The cover is provocative enough to bring up other issues, too.
Of course, conservative types would go nuts, but it brings up interesting psychological issues. About the artificialness of adolescence in our culture, etc.. Not to mention the obsession we have with pedophilia...all one has to do is turn on Fox News and see how we have elevated the taboo to the level of rape and murder. I recently watched Bill O'Reilly shout down the wife of a convicted sex-offender (such cute language we have for it, too) who dared ot suggest that we need to do a better job legally of knowing the difference between levels of offense.
Kinsey would note that the human animal is like any other animal in biological behavior and that it is culture and society that restricts and defines convention. And one has to ask about said culture where it is fine for young-looking girls to appear in slinky jeans to sell something but sick in the mind of the audience to extend said advertising into speaking the fact that as sexual beings we lust after youth, generally, as the most fit and attractive. But it gets into a whole host of other issues in which our society is downright puritan still about our own nature.
colluvies vitiorum...I suppose the key to morality is knowing the difference between the beauty of the degraded human condition and what we must leave behind to elevate ourselves above nature. It is a fine line and one can error on either side too easily.
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Of course, conservative types would go nuts, but it brings up interesting psychological issues. About the artificialness of adolescence in our culture, etc.. Not to mention the obsession we have with pedophilia...all one has to do is turn on Fox News and see how we have elevated the taboo to the level of rape and murder. I recently watched Bill O'Reilly shout down the wife of a convicted sex-offender (such cute language we have for it, too) who dared ot suggest that we need to do a better job legally of knowing the difference between levels of offense.
Kinsey would note that the human animal is like any other animal in biological behavior and that it is culture and society that restricts and defines convention. And one has to ask about said culture where it is fine for young-looking girls to appear in slinky jeans to sell something but sick in the mind of the audience to extend said advertising into speaking the fact that as sexual beings we lust after youth, generally, as the most fit and attractive. But it gets into a whole host of other issues in which our society is downright puritan still about our own nature.
colluvies vitiorum...I suppose the key to morality is knowing the difference between the beauty of the degraded human condition and what we must leave behind to elevate ourselves above nature. It is a fine line and one can error on either side too easily.