Why do we give celebrities a free pass?

After reading this article, it is really making my wonder why we let celebrities use sex to sell themselves and their work.  Why are we so hypocritical that we are going to hold a Senator or a CEO accountable for a lapse of judgment, but at the same time give our children money to go see a crappy Colin Farrell movie?

Obviously, we expect our leaders to be held to a higher standard when it comes to sex and drugs, but should we be giving a free pass to everyone else?  Now I have no problem with people making their own sex tapes, but lets face it if you make a sex tape and you’re a celebrity, you are always going to damn well know where that tape is at all times.  For us to believe these tapes just happen to “leak out” would be stupid.  They’re doing for promotion only and for whatever the reason we actually buy into this.  We’re supposed to be an educated nation yet at the same time we let this double standard exist.   Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like this double standard is going to end anytime soon.  The more we mix the porn industry into mainstream media the more this gap is going to grow.  When Jenna Jamison is doing print ads for mp3 players, why would we have a problem with a celebrity sex tape?  Having society keep porn in a dark corner where nobody addresses it isn’t the best idea, but to glorify it and use it for self promotion isn’t what’s best for society either.   

It’s not all porn

 

After give it much though and writing a few possible entries I have completely given up on how to define porn.  To add to what some other people have started to say, my best guess would have to be that society deems what is pornographic and what isn’t, in relation to what is happening in their present day and age.  It’s easy to say that some one engaging in sex on film is porn and that two people kissing definitely isn’t porn.  However to say that would be completely wrong.  Yes, today in 2006, kissing on film isn’t a big deal, but in the early 1900’s it was.  In 70 or more years, people might look back and say that what we consider porn is no big deal.      Part of the problem is that we use the word “porn” too loosely now.  Everything society sees as offensive or tasteless is automatically called porn.  Maybe if we stopped calling every advertisement with scantily clad females or males porn we wouldn’t be searching so hard to actually define what the word means.  We have become obsessed with titling everything we can.  It is now to the point to labeling art work from hundreds of years ago as porn.  Sometimes we forget other than eating, the most basic instinct man (and woman), has is to have sex. Throughout history, pictures and sculptures of naked people and sexual acts were made to express these feelings.  When those pieces of work were being made they probably weren’t considered porn, but for some reason today, they might be.  There is never going to be a clear cut definition of what porn is and what porn isn’t, but the more we call every offensive piece of work by that name it’s going to be harder and harder to define.

Internet Porn Class?…. How fitting

I’m currently a senior at UB and was just taking this course to fill my free elective, but now I’m interested in what this course really has to offer.   

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