{"id":524,"date":"2006-06-17T15:00:48","date_gmt":"2006-06-17T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=517"},"modified":"2006-06-17T15:00:48","modified_gmt":"2006-06-17T15:00:48","slug":"61606","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"6\/16\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote a column today that is titled: Post Modern Voyeurs and Exhibitionists<\/em>. My contiention is that most people in America (many unknowingly) have become one of these, or both. An excerpt from the column: A man is walking down the street with his wife and a scantily clad woman is approaching from the opposite direction. He stares. Then he stares intently. And as she walks by, he turns and stares intently some more. At which point, his wife, just as ‘intently,’ slaps him. Now, here’s the irony… That same man could be at home sitting on his couch intently watching scantily clad women on prime time television for hours — while his wife is in the kitchen thinking nothing about it… I shared this scenario in a talk to a graduate Religion Class at Bluffton College several years ago, and the professor reflected: “When you think about this objectively<\/em>, it would be just the same as if the man watching television would have said to his wife: ‘Honey, I’m going next door to look in the window at Marge for a couple hours.”‘ …This all begs the probing psycho-sociologically significant question: “Have we gone nuts?” Or perhaps more apt: “Have we totally lost our common sense, or in this case, our: moral compass?” Note: <\/strong> I’m a former mental health counselor. And I’ve watched, time and again, how unconscious anger has played havoc with one’s emotional state, and with one’s relationships. And don’t think for a minute that if a spouse is, day in and day out, ‘intently’ watching scantily clad people (no matter what the medium) that there isn’t unconscious anger welling in the other spouse. Anger that can, ultimately, contribute significantly to the break-up of a marriage… Incidentally, the current divorce rate in the country is approaching: 60%<\/em>. Again, if we start connecting these dots…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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