The things a girl will do
2 viewsThere was a disconcerting article in the news yesterday. Apparently a 13 year old Italian girl had been selling nude photos of herself to her classmates. She had even managed to ‘work’ with others who kindly took the photos.
Could this type of behaviour have anything to do with the nightly topless, or just about topless females that adorn the early evening ‘Studio Aperto’ ‘news’ programme? Noooo, surely not. I mean ‘Studio Aperto’ is not aimed at a younger audience, now is it?. Nah. There is no way an impressionable young girl could have got the impression that showing off your body is a jolly nice thing to do and that she might just make you a few bob or two from it, now is there? No way. That would be impossible. It could not be the fact that a generation of Italian kids have grown up with this kind of ‘mild porn’ public TV now, now could it? No, perish the thought. You would have expected that the head of the Roman Catholic church would have said something about all this before, wouldn’t you? After all the aforesaid church boss does actually live in this country, now doesn’t he?
I wonder just how the parents of the ‘young innocent’ felt when they discovered their offspring’s chosen career. I am not that sure I would think that it is all that good for my daughter or son to be acting like this. Or am I just being too puritan? I have to say that this kind of thing is not all that common here, at least it does not make the news, anyway. When I read the story I immediately thought of ‘Studio Aperto’, not to mention the host of other Italian TV programmes that use scantily clad females to keep viewer numbers up. Maybe I just came to too hasty a conclusion. Maybe. The thought of kids of that age getting up to such tricks - not so much the taking of the photos, but the selling of them, makes me a little sad and worried. Am I too old? Possibly.
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Perhaps you are getting too old Alex - only joking!
The amount of nudity in the media in Italy has always amused me, but I don’t think it’s particularly reflected in society. In the UK where the watershed is adhered to and nudity kept to a minimum, crime is higher, rape is higher, teanage pregnancy etc. I don’t think there’s a link, I think it’s simply down to family values. I sound old now!
I’m getting old too Alex. That is why I sold my tv over a year ago.
a.c.t - you are right - there is a much more liberal attitude to nudity here. The UK and US are much more puritan in this respect and, as you mention, the UK and US seem to have much higher numbers of rape and levels of teenage pregnancy when compared to Italy, so maybe it could be argued that a little nudity on TV keeps certain urges at bay. Rape levels do seem to be lower here too, I remember having posted about this before, and I think they are, although my Italian other half thinks that rape levels seem lower because they are not reported - but I am not convinced she is correct.
Still kids setting themselves up as mini-porn stars does not seem to be the right way to go…..
Sierra - I’m not sure you are getting old - but you have got wiser! Getting rid of your TV was a great thing to do. With DVD players (which cannot receive a TV signal - so you don’t need to pay a licence), the Internet and a good PC and monitor, you can provide yourself and your family with plenty of entertainment and access to all the information you want.
You can even say that the WWW promotes more social interaction, unlike the TV - my son loves to visit the interactive areas of the BBC childrens’ sites. We talk while playing around on the website - which is more than can me said of the TV which tends to kill conversation (Apart from my angry comments when I hear certain news items….)
All the best from Italy,
Alex