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…and that’s where it should stay, we don’t deserve dreck like this.
Ack!
We’re fucked.
Another teaspoon of shit on the already enormous pile called “Reality TV”. Will this genre ever die? Probably not as long as voyeurism is a socially accepted personality trait.
I refuse to click!
BBC Three already did this in Britain, and it was actually a quite good program.
With the status sex education has in the US, with its many many teenage pregnancies, and its stupid sex abdication programs — that do not work — a riot.
#4 Al – I agree with your premise but I don’t believe that the intent is for sex edumacation as much for shock and titillation aimed at the closet and overt voyeurs that flock to the crap offerings of “Reality TV”.
Sounds like fun.
#7–ML==quite a detailed opinion for something you haven’t seen. What do you think accounts for that?
So, what you need to balance is the prurient interest off the educational one? Or why not let people watch for whatever their motives are without laying YOUR emotional response on everyone else?
Your approach to sex education would be white lab coats?
Fuck Dr drew
Viva La PoorMan
It’s about time. I am sure the majority of parents don’t want to talk to their kids about it and so many of them end up learning the hard way (by pregnancy, contracting an STD).
Hopefully the next thing will be teaching kid’s about fiscal responsibility and living within their means since we have a nation of dipshits who can’t do that either.
People have kids but don’t want to parent so let MTV keep raising them.
the intention is right, so i don’t have a problem there. i just don’t think a channel that’s supposed to be about the music is the right place to show it (lifetime or discovery, probably).
how long ago did MTV jump the shark, anyway? I think it was when “Singled Out” and “The Real World” started. but that’s just me.
#12 – Jim
Right on, dude. Good idea, but you just KNOW that MTV is going to turn it into a trashy reality-show type steaming pile of dung.
As to jumping the shark, I think you’re right. It was around the time of “The Real World”. Witness the birth of Trash TV(R). In the early eighties, I used to come home, turn on MTV, and let it play in the background as a sort of multi-media radio. You could just listen, or watch too. When they started to inject “content” (if you can call it that) into their programming, I tuned out. I don’t think I’ve watched anything on MTV in about 15 years. And this “Dr. Drew” thing isn’t about to draw me back in.
Darn,
I thought it was a show about, well, having sex with Mom & Dad. What a let down.
#39 Bobbo – I was commenting on the vid presented. I was making a social commentary (opine) of television offerings of late and, yes, my very low opinion thereof.
I wouldn’t dream of prohibiting anyone from watching anything. Like I said, I wish the genre would die of disinterest but because there is a pervasive social acceptance to voyeurism this will probably not happen soon.
Imagine, just imagine, a world with 455 cable tv channels and 3-4-5 of them are aimed at a market comprised of pre-teens and teens interested in teen stuff.
I’m shocked that those with one foot already in the grave wouldn’t be fascinated by such programing. Going out on your first date, learning to drive a car, questions about drinking.
You may not want to go home again, but why deny a home to those who still have one?
#15–ML==you say: “Like I said, I wish the genre would die of disinterest but because there is a pervasive social acceptance to voyeurism this will probably not happen soon.” ///
So what do you want, sex education for teenagers delivered by dinosaurs in white lab coats? SEX AND VOYEURISM sells everything in the American Market–including sex education.
Opinions about society based on one’s own values are irrelevant. BUT to be fair, you wouldn’t ban people watching stuff you don’t like. At least that is a step above.
Didn’t we already have a Sarah Palin SNL thread?
Oh, c’mon guys, this is crapola. I’ve got kids, I teach them what they need to know, they don’t have to depend on South Park, or Jerry Springer to get their info. I don’t think I’ll tell them everywhere I screwed their mom, nor will I expect them to show me around to all the sites they’ve humped Maryanne. There’s a happy medium, and that medium isn’t a reality show. If you think about it, it ain’t that hard to tell your kids where babies come from. If you’re open with your child you can just give them the basics and let them know you’ll answer any questions they have. Having trouble with that? Read a book on it. Don’t depend on Cribs4Sex to start a meaningful conversation with them. I see how they’re TRYING to sell this.. oh, it’s EDUCATIONAL. Right. It’s like any reality show.. fake.
I think it is sad that someone learned about sex on SouthPark, and that someone actually asked if you could get pregnant by anal sex.
I learned about sex in school, like you’re supposed to!
Hey I agree with #4.
If this was on Lifetime or Discovery, teens would not watch it. MTV they will.
This is the stuff teens should know, and they are not getting it from abstinence education programs.
Another excellent source:
http://midwestteensexshow.com/
Well can you get pregnant from anal sex?
If on pull-out a microscopic amount of sperm
smears on the labia and gets inside the vagina?
My jaw just hit the floor
You watch, these people will end up on Maury Povich for paternity tests
Well if you can’t keep it in your pants at least keep it in the family.
The “moralists” have ruined the point of “the talk” which is TO USE CONDOMS! Talking about where you’ve gotten it on, or how you did it, or lists of people is just nasty.
Go forth and attempt not to multiply is good enough.
#17 Bobbo – “Opinions about society based on one’s own values are irrelevant.”
What/how do you base your opinions if not by some personal value system? Are my opinions irrelevant because they are mine or because they don’t happen to be yours?