MAKE LOVE NOT WAR

By Evan Seinfeld & Tera Patrick on 05/22/2008

EVAN

Why do we find it ok to create movies, television, and video games about killing and the glorification of gratuitous violence? From war movies, to unlikely duos, from police stories on TV, to dramas, mysteries, and horror movies, etc. It seems we are a society obsessed with violence and killing. A question I would love to pose is,"how many of the people who watch this programming will actually kill someone in their lifetime? We portray murder, revenge actual wars, westerns, gangster movies, and the list goes on. Do you think even 1% of the viewers will ever kill someone? Either way, too much violence in our media goes virtually unpunished. Kids watch R rated movies all day with virtual acceptance by parents and all of America. What are we thinking? Good thing that boy is watching that (violent) program, hopefully he will grow up and kill some people just like what he is seeing on the big and little screen. And above all, let's make sure he is not tainted by seeing a breast or a nipple. Give him anything he wants, just make sure he does not get turned on, or even informed. It seems to me that we have kinda gotten it twisted somehow. Ya'think?

I mean, what about sex? The biggest taboo in America is the oddly the most natural and the closest to us. Did anyone ever stop to think that for every person you see, whether on the subway, at the baseball stadium, or at an amusement park, 2 people got naked and had sex? What a ludicrious concept. Let us shelter the world from something that eventually almost ALL of us will experience, again and again, SEX, and glorify something that very very few ever experience, Murder.

It seems our society is schizophrenic since we are teaching children shame over not only the human body, maybe God's greatest gift to man, but excitement and glory for death, destruction and killing. I am not saying that the movies, tv and film of today should be censored in any way. But how bizarre to try and shelter people, men, women, and children from not only who they are, but to send a message to our young people of shame around our primary function on reproduction and the expression of human sexuality.

Now once again, I am not some proponent of pushing anything on your young people, but the internet puts it all at our fingertips, and when young teens are sheltered from what is really out there, they go searching, and what they may find may be so distorted, that our level of shunting and denial can certainly be counter-productive. When a curious teen is so sex starved to see boobs that he is on the web and he actually stumbles upon hardcore adult content that was actually created more for shock or entertainment value, how can he discern what is and what is not healthy sexuality? I don't necessesarily have the answers, but the questions are apparent. Maybe the Europeans and the rest of the world who are less shameful about the human body have something there. Maybe our puritanical society needs to just lighten the fuck up. Maybe our country needs a great big lap dance. Shit, in that case, maybe my wife and I should be running mates on a ticket for the "party" party!

TERA

People need to just get over it. Although I do believe that diversity makes us all special and individuals, I also agree with Bill Maher when he talks about our governments stance on Obscenity. About how the in the serviceman's letter to Bush, he states that he will fight and die for your right to have your own opinion, but most of us aren't trying to make our opinions into the law. We all should have the right to think, feel and ingest what we want, until it affects others. I mean it amazes me that in this day and age, with all we have finally accomplished in everything from technology and communication to civil rights and attempts at peacefully co-existing, that those in power are still trying to make their opinions and hang ups into legistlature. There are 6 foot rules in many states where "dancers" can not come within 6 feet of their clients. We can however sashe right down to Wal-Mart and pick up a shotgun with no background check.

Several of my peers have been brought up on obscenity charges over the years. A McCarthy-ism witch hunt for the most part where the right wing corporate America appearance happy madmen offer our politicians to send their kids to college and support their campaigns if they will take the attention away from tobacco, guns, pharmacutecals, and the needs of our farmers and educators, hungry and homeless to spend our tax dollars on a task force to enforce their opinions on what is and what is not obscene. I am amazed that in this day and age, people can be put on trial, fined and even jailed because of someone else's opinion as to what is obscene.

Recently, I posed for a very edgy mainstream magazine and my photo was pulled from the centerfold because they felt it was too racy...not nude not sexual...just too hot for television, now while I did not agree with the publisher, it is her magazine and her right to publish what she wants. But when the government tries and does make their opinions and the opinions of the religious right who funds their war against whatever, into the Law, I have to pinch myself and make sure that this is the USA in 2008 and not Germany in the late 30's.

Well, I am off in my smart car to go pick up some holistic dog food and take chopper, bandit and mister big time to the park. We are launching a new burlesque show in Vegas in a month and I have dance practice tonight..maybe I will get pulled off the stage for having my boobs too big by the the anti-obscenity task force that our tax dollars are paying for.... No wonder I don't watch the news, because there is no good news at all.

I would do a striptease on the White House lawn as a peace protest, but I don't think anyone would get it... well if Bill Clinton was still in office, I might have gotten invited in. Although I have a lot of political opinions, I am much more interested in issues that I am passionate about. I am working very closely with a breast cancer charity called B.A.B.E, breast awareness benefits everyone. Check out www.babefoundation.org. Issues that matter, not whether or not someone is masturbating. When the government figures out how to tax masturbation, porn will be a welcome industry in this country. I'm going to get my nails done tonight too and then watch Curb Your Enthusiasm on dvd. Later...