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Sex Lies And The Media: What Your Kids Know And Aren't Telling You, Eva Marie Everson, Jessica Everson, Colorado: Cook Communications Ministries, 2005, 253 pages
If a person who has always appeared in public clean-shaven only suddenly falls ill, is not allowed to shave for two weeks, and is then seen by others, they will be surprised. Some will be shocked. Often so radical is the difference between the two states of the same person. However, the unshaven person himself does not find much of a change if he were using the mirror every day. Such is the power of 'continuity'.
What people see continually, if allowed to change gradually, can acquire a state totally different from the original one, but practically nobody will notice. This "continuity" has been divinely built into the human system as a blessing, so that each day we adapt to the slightly changed situations without reinventing the wheel again. But what is a divine blessing is often used by the Cosmos Diabolicus to turn man against God and causing him at the same time to lose the potential blessings, a masterly stroke to kill two birds at the same time.
Sex Lies and the Media explores one such area, legitimate in the right context, but increasingly being forced outside its rightful sphere of existence and practice. Since it is being done at a slow pace, the principle of continuity desensitizes people into thinking that what they (or their children) see today is essentially the same as what they saw yesterday -- harmless, in their thinking. These parents would be shocked if they took a little time to check actually what is shown. Eva Marie Everson had a look, was shocked, and started doing something for it, through fiction at first, and then through a factual book here. He daughter Jessica Everson joined her to offer research and also a young person's perspective.
As a researcher and speaker on analysis of propaganda and mind manipulation methods, I enjoyed reading the clear, honest, and authentic description of the authors. Let me present a few quotes from her, that might shock parents, but that represent the truth:
- According to the teens and preteens surveyed, one of the most significant influences in early sexual activity is the media (P 28)
- The Enemy -- our enemy, Satan -- has been using sex to separate God and man since sin's first appearance on earth. Yet he is cunning -- and sneaky. He has taken his time, which is one of his greatest assets: patience. The changes in the last one hundred to fifty years -- especially as they relate to modern media -- have been so subtle that as a parent you may or may not have noticed them. Or you may not have noticed them entirely. The truth is, what, at one time, was being done outside the bounds of God's holy order for husbands and wife is now being openly exposed to the innocent eyes of our children on a daily, hourly, even moment-to-moment basis (P 27)
- I promise that you cannot seclude them from what you don't like for them if they can't understand for themselves why your action is best for them (P 47)
In sever chapter and three appendixes the authors provide a very accessible, Biblical, logical, and essential critique of the current sex-driven media, packaged as something else. Every parent should read this book before they allow the media to baby-sit their children. The world is full of wholesome material (both printed as well as electronic), but you need to know at a deeper level, rather than what the package says, to choose and offer it to your children -- and convince them that this is the best.
The end-notes are useful. The list of web-sources is already outdated, with some websites gone (probably forever) from the net, but this is a peril with any printed list. However, what are left will lead the readers into some of the best resources.
Reviewed By: Dr. Johnson C. Philip
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