Are We Living In A Land Where Sex And Horror Are The New Gods?

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And does it show every indication of worsening?

― Tom, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

But, I saw Sex B.C, it's always been like that!

― jel --, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I remember being totally confused and weirdly thrilled when my 13-year-old self heard Holly Johnson pronouncing thusly on top 40 radio in upstate New York. Keep in mind I hadn't seen the video either, so it was all disconnected weirdness.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

our society is sex obsessed, and not in a good way. I suspect that our children's generation will laugh at us as the generation that went on about sex all the time.

― DV, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

we will be the era which made recordings of millions of empty corridors

― mark s, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

hm, this question rings familiar ... you wouldn't be talking about that hypersexualized environment, would you?

i would think that as long as eyeballs are the arbiter of whether cultural product survives in the marketplace, sex and horror and all their manifestations will be onscreen in at least some form -- they draw people in no matter what; the car-crash aspect still works wonders.

― maura, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I think Frankie were talking about video nasties.

― N., Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Kodanshi=Alex BB3 ????

― Graham, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i would think that as long as eyeballs are the arbiter of whether cultural product survives in the marketplace

ARRGH Maura you haf just hit on something I was musing about in our branch meeting - to what extent can we trust what we see as all we are seeing is light bouncing off different things so REALLY everything is black BLACK LIKE THE DEEPEST DARKEST NIGHT and therefore EVERYTHING IS A LIE - possibly even worse than science! Nothing exists apart from SHAPES! ARGH and what of the polar opposite of snowblindness oh dear me are blind people just seeing THE TRUTH?? And when I see my Wigglytuff as pink he is BLACK and all is BLACK so how come I can never SEE black black black b... bla... *trails off*

*looks about*

What?

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

our branch meeting

Is this a lizard thing?

― Graham, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I do work for the govverment, you know.

Bah why haven't the other people taken up references yet obviously they are not hiring me SIGH. Time to apply for more more more.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

For the media/advertising etc sex is common place and banal. I don't think people as a whole are any more obsessed by it than in the past, though they may be doing it more than at certain points in the past.

I'm just worried that our children will look at stuff like Big Brother and Loaded magazine and assume thats what we were all into.

So whats a good way to sex obsessed if we're currently obsessed in a bad way?

― Winkelmann, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

OMG, Sarah, I'd never thought of it like that. It's pretty dark and scary.

― toraneko, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

So whats a good way to sex obsessed if we're currently obsessed in a bad way?

an old pal of mine once accused Aubrey Beardsley of peddling necrophiliac perversion "of the very worst kind", implying there is a not that bad form of necrophiliac perversion.

whatever about sex, it doesn't really seem like horror is a new god. shame.

― DV, Saturday, 10 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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