Sick of SMUT!!!!

I’m sick of pathetic, uncreative, sad excuse for a laugh, smut jokes. I think that it has to be just about the lowest form of wit. I may even go so far as to say that it is even lower than sarcasm, which is generally regarded as the lowest form of wit.

Wit in smut? What wit?? Oh wow… you’re so witty… you can use smutty innuendo to create a double meaning to that comment… oh ha ha ha… that’s so funny and witty… there’s no wit there… it’s only “witty” because your mind is so polluted with such smut filled thoughts that you automatically think of some sexually orientated allusion and connotation to the comment… That’s not wit! That’s sad, pathetic and disgusting!! And what’s more, it doesn’t help the others around you who haven’t got their head in the gutter like you do! It only serves to drag them down there with you!!!

I respect someone who has a quick mind and who can conjure up a witty remark or comment, one that helps shed a different light on a subject… helping to expand one’s mind… even if it’s a lame joke…

“Nothing outside a man can make him 'unclean' by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him 'unclean.'” – Mark 7:15

But smutty comments… how are they supposed to benefit me?

I’m also quite perturbed and disgusted by the kind of competitions that they’ve been running on radio most recently. In particular Nova 96.9 with “phone sex” and the driving home nude thing…

Phone sex as a radio game is such a simple concept… just call up and guess the gender of the next 3 callers… 50-50 odds… and a very entertaining game to listen to… but do they have to call it “phone sex”???!!!

With a name like “phone sex”, of course they have to ham it up and exploit all the sexual innuendo and connotations associated with the phrase… you get the DJ’s making comments like “call me now, if you want to have phone sex with me…” etc etc… *CRINGE FACTOR!!!!!*

I find it most pathetic they people lack the creative juices to come up with something more wholesome, and have to resort to such smutty “jokes” to entertain their audience. What I’m also most annoyed and disgusted by is that this radio “game” is played throughout the day, from morning till late arvo… while innocent kids are listening!!! This only serves to corrupt and degrade their minds, and worse still cheapen their image and perspective on sex!

The other “game” I find most disgusting is this new one, where they get someone to drive home from work naked for a measly $200!!! As a society have we become so obsessed with the pursuit of money, that we’re willing to take our clothes off just for a couple of hundred bucks??!! Have people got no self-respect???

Just because it’s in the privacy of their own cars??? What bull! Besides isn’t it supposed to be illegal??? ie. Indecent exposure??? Hello???!!!!

Over the last 12 months, I’ve been increasingly disturbed at how our society is becoming more and more “tolerant” of such smut, and degrading and defiling things. It’s not like it’s happened over night. Of course not… It’s all a slow and progressive process of pulling the wool over our eyes… If things like this had happened overnight, there would’ve been an outcry! But slowly over time, society and media have been slowly making us more and more unjaded and unfazed by such things by the slow, gradual progression of introducing such smut into our homes via TV, movie and print media.

We’re like frogs in a pot of boiling water. Put a frog into a pot of boiling water and it will jump out immediately to get away from the heat. But put it in a pot of tap water and slowly turn the heat up, and you can boil a frog to death. This is exactly what our society and we are like! We’re so immersed in this pot of filth that we are oblivious to the fact that its getting filthier and filthier and hotter and hotter… so much so that we don’t even batter our eyes at such suggestive issues and things screened on shows like “The OC”, “Sex and the City” and the like… and songs like “Nasty Girl” by Nitty and “Candy Shop” by 50 cent, don’t even make us cringe and recoil in distaste anymore…

“Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts… Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.” – Romans 1:24-26 & 28

This is the world we live in, and I should not be surprised by how our society is descending into the doldrums of scum and crap. But it is a massive challenge to avoid and keep one’s mind from falling and descending with the rest of society.

These are two verses that I need to keep reflecting and meditating on.

“Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” – Romans 12:2

“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” – Phil 4:8