Okay. So is it just me?
There I was, drinking my Saturday morning coffee, having a lovely lie in, scrolling through social media all chilled and tranquil.
BAM! First thing I see is Kanye West talking about and I quote 'a finger up his ass'.
Annoyed at the unnecessary vulgarity, I ignore this and continue scrolling. I land straight onto an article titled "Eating a vagina cures cancer ..." - along with all the lame and predictable 'free offers' in the top comments.
Trying not to spit my coffee out in disgust, I move my eyes down the screen and literally the very next post down I come face to face with the rehashed-a-million-times 'Swallowing the truth: the many benefits of semen ..." article.
*names of friends have been cropped out for their privacy
Maybe I'm being a super prude but for a girl with an over active imagination, being mentally assaulted with images of West's butt hole, and then being forced to think of intimate dealings with a vagina is not the nicest way for me to start the weekend (did I mention that I'm straight? :P) .
I feel like a fish out of water. I mean, is this just what getting old is, or have I suddenly just developed some weirdly different set of morals to everyone else? If so, how did this even happen?
It's all too much for me. I thought social media was about connecting with folk, learning interesting things about the world around us, and keeping in contact with friends - not being force fed sexual acts that I assumed were only meant to be discussed on porn sites.
Is it really necessary to wake up to a full sensory sexual assault in the early hours of a Saturday morning? I like to think that as a species we are capable of more than Maslov's physiological level!
Please don't get me wrong, I'm not a total prude and am known to have my mind in the gutter as often as the next person, but jeepers, like where is the actual line these days?
Yesterday was no different. I opened up my Cosmo magazine on a Friday night after a long week at school, and straight away find myself face to face with a semi naked photograph of some or other male celebrity with the quote line reading, "Doggy style is my preferred position". What the actual hell?! Has the world gone mad? Am I the only person who is seeing this stuff?
I'd be horrified if all the details of my sex life were on topic for the whole world to discuss - think about mom and dad!
Perhaps the rise of internet porn had blurred the boundaries of what is socially acceptable to discuss in public? I don't mind dirty jokes and the odd awkward sexual encounter story, but when scrolling through an apparently family friendly social media platform becomes a dodging the c*mshot exercise, I feel like I'm being force fed sexual fantasy that quite frankly, I don't want to know about.
There are sites for that sort of thing, right? Lots and lots of sites. And if the need so took me, I would know where to look, but is it really okay to just have these things thrust in our faces?
What do you guys think? Am I just getting old, or should we respect each other's mutual space by keeping these things in places where you want to see them?
#grossedout
#itsalltoomuchforme
