http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_wholesome_sex_bomb_soap_opera_7d7j0mUhIBijWjGOc0pGYM
The New York Post article by Maureen Callahan, see link above, calls the TV show -- a wholesome sex-bomb opera --
but is it like those romantic novels they use to sell at supermarket for frustrated house wives that were essentially soft porn? Are viewers looking to tune in to TV shows like this and HBO shows like True Blood that have graphic sexual scenes that get as close to porn as possible because people want to have some sexy experiences in the comfort of their home from the TV set and this is socially acceptable? Who knows, who cares but based on the next paragraph from Callahan's article talking about oral sex and sex toys, one wonders.
"The recent special includes the sisters graphically miming oral sex, making jokes about incest, flinging food at each other and tormenting Kim with sex toys. It’s marketing genius that Kim comes off as the family prude. So successful has this transformation been that, in a recent episode, her mother feared for Kim’s future career upon hearing that she might have made another sex tape."
Kim Kardashian looks like she is coming very close to the too much surgery line that so many actors and actresses, porn stars and entertainers have. There is nothing in the TV show that you would want youngsters to aspire to yet so many tune in. This is not the Brady's Bunch or The Patridge Family. Are they a distraction from our own problems or are we secretly wishing we could have our own reality shows and make the big bucks? X amount want to date the sisters but most tune in for the Sex-Bomb Soap Opera I guess.
Would I like to have my body fine tuned with the help of what MD's have to offer? I think about it but so far I haven't bothered and there has been no reason to.
I remember a scene from the reality TV show on plastic surgeons and porn star Jesse Jane wakes up after having her breasts done and she is in excruciating pain. I have been told that the surgery could make your nipples less sensitive. Have no idea if that is true but I don't want any part of my body made less sensitive do you?
I don't think the Kardashians are sending a message of self acceptance and loving yourself as your are which is what Americans can use a healthy dose of.
I am pro-sex and can't deal with the sexual hypocrisy. TV and ads, even cartoons have "stuff" going on that is down right sexual and even resembling porno and the line between porno and just about everything else gets thinner and thinner yet porno gets the dirty filthy label but plenty of Hollywood's royalty have done a lot that porn stars have done on screen so what is the difference? There is very little difference.
The anti-women hatred is rife in TV including the constant "weighing" and self-rejecting in pursuit of being "air brushed", spewing in the name of religion which I have even heard out on the street...I am not Christian but no wonder Christ preferred Mary Magdalene to those supposed people that kidded themselves they were so good. Most people spewing hate really hate themselves but a target outside themselves gives them relief and women have been the number 1 scapegoat even by other women.
The people that are most filled with anti-sex rhetoric usually have the most sex guilt and shame they can't face and therefore victimize innocent people.
America is really screwed up sexually and just looking at mainstream American films handling of sex versus other countries is proof. America is Puritanical except that the Puritans in reality where far from pure but isn't that always the case?
To get the misogyny out of porno, mainstream TV show, rap music, any kind of music, and that includes consciousness raising including with women who can be the most harsh judges and haters of fellow women -- go figure...
Around the world there is intense violence of the worst kinds directed at women and in America women have it better than others but we still have such a long way to go.
I wrote my piece on Women Porn Stars turned Media Moguls and my guess is these women have been through hell and back but some how they found a way to come out on top...no pun intended. By the way most women on this planet have been through hell and back and had to deal with some kind of violating experience.
Do I watch the Kardashian TV show sometimes? Yes. I like Bruce Jenner and the Mom is such a character but I am far more impressed with Jenna Jameson kicking Bill O'Reilly's butt in the famous Fox News Channel interview. http://evyestanten.blogspot.com/2010/12/jenna-jameson-belladonna-tera-patrick.html
The Kardashian reality show is here to stay and so is porno. The fine line between it all is dissolving rapidly. Let's hope people develop healthy pro-sex attitudes and awareness.
