One Bad Judgment Call...

I’m twenty-one years young, and through all of my years of being influenced by the media, everything from the Clinton Trials, Jersey Shore, to Facebook they all had one common goal, SEX.

 Now, if you are reading this in hopes to get some steamy sex story then you might as well stop here…

Still with me? Okay cool. I am a male, so this may be a little unusual for a guy to complain about the subject but I like to consider myself a little “unusual.” (I really hate the word creepy.)

Anyway, all the media is trying to do anymore is turn each and every single one of us into nymphomaniacs, to where all we see of each other is nothing but objects of pleasure, not a living, breathing, being in which has a heart and pumps the same blood as each and every other being on this earth. You see it everywhere you go, Hollister, Abercrombie and Fitch; you see it on Billboards, Facebook and Craigslist. You cannot go anywhere without someone trying to influence your judgment on beauty and what makes a person who they are. I know that looks swayed a lot of peoples vote when it came time to elect JFK; I am not saying he was our worst president by any means, but it was an influence to many women voters.

I have noticed over the years that sex complicates relationships, and can cause things to go numb between couples. Things change after sex is involved, whether it’s for better or worse, it depends on how early in the relationship sex became involved.

I am by no means saying “abstinence is the only way to go” I am simply saying that sex makes people lose sight of what their relationship was truly about. It all starts with a single common interest, after time and talking to one another, it blossoms into something stronger then you learn that the two of you had more in common than what was originally the topic of discussion.

A relationship is about, being attracted to the person, mentally, emotionally, and physically, and the whole “I need to express myself physically” excuse is just that, an excuse. Kissing, holding hands, hugging, cuddling, make things that much more meaningful, and intimate.

How do you think these fifty, sixty-year marriages last? Because of sex? No. It’s because of the connection and interests the two of you share, because after decades of being with someone, you really have to worry about one of you breaking a hip during sex.

I guess the message of this all is that we as a society have become blind to what truly makes a person “beautiful.”

Beauty most certainly has nothing to do with a persons whorish appeal of posing half nude on facebook, myspace, xanga, twitter, whatever new spot there is, it has to do with what comes from the heart.

Phillip R. Greaves II

Phillip R Greaves II

IN NO SHAPE, FORM, OR FASHION DO I SUPPORT OR PARTAKE IN PEDOPHILIA. I AM COMPLETELY AGAINST SUCH DISGUSTING ACTS.

I was watching CNN one morning, very early, maybe 7:30 am. Anyway a couple reporters were having a conversation about an author being arressted for a book he wrote. It wasn’t until later in the conversation that I found out what he wrote. Phillip R. Greaves II wrote a book called “The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct.” Now I understand that this material may be inappropriate to have published, or sold for that matter, but who is anyone to punish this man for exercisizing his first amendment right.
I have seen in plenty of bookstores across the nation teaching people how to grow marijuana, I have never seen anyone criminally charged for writing such books, and according to my knowledge, Proposition 19 was turned down, meaning possession and growing of marijuana is still a federal offense. So what makes this mans book so much more dangerous?  I am completely against pedophilia, however I am not against the first amendment. I firmly believe that this man was within his jurisdiction to write this book. Do I agree with what he wrote? No. That just means I will never read it or buy it. Do I disagree with maybe running a background check on this man? No. I think if you are going to write about such subject you need to make sure you are clean and have never committed such offenses. The man was later charged with “Obscenity” in the state of Florida. Which if that is the case then I believe they should charge all of the people in Florida for at one time owning/smoking/growing/trafficking marijuana, because if you are going to do to one you must do to all. Besides that’s what America was founded on, right?
Let’s say a man writes a book about “God” there are plenty of books like that so this shouldn’t be hard. I am not in any shape, form or fashion religious, so do that mean I can press charges against this man for publishing something I don’t believe in? Probably not, because more than three quarters of the world believes in a higher being, and it would be a losing case for me.

I HAVE NEVER READ THIS MANS BOOK, NOR HAVE I EVER SEEN THIS BOOK BEFORE, I DO NOT SUPPORT PEDOPHILIA.

Now who’s to say this book, didn’t have a lead towards someone he knew who was partaking in pedophilia? Well, if it did, we probably won’t know now, it could have helped identify those who we as American citizens might not know who are pedophiles. Now we’ll never catch those in which we believe are committing these crimes.
The first amendment states…
Amendment 1 - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression. 12/15/1791.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Who gave anyone the right to pick and choose what is acceptable and unacceptable, maybe the FCC, but even then all they did was put a label on music, and confine us to what we can and cannot say on radio, television and such…
I have no right telling you what you can and cannot do or say in this nation, so what made this man such a target?