Because it says so in the movies…
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]
October 5th, 2005 at 12:17 am
std’s have been around before movies came about. these people are just bored.
October 5th, 2005 at 1:13 am
these stuff are getting on my nerves nowadays!
a lot of lebanese kids watched live violence, none of them bombed schools or shot their friends… right? then why is it that when western kids play video games or watch movies that include violence they start getting violent? its crap. i played mortal kombat when i was 12 and i didnt kill anyone!
i watched movies such as james bond and i still knew about std’s and safe sex and the other stuff!
i dont get why make a big deal of nonsense! what was wrong with the way we were raised, or the way our parents were raised?
let is be!
October 5th, 2005 at 1:14 am
*let us be!
October 5th, 2005 at 1:23 am
let is be… ah yes, that other beatles hit, overshadowed by it’s more famous (and grammatically correct) cousin
Great to have you back here, ram!
To be honest, though, janjoon, only by playing mortal kombat did I realise that a tiny asian guy could, theoretically, beat a four-armed monster by using fireballs from afar! God knows what I would have done had I ran into one of them creatures on my way home from zanzibar.
October 5th, 2005 at 12:35 pm
hmm Zanzibar…I like that bar.
October 5th, 2005 at 3:17 pm
what ?
You mean superman doesn’t exist ?!??!?!???
You mean Santa is not real?
WHAT ???!!!!
OH MY GODDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!