One of tonight’s Family Feud challenges was this: “Name something you would do immediately after divorce.” Quickly hitting the buzzer, one family member shouted out, “Have a threesome!” After the typical awkward laughter, we found that “survey said” it was the Number Two answer.
With the passage of time, fewer people now have a healthy perspective on this. Many young people have known only a porn-addicted society in their lives. Yet, it seems to many like yesterday that to say “have a threesome” on TV would have gotten you in serious trouble with the FCC or shunned by society. Or both.
But then came the pill, and its consequent “sexual revolution”.
Soon after the popularization of contraception, a “crossing the Rubicon” moment occurred in American culture. For the first time ever sex outside of marriage became “normalized” on television and in the movies. The sacredness of love and sex became recreation and humor, almost overnight.
It began in the late 1970s and early 80s, to the shock of the WWII generation, with shows like Soap and Beverly Hills 90210, and movies like Last Tango in Paris and Saturday Night Fever. After that, the jokes of virtually all sitcoms centered around fornication. ‘Friends’ and ‘Two and a Half Men’ are prime examples. Not to be outdone by their male counterparts, women too were led into the comedic swamp, illustrated by shows like ‘Sex and the City’ and ‘Two Broke Girls.’ Ironically, with the exception of ‘The Cosby Show’, the breakdown of the family and the moral chaos that ensued became requisite to display on the small and big screen as both realistic and funny.
While the sheep were following their demonic shepherd, there was still an undercurrent of resistance to the cultural left that one could find in the entertainment world that respected the natural order and upheld what had come to be known as ‘family values’. However, when Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins and Maria von Trapp!) decided to join the crowd by baring her breasts on ‘S.O.B.’, and Disney fell to the lucrative tug of the homosexual lobby, that undercurrent shrank rather quickly. Now that ‘Family Feud’ has apparently conceded to the world, I’m not sure if there is anywhere in the entertainment media that hasn’t been orchestrated by the ideology of the left. The entertainment industry’s progressive dive into the cultural sewer of mediocrity, hedonism, and nihilism came rapidly and without much of a fight. Very sad.
