For everyone out there obsessed or who knows someone that’s obsessed with watching Gossip Girl, Melrose Place, Jersey Shore, 90210 and all those other shows on TV, it gives me one reason I don’t have cable. Besides the fact we cannot afford a $50 cable bill, all those shows are is soft core porn, and as a Christian I don’t feel I should be watching things of that nature.

Some of you might say “don’t watch it then if you’re so prudish!” 

I still get The CW, even on antenna, so I still get to see previews of some of the shows, and seriously, I can watch late night TV(since my hubby gets off at 11:15 at night I sometimes do), and see a 1-900 number for a chat-line that’s cleaner than the previews, believe it or not! I am not a prude, I don’t condemn ALL cable, just those soft core porn teen to mid twenty something shows. If I had cable I would be watching Intervention, Obsessed and Speeders, three of my top shows I miss that are on cable.

 

I mean really, how many times can I watch someone getting naked and having sex with someone that’s pssh, not even her boyfriend. But, that doesn’t matter it’s all a TV show right? It’s all right to watch people parade around half naked in school and out in public, go to wild out of control drinking parties when you know they’re not legally 21 yet, because it’s a TV show no one is really going to go out in real life and get plastered like that.

Rumors that are so maliciously hateful are never said in real life, once again, people believing what’s on TV doesn’t happen in real life. Statistics actually show that in the last 20 years, teen pregnancy has spiked, which follows the trend of shows getting racier and dirtier.

I am actually old enough to remember the beginnings of Beverly Hills 90210 and the original Melrose Place; my parents watched those shows and I watched it with them. Up until the 3rd or 4th season they were relatively clean, there was no blatant sex scenes, no blatant partying, and other things that the “new 90210″ shows on every single episode. Same with Dawson’s Creek, another show I watched, it was fairly clean too!

But I’m going back 10-15 years when the regulations and controls on what could be showed and not showed was a lot stricter too. I remember as a kid, knowing that after either 8 or 9pm there was nothing good on TV. Except on Friday night, because that was TGIF on ABC, where we watched Family Matters, Full House, Boy Meets World and other shows like that.

How come it’s so “popular” to watch shows like this, and why are parents allowing their kids to watch this? Do they realize that the age their children are (including myself I am only 23) learning and watching these things, thinking it’s okay to go to a wild party, get plastered and have sex with someone you don’t even know?

Same with their appearance, they’re looking to these actors and actresses thinking that they have to look as pretty and handsome as they do, buy the clothes that’ll make them fit in and look like them because they think that’s what everyone wants. As we all know appearance at that age is everything right? I think this is sending the wrong message and there’s a reason 20 or 30 girls at one school are all pregnant, and why so many teens are experimenting with alcohol and drugs, they are watching and copying their favorite stars. They don’t realize that if they post pictures of themselves in skimpy attire, have their pictures taken at a wild party and they’re tagged in a photo that one day will come back to haunt them.

I think shows like this set a bad example, and I for one don’t watch it, even those I have access to with my limited “free” tv. I chalk it up there as a “soft core porn” you don’t even have to get carded for, go to the seedy side of town to the adult bookstore, or even order it from your cable tv, because its all right there at your normal 8-10pm time slot. That is the main reason I don’t have cable, I don’t want to watch it, because I find it disturbing and immoral. If I want to watch porn, I would turn on my TV, and have a field day, but soft core teenage porn isn’t my taste.

Do you agree? Do you watch any of these shows?