These things are always so insidious because they rely on just enough truth to be effective, and the minuteness of the distinction between truth and falsehood is so small, that when a person tries to point it out to the ignorant crowds, they're inevitably dismissed as 'scared'. Virginity and the way it signifies the importance we place on sex are good examples. There is an extent to which it is natural for society to deride a virgin, at a certain point in life. Boys at the high school level should be expected to do this, within reason. Why? Because sexuality is part of the human program, and it is a massive change for young people. It completely alters consciousness, and something that transformative is something we all experience along a kind of spectrum. Some young men will be chomping at the bit and will lose their virginity quite young. Others will wait longer, and between those places on the spectrum are a lot of varied and personal transitions to sexual adulthood. We're all born to different parents, and we all have our second birth into adulthood in ways that are a little unique too. A man *does* need to be pushed beyond the point of his sexual anxiety, however, and become encouraged by his male counterparts to do what men are expected to do. Many of society's social functions work through shame and insecurity. It's a raw deal. This is what we are. The same goes for so many other norms. The point I'm making is that the subversion going on surrounding sex today isn't just a completely foreign object thrown into culture. They are playing with regular social phenomena, exaggerating them. Putting their fingers on pressure points with celebrities and examples in media so that the social-pressure-engine starts earlier in life and goes harder. I've noticed this about a tremendous number of other things. I've heard 6 year old kids expressing sophisticated and shallow brand preferences and materialistic concepts. I can recall one of my girlfriend's cousins (6 years old) saying such and such a car was for poor people. I was thinking to myself how at that age I had no real idea about social classes or what made people poor. It sounded gross coming out of her mouth. What I really want to get at is how difficult this makes pointing the subversive process out. Since what they are doing is not an issue of direction, but of *magnitude*, it is very difficult to point the changes out without sounding like you're just rejecting something natural that society knows is true. There are these social heuristics that are already in place, where if you complain about anything related to sex, sexual maturation, money or material success...you'll just appear as if your are angry, bitter or resentful of the status quo. We've all experienced running into that wall. If you talk about how they are sexualizing girls way too young, some woman will respond: "Why do you hate women?" Generally, what's going on here? You are referring to some social process. She is referring to you. It's for the exact reasons I've already said: she is hearing you criticize something deeply culturally ingrained in us, and so she is scanning you for the source of the complaint, and she feels it must lie with some insecurity inside of you. She fails to see that *you aren't rejecting sex or regular sexual development*, but that you are criticizing how all of it is changing. It's all compounded by the fact that women generally benefit in a society where so-called sexual liberation takes place because it frees her to use sexual powers and competition against men, and other women. So on top of that, she is also subconsciously defending something that she knows pre-theoretically is the wellspring of her archetypal power in the universe. Any rebuke of it means you're trying to put a cap on it. You're beginning to see the archetype of the devouring mother brought to life, along with a span of generations of women drunk with the kind of chaotic power of their sexuality, so much so that they'll let their children be sacrificed to the heathen gods, just so the ride doesn't stop. They don't care if their children are being sacrificed to all of this. "Sure, let my kid be sexualized. Because the opposite means a return to society where the natural order says I have to conceal, protect, and be chaste with my body." - a return to the dreaded patriarchy! No, these women will toss their kids into the brazen bull and cover their ears until the sound of drums drowns out the crying. The Wall hits her hard enough, but it isn't sufficient to defuse this process. Our society still bends over backward for the bitter women, who with just one '*well, you're gonna go get your manager then*', will get whatever they want as long as they are willing to carry it on long enough. (And then we wonder why this weakens the son when he is raised by said woman! She never lets the world tell him no!) This entire attack taking place on our culture is so sophisticated and stifling that it's brilliant. I'm now of the mind there is something higher order at work here, but that's a different topic.