For the assignment, I watched So You Think You Can Dance, CSI-Miami, and CSI-NY.
I really thought So You Think You Can Dance was a pretty clean show, but while watching it for the assignment, I became really aware of how provocative some of the moves and lyrics were. I almost changed the channel during one of the dances. There were at least two different dances that really were quite sexual. The message shown in it was sex is good. Some of the music and lyrics really seem to glorify sex and some of the dancers do really suggestive moves. It also seems to suggest that it’s normative and something teens and young adults should be doing.
In CSI—Miami, there was quite a bit of sex, because a missing person had been to a strip club for a bachelor’s party before he went missing and the plot kept returning to that. It showed scenes in the strip club and kept mentioning lap dances and payment for sex. In CSI—New York, there was also quite a bit of sexual content. There was a party where people rub food all over themselves to become aroused. My roommate and I actually changed the channel during that part because we felt so uncomfortable. The message in both these shows is that sex is normal. It seems to imply that it is expected for men to go to strip clubs before they get married and it is totally normal for both men and women to have sexual experiences outside of marriage. In fact, you don’t even have to know the person that well to be sexual with them. One-night stands are portrayed as normal. The only time sex is portrayed as bad is when a victim was raped before she was killed.
This assignment really did make me more acutely aware of how much sexual content is out there and how careful we need to be about what we consume.
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