Friday, September 26, 2008
The trend is part of a cultural push to normalize homosexuality and redefine how young people think about sex
Val J. Peter
There are three steps pushing girls into same sex experimentation:
1.The first step is desensitization. Show young girls examples of role models in same sex experimentation. The first example is the MTV awards in 2003. Half way through, pop diva, Madonna, locked lips with teen icon, Brittney Spears. It was intended to shock and titillate and it worked.
For weeks afterwards it was shown on morning talk shows, evening noon casts and every tabloid in the grocery store. It inspired teenage girls desperately seeking to be cool, desired and loved to follow after it. That is desensitization.
It was a huge part of the media and the culture’s effort to make the abnormal normal and to get things to think it’s just a normal thing.
It’s called associative conditioning. Here are some more examples:
Katy Perry’s song “I Kissed a Girl” has been the No. 1 download of the summer of 2008. It includes lyrics such as “It felt so wrong, it felt so right, Don’t mean I’m in love tonight.” Yes, No. 1 on Billboard’s singles chart for seven weeks.
Go into any GapBody store. These stores sell underwear and sleepwear popular with teens. They have pictures of young women in underwear cavorting with each other lining the store walls.
On MTV’s reality/dating show, “A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila,” 16 men and 16 women attempt to seduce bisexual model and MySpace is Tila Tequila. This reality dating show is very popular with young girls.
Woddy Allen’s film, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” features a make-out session between actresses Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson.
Or attend a local high school dance, you will see girls dancing provocatively with other girls.
2.Step Two is exaction pricing also called jamming. If someone stands up to protest and says “this is the pornography industry played out in real life”, they are called a prude, a snot and hateful of girls. Ministers and priests are afraid to speak up because they won’t be popular with kids. You exact a price from anyone who stands up and tells the truth that this is hurting young girls most of whom are secretly ashamed of being forced into this. Many suffer low grade depression and feel forced to do what they don’t want to do.
In some ways it’s not about being gay. It’s about doing what everyone else is doing. These young girls are responding to peer pressure and, if we point that out to them, we are shouted to and they exact a price from us.
When someone says these girls are imitating what pornography says is arousing, that person is shouted down. When someone says the culture says it is cool and sophisticated to experiment in a homosexual way, they are made to look like prudes.
But the media and the culture won’t tell our young girls just how damaging this “desensitization” and this “experimenting” is.
When you force girls to experiment like this with peer pressure, you throw everything in their life off balance. Young girls start questioning their sexual identity in ways they never would have before. You see anxiety, depression, inability to enter into healthy friendships with boys. Some girls in college say they don’t know how they’re going to explain to their future husbands that they lost their virginity to a woman. And many struggle to believe God will forgive them. That’s pretty devastating and, yet if we say that, we are jammed.
3.The third stage is conversion when we are forced by fear to just shut up and don’t say anything and, yet, these girls so desperately need to hear the truth about who God made them to be and what authentic love is. The culture is lying to them and we can’t stand idly by and let that happen.Girl
Val J. Peter
There are three steps pushing girls into same sex experimentation:
1.The first step is desensitization. Show young girls examples of role models in same sex experimentation. The first example is the MTV awards in 2003. Half way through, pop diva, Madonna, locked lips with teen icon, Brittney Spears. It was intended to shock and titillate and it worked.
For weeks afterwards it was shown on morning talk shows, evening noon casts and every tabloid in the grocery store. It inspired teenage girls desperately seeking to be cool, desired and loved to follow after it. That is desensitization.
It was a huge part of the media and the culture’s effort to make the abnormal normal and to get things to think it’s just a normal thing.
It’s called associative conditioning. Here are some more examples:
Katy Perry’s song “I Kissed a Girl” has been the No. 1 download of the summer of 2008. It includes lyrics such as “It felt so wrong, it felt so right, Don’t mean I’m in love tonight.” Yes, No. 1 on Billboard’s singles chart for seven weeks.
Go into any GapBody store. These stores sell underwear and sleepwear popular with teens. They have pictures of young women in underwear cavorting with each other lining the store walls.
On MTV’s reality/dating show, “A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila,” 16 men and 16 women attempt to seduce bisexual model and MySpace is Tila Tequila. This reality dating show is very popular with young girls.
Woddy Allen’s film, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” features a make-out session between actresses Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson.
Or attend a local high school dance, you will see girls dancing provocatively with other girls.
2.Step Two is exaction pricing also called jamming. If someone stands up to protest and says “this is the pornography industry played out in real life”, they are called a prude, a snot and hateful of girls. Ministers and priests are afraid to speak up because they won’t be popular with kids. You exact a price from anyone who stands up and tells the truth that this is hurting young girls most of whom are secretly ashamed of being forced into this. Many suffer low grade depression and feel forced to do what they don’t want to do.
In some ways it’s not about being gay. It’s about doing what everyone else is doing. These young girls are responding to peer pressure and, if we point that out to them, we are shouted to and they exact a price from us.
When someone says these girls are imitating what pornography says is arousing, that person is shouted down. When someone says the culture says it is cool and sophisticated to experiment in a homosexual way, they are made to look like prudes.
But the media and the culture won’t tell our young girls just how damaging this “desensitization” and this “experimenting” is.
When you force girls to experiment like this with peer pressure, you throw everything in their life off balance. Young girls start questioning their sexual identity in ways they never would have before. You see anxiety, depression, inability to enter into healthy friendships with boys. Some girls in college say they don’t know how they’re going to explain to their future husbands that they lost their virginity to a woman. And many struggle to believe God will forgive them. That’s pretty devastating and, yet if we say that, we are jammed.
3.The third stage is conversion when we are forced by fear to just shut up and don’t say anything and, yet, these girls so desperately need to hear the truth about who God made them to be and what authentic love is. The culture is lying to them and we can’t stand idly by and let that happen.Girl
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