Well I have been made aware of what is going on in the world and how it affects our kids, it seems like I hear something new and terrible everyday.

I know a 12 year old girl that was asked on Facebook to send naked pictures of herself to an adult, I know a 10 year old boy that has seen porn and was told about it at school, I hear stories of the talk at my daughters highschool.  I hear from my daughter how hard it is to buy normal clothes and I have seen toddlers and tiaras.  I have read of girls being raped and it being recorded on cell phones and then shared with numerous people and posted on the internet.  I see advertising on tv that uses half naked women to sell their products and I see things in magazines that should be in Playboy and these are magazines geared towards our youth.  I read stats and articles sharing this major problem that is changing people and not for the better.  I see kids being made to grow up well before their time with low self esteem or an entitlement attitude.  I see the future if this keeps happening with broken homes, selfish and emotionless people and others doing whatever to themselves to be noticed but noticed for how they look and not for who they are.  I see our boys being brainwashed into what is important in a relationship and how much they can get out of a girl whether it is a real girl or a porn girl and I see our girls fighting to be noticed and to be loved no matter how they have to do it.  It is sad and I want people to know that they do not have to buy into this, they can choose to be better and to value themselves and others.  People can have good fullfilling lives but it does not  come at the click of a mouse or in a size 0 jean either. Life is not perfect, life requires work and not immediate gratification and life has ups and downs in everythiing, that is why it is life and real life not fake.  This is what makes life interesting and challenging and rewarding!!!!!
 
Well today I wanted to do something productive and this is what I came up with.

It is my hope that this may help someone else, bring awareness to this huge life damaging problem and to help myself heal.

To give a little background on myself and how this issue has touched me recently and throughout my life, I will be writing here:)

This will be a firsthand account of how porn, objectification and media/technology can affect your life and those lives of the people you care about. 

I will be writing from a Wife's perspective, Mom's perspective, Aunt's perspective, Woman's perspective and that of a person who has had enough of not being enough in this world we live in.  It angers me that you cannot be yourself anymore, what comes out of your mouth dosen't matter, what you create dosen't matter and the goodness you do does not matter.  We live in a world of instant gratification and lack of intimacy and morals.  People have lost their values or have stuffed them so far away to enable them to act however they want and to treat others like crap.  People are not to be used for others cheap entertainment, people should be worthy and important because of who they truly are not by how people say they should be, not by how the media tells us who we should be, mainly women.

What happened to us?  What happened to sex being a gift we gave someone not something that was expected of us? Why are kids not being taught what sex is about and that it is more than just the act or going through the motions?  Why aren't they seeing what real sex should be and what intimacy between two people should look and feel like?  We are robbing our kids of a happy life, we are hindering them and letting technology and media teach them about sex, love and intimacy and that is wrong.


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    I am a wife and  mother of two, a highschool daughter and elementary aged son.  I am hardworking, loving, fun and supportive and I never thought this issue would touch my life but it has in more ways than one.  I want to bring more awareness to this major problem in our society and maybe can help someone along the way too.
    - Cam

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