Of sex and violence...

Now that got you to read it didn't it!

Seriously though two topics on my mind today. One is sex (never further than 30 seconds away from any males mind) and the other is violence or as it would be pointless violence. First the sex and then the violence (I find it more rewarding that way :)).

Of sex:

When I think how steeped our culture is in this I find it amazing how little we seem to understand it. Now in my own culture the Victorian's went to extremes to avoid the subject; at least we have got over that one. Or have we? Are we in the process of negating it as a serious subject by creating a smoke screen of deliberate provocation. In other words is western culture making passive voyeur's of us all? It is possible, and in that process we have so much to lose. Make sex another commodity and you deny its inherent importance to us all. For sex without emotion is just masturbation by another name.

Of course masturbation gives us control, just as the pornographic video or still does; but it does not give us communication - it does not teach us humanity. There are things which can not and should not be detached from sex with others, the communication and the basic emotion it involves. To do this risks the loss of something very real; something that should, be tangible and felt by us all. For in this respect we are the same.

On violence:

London has just seen a spate of pointless deaths of young men stabbed on its streets. Six in the last week and now the copy cats are breaking out in other Cities. Why? Well maybe just maybe we have made voyeurs of those young men. A generation of kids who have no guidance except for the input they get, the commodity they respect. That respect is given to drugs, power and a culture of live fast, die young. How can this have happened? We stopped caring; we walked by on the other side of the street. We had the attitude that 'Its not my problem' - for so long that suddenly it is. We stopped communicating as parents, mentors and fellow humans.

They were lost causes, social issues, junkies - whatever they weren't us. But they were, they are and if we deny that we deny it at our peril. Or at someone else's.

Margaret Thatcher was once famous for saying "There is no such thing as society." It would be a real shame if we, the human race proved her right. But I hope we won't I hope we will prove eventually that all humans are fundamentally the same.