Apparently, hollywood is to blame for the rise in STD and unwanted pregnancies. Hollywood movies seem to promote unsafe sex without warning/mentioning the consequences. The article specifically mentions James Bond and Basic Instict. I mean… COME ON!

They wouldn’t be called movies otherwise… they would be called 80-million-dollar-awareness clips. I can just picture it. James Bond sipping on an alcohol-free martini and watching his out-of-wedlock children, in between stopping a plot to evaporate the pacific ocean, and another to blow up uranus. Then talking about how he regrets sleeping with every single sex-bomb from Ursula Andress to Halle Berry. I would do that. The world needs to know.

Or, Sharon Stone, moving from the standard missionary to a more entertaining tribadism, pausing and telling us all how, if we concentrate on that infamous split second where she crosses her legs we could see the herpes she contracted from unsafe sex. (I should mention that she was being interrogated for stabbing numerous men with icepicks… but that’s not important… murder isn’t bad, sex is)

Yes, there should be disclaimers all over the movies. People are stupid. Superman should warn us not to try to fly before he takes off, and after he lands. For that matter, Santa should tell everyone he’s not real, and Jesus should note that turning 5 fish into 5000 was a special effect, and that we shouldn’t try to walk on water, or crucify people, because, in real life, they DO die.

I’m all worked up, damn it.

[Edit: BBC is also running this story... must be a slow news day, no hurricanes or fuckheads blowing themselves up]

Yesterday evening, while taking the subway home, me and M. were approached by a guy. He praised the lord Jesus Christ at the wonder of someone who’d never been to the US speaking English. He was a mormon missionary, serving for two years abroad (as do a lot of mormons, apparently). M. got sick of it after a short while, I played along. We got to talking, I feigned interest, and I saw his face light up, he had gotten through to a sinner! I smilingly agreed to meet him sometime in the coming two weeks.

The jungle that is Berlin is no place for a poor, innocent, white kid from Utah. He has NO idea what he’s gotten himself into.

I think I will take all these people up on their offers from now on. Hating religion is unhealthy, I must face it’s representatives one by one.