Porn Generation by Ben Shapiro

Author:Ben Shapiro
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2013-02-04T05:00:00+00:00

The sitcoms

Last year, the most famous television show of the 1990s came to a close. Friends, which centered around the lives, loves, and sexual encounters of six friends—Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), Monica (Courteney Cox), Ross (David Schwimmer), Chandler (Matthew Perry), and Joey (Matt LeBlanc).

The liberal sexual agenda pervaded the show. Sex had no consequences, and was readily available to all. According to one commentator, Rachel had twenty sexual partners over the ten-year life of the sitcom.47 When the show premiered in 1994, even the socially liberal Daily Variety noted, “Moral and health issues are sidestepped altogether: Friends touts promiscuity and offers liberal samples of an openness that borders on empty-headedness. It’s not much of a positive example for juves, though.”48

Single motherhood was no problem. When Rachel got pregnant by Ross after a one-night stand, there was little public outcry. “I don’t think the fans of the show really care that she’s pregnant and not married,” explained Mary Allen, director and founder of Genesis House, a Melbourne, Florida, shelter for homeless pregnant teenagers and women.49 Even once the baby was born, the writers were careful to ensure that the baby wouldn’t slow the action down. Instead, the baby simply disappeared from the screen. The same thing happened with Ross’s baby (brought up by Ross’s ex-wife and her lesbian lover), as well as Phoebe’s surrogate triplets. Ignoring your kids is so convenient!

Homosexuality was glorified. Ross’s ex-wife left him for another woman, and Friends became the first primetime show to broadcast a lesbian “wedding.” Monica chastised Ross for initially opposing the lesbian union, arguing: “They love each other, and they wanna celebrate that love with the people that are close to them.” Ross later rips into his ex-wife’s parents for opposing her lesbianism, and when Ross’s ex-wife has his baby, Phoebe explains that having a lesbian couple and absentee father for parents is just peachy: “Here’s this little baby who has like three whole parents who care about it so much that they’re fighting over who gets to love it the most. And it’s not even born yet. It’s just, it’s just the luckiest baby in the whole world.”50

As with other sex-filled shows, Friends was immensely popular among the youngest members of the porn generation. Since 2000, Phil Rosenthal of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, Friends became “exponentially bigger in nearly every way when viewed against the changing landscape of network television, a business it helped alter through its success in attracting the young viewers advertisers covet.”51 Ann Savage, associate professor of media arts at Butler University in Indiana, teaches about Friends to her students. “They grew up with it,” she says of her students. “They’ve been watching it since they were kids.”52

The show promoted adolescent attitudes into adulthood for teenagers. Friends took the place of family, and lasting super-platonic relationships were unnecessary. Friends was essentially a ten-year-long sleep-away camp for twentysomethings, where responsibility took a back seat to fun. As Jennifer Frey of the Washington Post characterized it, the show is

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