Sex and Manipulation

Sex and the City is not only a movie, but a long time running television series. One writer is sick about how preteen and teen girls are being used an manipulated by the fake friends that write and publish teen media. Rebecca Hagelin writes, that the May issue of Seventeen magazine is probably the sickest of all the issues, complete with an extra dose of duplicity and hypocrisy.

 

On the cover of Seventeen is featured the "star" one of the most trash television programs for teenagers today - "The Secret Life Of The American Teenager" a program filled with teen sex. One has to ask why is he featured? We all know the answer, because money talks. Teenage girls will buy the magazine to find out why starlet Shailene Woodley isn't the girl you think she is. The article gushes about how 18 yr. old Shai and her boyfriend pack their bags and move to New York, where they shack up. In the same edition, another article discusses how television shows, like the Secret Life Of The American Teenager, can trick girls into "getting pregnant".

 

The magazine pretends to criticize such programs. However, it has an underlying agenda. It portrays hooking up as normal behavior; runs ads that tells girls how to get guys to touch their legs, and frequently promotes lesbianism.

 

Our young people are immersed in a culture that glorifies reckless illicit sexual behavior. The television programs, every book they read, advertisements, magazines and drug companies tell our kids they want to care for them, while in essence they are using them as pawns for profit, at the expense of their bodies, minds and souls. Perhaps our young people need to know that there will be consequences to their actions and that mother nature never forgives.  

 

Where are the parents? It's time that adults confront Seventeen magazine and the trashy shows like Gossip Girls and the Secret Life Of The American Teenager, pick up the magazine Glamour and Cosmopolitan and see that their daughters and friends are being abused by the media.

 

Hagelin, in her article, says "The message that is being drilled into their psyches is painfully obvious: Forget about your intelligence, your goodness, your kindness, your grace or your moral integrity - the way to get ahead in the world, is by using your sexual power."

 

Parents, it's time to let your daughters know, they're being manipulated. Your daughters deserve better.