Sometimes I wonder if actors and actresses have gone too far. Nowadays it is questionable if these highly paid entertainers are flashing just a bit too much flesh for the mainstream. I can understand a starlet who is looking for more publicity, wanting to show off her expensive breast implants or her highly toned, gym trained body, but where is the line between “mainstream” and “pornography”?
Not too long ago I was watching a pretty good movie, it started out as a comedy, decent acting with some hilarious scenes and then it turned into porn for about ten minutes. Now I'm no prude and in fact have no objections to pornography as long as the participants are consenting adults that practice and promote safe sex. However; when the warning for a movie mentions "scenes containing sexuality" I certainly don't expect to see the pages and positions from "joys of sex" being acted out on the screen.
It seems as if the red carpet affairs - you know, the ones that the gossip magazines have a "best" and "worst dressed" category, and should have a "least dressed" class - are showing more and more skin. Of course the men are well covered, but the ladies are more frequently letting most of it hang out for literally all of the world to see, which makes it increasingly difficult to take them seriously on or off the big screen.
It is kind of sad; the message that is being sent out to all the young adoring fans - especially the girls, but not excluding the boys - that we need to bare it to get attention or be attractive to the opposite sex, when it simply is not true.
Sexuality is only one aspect of our beautiful selves and I am sure that the “shiny” people in La La Land have other wonderful attributes, (yes I am aware that sex sells), that could be "over - exposed" and spotlighted a bit more often, to take the focus off of the body, as well, to set an example for those highly impressionable youngsters who are still trying to find their place in this media saturated society. Before the wholesome, girl next door turns into a glamorous, sex goddess and becomes pregnant at an early age or ends up with a life threatening sexually transmitted disease.
There is a time and a place for blatant sexuality, but, in this day and age, with all the issues society in general is facing, perhaps those influential, trendsetting, individuals could focus more on family values, decorum and high moral behaviour instead of who has the most toned arms, the best implants or who can get away with the least amount of material in her dress.
