The other factor which falsifies this picture is that sex is a rough subject for anyone who has been through puberty's tumultuous advent, and because of this, a large per centage of the people who survived adolescence have some sort of button on the subject -- they get silly about it, or they get embarassed or frozenat the wheel, and so on.

These buttons make for easy electrification, which in turn sells newspapers (or brings viewers) and thus the nmedia learn that if you want lots of eyeballs, you push the sex button loudly and hard. Some do it subtly, some do it extravagantly. A relatively minor scandal thus laid low a good state governor, for example. The magnification of false values brought about by media is one of the key vectors int the cultural distortion.

It is an easy mistake to make to think that what is presented on mass media muSt, in fact, be what one's peers are hearing and thinking, and therefore there is a strong inclination to take on board the attitudes presented, without noticing they are just as hevily biased as any advertisement.


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