If Moses, after spending 40 days and nights with the Almighty, had come down from Mount Sinai today bearing two tablets with the Ten Commandments, he would have been hard pressed to find a publisher. The pornographic movie business rakes in yearly more than Hollywood ($12 billion vs. $10 billion). ‘Zoo,’ not a pornographic movie, according to director Robinson Devor, pushes the envelope of today’s latest norms by breaking down ‘the last taboo on the boundary of something comprehensible.’ It’s sex between men and animals. ‘Spring Awakening’ is Broadway’s latest hit musical, hailed by reviewers as ‘tastefully erotic’ and ‘a straight shot of eroticism.’ Its sex scenes range from masturbation and sadomasochism to abortion, homosexuality and abuse. Television and mobile phones have pornified the Western world’s popular culture at an alarming rate, making sex more violent. An Internet search for ‘sex + toy + torture’ yielded results by the thousands. Beginning in the raunchy, anything-goes 1960s, the Ten Commandments quickly became multiple choice. Coveting something that belongs to another is now de rigueur. ‘Filthy Lucre for Dummies’ would be a […]
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
Billionaire Boom
Author: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE
Source: The Washington Times
Publication Date: 30-Jan-07
Link: Billionaire Boom
Source: The Washington Times
Publication Date: 30-Jan-07
Link: Billionaire Boom
Stephan: