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I thought the film we watched today about indie games was really interesting. I don't play video games, so I didn't even know that indie games were a thing. I just assumed that everyone played GTA or COD or whatever. I think it's just cool that all these different types of media whether it be the film industry or the video game industry have the small people who fight for creativity instead of just being ruled by single minded, close minded corporations.


Anyway, I was really interested in the discussion our class had today about sex. It seems like the moment that the word "sex" is, even mentioned, the whole room goes quiet, and people either get extremely uncomfortable, or make immature jokes about it. From what I've gathered, sex is a negative thing. My church never talked about sex as like this amazing gift that you get to share with someone you love one day. It was a thing that would only happen when you're married. Parents never wanted to talk about it. For example, have you ever seen like a movie or show or something when a kid asks their mom or dad where babies come from and the parents will immediately freeze up and ignore the question, or say "I'll tell you when you're older", or something else that is completely unhelpful in enlightening their kids as to what exactly sex is or what it means. And then there is the lovely public education system, where, in my first day of health class, my teacher began by waiting for everyone to quiet down, and once everyone was silent, he proceeded to scream "PENIS!!!" and had everyone either laughing or just extremely uncomfortable. He then went on to explain that sex was bad, and you will only end up pregnant or dead from herpes or something. So, all in all, church, parents, school, have all ingrained in me the fact that sex is BAD. And I think the sad outcome in this is that we turn to the media to seek enlightenment and what we find is porn, or that people are very accepting of premarital sex, and boys and girls start to define themselves by whether or not they still have their virginity, or we just find that sex is just a casual activity that people do when they're bored and horny, or we learn its the way to get attention and a way to feel loved. So we have this warped and twisted idea of what we think sex is. We do not see it as this beautiful holy thing where two people become one, because nobody wanted to tell us about it.