From the blog post by Pamela Madsen

What we are is fragmented and that is what we are conditioned to be. We are conditioned from the earliest of ages to successfully sever the core of our sexuality, that most basic of human behaviors, from the rest of our lives. As a result, many of us either spend the rest of our adult lives either trying to connect the dots back, or suffering. We are programmed to fear our desires, and to treat them as alien invaders of an other wise “normal life.” We don’t have a real language or real live people to even think about this in a rational context. What we do have is fetishized images….

Whether it’s the vicarious thrill we secretly get when vampires on “True Blood” pull an unsuspecting victim’s hair back, exposing their necks, before taking a long deep drink. Or “Fifty Shades of Grey”, and a twenty-something gorgeous virgin submitting to a complex, wealthy older man with sadist leanings. And then there is the ubiquity of crop welding fashion models, and pubescent rock and roll queens. We can’t look away, because inside of these images are held some of our deepest desires.

All of this simmers in the background of popular culture, while the gatekeepers of sexual information, education and the arbitrators of morales stand guard.

 

Read the entire article by Pamela Madsen at The Huffington Post