The past 50 years have been ordained with numerous social triumphs: equal rights, civil rights, women's rights, suffrage, peace, and counterculture. Art and science, Andy Warhol, and a man on the moon! The list goes on. In short, this has been one of the most rapidly evolving half-centuries in the history of our nation. A social period flaunted by our government, and one that parents brag to their children about, coated with a completely different perspective. And those children spend hours thumb tacking various idols of these times to their dorm room wall, feeling all the more superior to their classmates within their enlightened living quarters.
They sure were some hoppin' decades. however, one particular strand of this social revolution is rarely discussed by the government. Parents, too, tend to shy away from this topic when captivating their kiddies with stories from their nostalgic library. A subtle, yet augmenting reverberation from the media, reflecting the cries of a previously suppressed youth and accelerating those impassioned acclamations of a new, dependent generation. Sex.
The ongoing sexual revolution may have had a jumpstart in the 60's and 70's, but the abuse of this sexual liberation in the media greatly precipitated throughout the latter 80's, 90's. Now, in the 21st century, the media's (ads, corporations, big business) garish exploitation of it's own imposed addiction upon our youth has become the cause of many complications with teenagers and young adults. Girls and women being portrayed as sex items, superficial dependency, teenage pregnancies, depression and drug abuse all stem from the root that is our hyper-sexualized culture; suffocating us with our own hot, naked bodies.
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