#age restricted

I want to keep talking about issues in this blog whenenver I have time. And one thing that I really want to talk about, is sex and sexuality - especially in terms of popculture and fandom. And let's be honest: Also in terms of the USA, because a lot of the issues originate with US purity culture.

We know the issue in fandom spaces of the "antis", who are anti-shippers, who will try to police other people's fandom experience. It is usually about more than just shipping. It is about the sexual practices that people depict those fictional characters engaging in fanart and fanfiction. It is about characters, who in canon are minors, having sex at all, even if aged up (and even if the writer is living in a country where it is perfectly fine and dandy for like two 15yos to have sex). It is also about characters who have some trauma in the canon material having sex at all. Oh, and it is also about original characters by any writer - and be it in novels - are not holding up to any sexual purity stuff. Oh, and according to some of those people BDSM in general is not alright.

But, like... The fact remains that this is very much connected to American purity culture, that thanks to globalization and the fact that all social media and a lot of influential media in general originates in the US, this is pretty much forced onto the rest of the world. And that is without going into the backstory of bloody colonialism, that brought this purity ideas almost everywhere and is still pushing it onto other cultures.

Remember, a lot of cultures internationally were perfectly fine with homosexuality in one way or another - until colonialism happened.

And we are on tumblr. Who, if not us tumblrites know about how censorship for sexual topics, while a lot more bloody, and violent aspects are absolutely fine? And of course this is true for fandom culture in general. After all, the older fans do remember the purges on FF.net and Livejournal.

Something I will talk about this week is also the fact that a lot of media does indeed go with this: Naked women without any sexual context? R-Rated! Blood and murder? Oh, yeah, that is absolutely PG-13.

And we also of course know that a lot of sexual education online will very much be censored. Even though this sexual education will help people - including kids - to protect themselves from sexual assault and exploitation.

Agreed honestly . . . . .

I mean, can't really blame Brandon, Viv, Adam, or anyone in charge of this show. It's not like they're responsible for what children watch on the Internet. That's the parents job. Especially when the disclaimer is put up at the start of every episode (almost every episode not counting ep 8). I'm sure this child is old enough to know how to read and what NOT to be lookin' at.

We all had our moments where we were exposed to at least something in our childhood, regardless if we knew what it meant or not. Curse words, sexual content of any kind, nudity, dirty jokes, blood and gore, etc. I was certainly exposed to at least some of this. Now my parents didn't care what we heard. The F bomb could have dropped and they wouldn't bat an eye. (Especially when my Dad pretty much cussed in front of us constantly). Whether it be from a movie, a TV show, music, they didn't care. We would even find cussing to be hilarious as children. REPEATING these words however, is a whole different story. Now way in hell were we allowed to cuss, especially in front of them. That was a definite no-no in the household and disobedience isn't tolerated.

Sexual content is a bit of the same, kinda. Of course, we were not allowed to see it. My mom would always change the channel until a scene was over or press the skip button.

The whole point of this is that there's a limit. You're gonna hear curse words regardless of what age you are. The parents won't cuss around their children, but what's to stop them from hearing it from the outside world. There's no stopping it, just make sure your child doesn't repeat it. But anything sexual or blood and gore CANNOT be within the child's sight. And Helluva along with Hazbin, shows PLENTY of that. Tongue kissing, gore, and all that vulgar bs. So yeah, it is rather concerning that a child at her age (however old she may be. I'm assuming 10 or something) would see something as vulgar as Helluva Boss. And I would advise all the parents and adults out there to NOT encourage it. We've all had our moments of being exposed to certain things on the Internet or TV, but that doesn't mean it's okay and children should NOT get themselves involved in it. You would only be showing them it's okay.