtly pressured into being more provocative on stage and/or screen. 

Call me the jealous type all you want but I am not one to be okay with my girlfriend, let alone wife, passionately kissing, making out, or especially simulating sex with another man (though that last one is less common in theatre). It should be self-evident as to why that's the case and I honestly feel bad for anyone in a relationship with an actor or actress who perform in these kinds of scenes. That said, there is a difference between a brief kiss that is relevant to the character's development and a passionate kiss or make out session that's really only there to spice it up for the audience. The former can be uncomfortable, including (often especially) for a real life partner of one of the actors, but the latter clearly crosses a reasonable boundary. 

To top it off, the stage part isn't even the main issue, because kissing your co-star on stage in front of an audience is awkward and not very romantic. It's the rehearsals behind the scenes where things can get a bit more steamy. In professional theatre, it is not uncommon for directors to have their actors rehearse the kissing scenes multiple times before the play to make sure it looks authentic to the audience. Sometimes, the actors may even rehearse it on their own spare time because of pressure to make it as believable as they can for the audience. It's even worse in film. It is typical for directors to have countless retakes and since kissing and other intimate scenes are generally difficult to film, it is quite common for actors to have to kiss dozens or hundreds of times in a row in order to complete that one scene you see on screen. In essence, you are expected to be as intimate with your co-star as you would be with your partner during a cozy, romantic moment of yours. Except there is nothing cozy or romantic about it, unless of course, you are attracted to and/or have chemistry with one another. 

Prior to the sexual revolution, the United States had something called Hays Code which forbade things like sex and nudity from appearing on screen. Hollywood was required to adhere to this code. The Catechism of the Catholic Church also teaches "Civil authorities should prevent the production and distribution of pornographic materials" CCC 2354. Note the Catholic view of pornography is stricter than the secular view. While the secular world only considers graphic explicit sex as pornography, Catholicism defines pornography as any material that depicts sexual behaviour intended to induce arousal in viewers. Hard-core porn is explicit where soft-core porn includes simulated sex and even implicit sex, such as heavy make out scenes in bedrooms. In the 1920s, films made in the United States were profane, but the Catholic Church quickly moved in to curb this. American bishops told congregants to boycott profane films. Catholic clergy and businessmen alike helped write and worked to force Hollywood to abide by the Hays Code. 

One of the things the Hays Code did was restrict kisses in film to three seconds or less. However, directors often circumvented this rule by having consecutive kisses appear in film, with each discrete kiss being three seconds or less as opposed to a continuous make out session like we see in films today. Making out and simulating sex were not permitted under the Hays Code. Such restrictions are much needed in our entertainment industry as so many films and shows have essentially become soft porn. Game of Thrones, Love Island, Riverdale, Pretty Little Liars, Fifty Shades of Grey, Bridgerton, Gossip Girl, and all those typical stuff that appear on television. Sexual content has replaced plot and character development in a lot of modern films and shows. In reality, there is no need for actors to engage in intimacy. A gentle touch on the face or shoulders, a brief kiss, that should be enough. Use implication instead of having the actors make out or simulate sex. Prolonged kissing is unnecessary. We see them slowly move closer, we see their lips touch. That's it. We don't need to see the full motion of them repeatedly opening and closing their mouths or running their hands over one another. 

There is another aspect to the sexualized entertainment industry, one that includes spiritual warfare. Pornography is televangelism for demons. Satan is the prince of the power of the air and what's in the air today? Radio waves, signals, satellite transmissions, and the like. So Satan is using those media tools to propagate this kind of content. In reality, porn videos are evangelizing the message of demons and porn producers serve Satan when they cast actors to perform casual sex acts on camera. Sexual content is inherently spiritual warfare used by the devil against all humanity. The sexualization of our media and society is rooted in the lies of anti-religious atheistic propaganda such as "Religion is responsible for most the wars and evil in the world" and "Secular liberal societies are more free and civilized than religious conservative ones" and "Conservative religion is an oppressive institution" and "Atheists are more empathetic than religious people" and "Having traditional religious values makes you regressive and means you support greed, war, and exploitation" so on and so forth. Many of these are, in turn, rooted in genuine questions about faith: "How can God be good and allow suffering?" "How can God ask us to be grateful when there's so much suffering?" "How can we place our faith and trust in God if he allows for suffering?" "How can we still believe in God and religion when many have used religion as a tool for violence and oppression?" Unfortunately, religious people have often not been very effective at answering these questions, so the devil comes in to twist these questions into anti-faith propaganda to bring people and societies down dark paths. 

Lastly, the sexualization of society has created a trend within feminism where it is seen as possessive and controlling (more about that when we look at communism’s view of relationships) for a man to ask a woman to only be intimate with him because "my body, my choice." The irony of this is much of the dissident left simultaneously supports feminism and Islam. This is despite the fact that many Muslims agree with what we’d call traditional Christian virtues. Things like humility, patience, charity, kindness, temperance, chastity, faith, hope, and justice. The Muslims are no less happy about the impacts of the sexual revolution than Christians are. The left has decided that “Free Palestine” is the standard for humanity, so they literally can't accuse Palestine of being oppressive and patriarchal even though it is a much more conservative and religious society than the West. The left decided that liberal Zionist critiques of the resistance is illegitimate. These are their rules! Palestinian resistance is proof that traditionalism and liberationism within religion are not contradictory. For the record, communism also proves that revolutionism and liberationism are not necessarily compatible.