Nearing Midnight: Hollywood's New Trend: Gratuitous Nudity and Profanity - Todd Strandberg - http://www.raptureready.com/rap16.html
As end-time signs go, immorality is one the best tools for measuring prophetic progression. For decades, the moral standards of our nation have been locked in a relentless decline. We've had some brief periods where reform would cause a rebound, but the improvement would eventually fade and the downward trend would continue.
The temperance movement of the early 20th century created a 20-year decline in the consumption of alcohol. Once prohibition was ruled to be a failure, the consumption of booze rose for the next 60 years. It was only interrupted briefly by the financial crisis of 2008.
There are some sins, that have had explosive growth from the day they gained a foothold in our nation. The sin of corporate and state backed gambling started when Nevada legalized it in 1931, giving Las Vegas and Reno a monopoly in casino gambling. Today, casinos are all over the country. I was shocked when Terry and I drove across Oklahoma, and we passed at least eight Indian casinos.
Another area seeing rapid moral decline is television. When broadcast networks first set-up standards for decadence they were followed as closely as the programming scripts. Back in the 1950s moral sensitivity made it taboo to show anything that could be seen as crude in nature. Today, almost anything goes. TV ethics are draining away like the sands of an hour glass.
One recent low in morality caught my attention because it shows how lackadaisical we've become about decency. The programming for several new shows contain gratuitous scenes of nudity. The key word to focus on is gratuitous-it has no good reason for being there. The nudity is purely added as a titillation factor. They don't actually show full-frontal nudity in these basic cable shows. The people are in the buff, with the naughty parts blurred out or blocked from view by selective editing.
One of these shows is called Nude Dating. It is much like any other reality dating show, except the contestants show up in their birthday suits. It amazes me that producers can find people who agree to take part in what is a thinly veiled soft-porn production.
There is at least five other programs that also feature gratuitous nudity. These shows include:
Naked and Afraid - Unclothed castaways strolling around on an island.
Buying Naked - Nude couples making real estate transactions.
Naked Vegas (Skin Wars) - Nude body painting.
Born in the Wild - Nude pregnant women giving birth in the woods.
Sex Box - Nude couples in soundproof boxes talking with therapists.
The show about couples buying a home in the nude should be an insult to even the most avid advocate of pornography. They might as well have naked welding or nude alligator wrestling. Hollywood is not only demonstrating its moral deficiency, but also their bankruptcy of creativity.
According to The Wrap, a news site that covers the entertainment industry, cable programming executives are "being flooded with pitches for naked dating shows." One producer said that he has already seen a dozen naked dating pitches come across his desk this year. The ratings weren't all that great for Naked Dating. It only had 826,000 viewers. By comparison, most of the network's original series averaged at least a million viewers.
I also noticed that profanity was been presented in a gratuitous manner. Bleeped cursing in TV ads dates back to a 2010 Super Bowl Bud Light ad that featured office workers cursing to raise money for a swear jar. Even though the commercial used a ploy that came right out of the gutter, it was praised for its cleverness and even won an Emmy.
A few days ago, I encountered a commercial for Trivigo, a travel cost comparison website. It had the pitchman for the site spewing out curse words (again bleeped) out of frustration for not being able to remember how to promote the product. I've never heard of the company before, but I do know that I would never use the services of a firm that would so callously pollute the public airways.
The problem with living in the days of Noah, we don't know how much more wicked Man can get before the Rapture takes place. When we reach the point where programmers don't even bother to disguise their evil intent, we know the end must be near.
"But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be" (Matthew 24:37-39).
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