Sex tapes used to be taboo. If a celebrity was found to have one, they would deny deny deny until they couldn't deny any longer. You had to be the victim to leave the situation unharmed.
Take Paris Hilton. That girl denied knowing that she was being filmed at the time. But of course, she ended up going along with the whole thing. In interviews, it remained awkward but she went along with it. You know why? She owned it. After the denial, she just decided to accept it and go with it. And anyone who saw it (not that I did....oh this is awkard!) would testify that that girl knew the whole time that it was filming. She was always posing and making sure to give h*** with her good side showing for the camera.
Now, in current news, it is being reported that a Marilyn Monroe sex tape is making the rounds. What do we think about this? Is the sex tape something that has been around for longer than we believe? Pamela and Tommy Lee weren't the first ones?
Why is it that sexuality is so pushed on us but taboo at the same time? We see half-naked women selling Budweiser and Heineken but when a couple makes a sex tape, we can't talk about it? Everyone makes jokes and the couple may endorse it and make money off of it - but interviews are still awkward because no one feels comfortable putting it out there. Now let's talk candidly, we're all sexual beings. We all engage in some sort of sexual activity at least once a day. We think about how someone looks, we have intimate moments with a significant other, or we simply hear about someone else's drunken slutty weekend. Sorry, that was indirect, joking slut-bashing. I apologize.
The truth of the matter is that we all like to think that sex is something that is private. We don't want to talk about our sex life to the general public. We don't want everyone to know what we think about or what we do. But truthfully, we put it out there all the time. Why can't we just have a sex tape and then move on from it? Marilyn Monroe was probably just having fun. Is this really scandalous? No. It's a sex tape. We all have sex. We see it in the movies. We see it on television. We hear it in the hit songs on the radio. Paris Hilton, Pamela Anderson, Kim Kardashian - they all have one! We all have fun in the bedroom. What's the problem?
We all have opinions on it. The question is why do we make it so taboo but at the same time so relevant? Is it possible that religion plays more of a role in politics than we like to believe? I personally think that the morals religion helped to shape for this country many years ago are still being used today. Church and state are not separate, people. Sure, children shouldn't hear about this so early. So parents, don't let them watch adult television? Children should be watching Barney, not Jay Leno or TRL. Let's all chill out and talk freely. It's really not that bad.
In conclusion, sex tapes are just fun and we should all just keep our judgment to ourselves. If people heard about what you do in bed, they would judge you too. :]
Signing off,
G
1 comment:
Great commentary on sex tapes. I too was quite interested in the Monroe tape. First, I was fascinated by the VERY high price that someone was willing to pay for this piece of hollywood history. Then I got to thinking, maybe there is something more to the idea of immortalizing one's sexual prime.
Celebrity couples may be making a quick buck or gaining a bit of notoriety out of these movies, but might they be fighting against hegemony?
Perhaps people, women especially, are able to say, hey I am sexual and I am proud of it. And perhaps others can say she's sexual so maybe I can be too. Does the trend of homemade videos suggest something about shifts in cultural norms?
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