The Comeback of Taboo !

This week a ‘remarkable’ outcome of a question survey was great news in The Netherlands. On all popular magazines, television and radio it was stunning news with a universal statement: “youth are watching porn, massively!”. Because in the results of the survey 83% of the participants in the age of 12 to 24 said they had watched porn previously, of which the absolute majority for FREE, through the internet…

At the same time there is a lot of commotion about a movie called ‘Deep Throat’, a porn movie from the eighties, which should be broadcasted today by state television. Two third of the participants from the same survey said they will not have a problem with that, and a small amount of that said they are going to watch it as well ('oh No! Save our children!?').

It seems a lot of commotion about nothing, but is this nothing? Today a show called ‘EenVandaag’ (‘OneToday’) will be interviewing youngsters about how they see the present porn, like mtv video clips and if this changes their sexual experience. Writers will also give their opinion of this so called ‘Pornification of the Society’.

But in my opinion this kind of development is already playing longer than we know!

And this development we spoke past week with other students. In the same discussion about the world in 2050 (see previous post) a statement was made, as in an open society taboo like Sexual behavior and content. The Problem, or so called Remarkable thing we noticed is that: The current development is that explicit sexual content gets more open and visible for everybody. In our group we discussed and shared the same opinion that this would be more of a taboo in the future; as in that it gets more private again.

We came to a conclusion that the current development would be parabolic, as the time continues a this so called ‘taboo’ would have a variety as in the acceptance within a society as seen in the picture above.