Inappropriate behaviour

Subject: Inappropriate behaviour

I'm trying not to become obsessed with this the Westminster groping scandal but since it has reached saturation point over here, with news bulletins, on the hour full of claim and denial about the behaviour of men towards women in Parliament.  I think it pertinent to point out that we are developing a schizophrenic set of values highlighting man's gross attitude towards women whilst ignoring the equally wanton part a women plays in the drama.
The headlines of a news paper which was flashed onto our screen to highlight the story also had on the same page, alongside the story a picture of a film star who's breasts were virtually hanging outside her dress. The two story's portray a separate set of values, separate but in so many ways, it illustrated the mess we have landed ourselves in.
Sexual explicit pictures in the papers and in television shows are full of this primeval subject. The shows on TV are nothing more than a total denial of the required behaviour expected across the land, in parliament, in the office, in any place men and women mix.
And so sexual gratification is depicted all around in a way it never was. The publications which held nude pictures on their centre page were explicit and exclusive. They could only be bought in certain shops and precluded children from seeing them by placing them on the top shelf away from young praying eyes. People who subscribed did so on the understanding that they were not left lying around and in a sense they were made to feel that they themselves were mentally deviant.
An exposay, in the old fashioned use of the word meant to expose a criminal act, the term to expose 'to exhibit openly' is now common in our daily experience, a sort of digest of what goes on in ordinary life. The who-hare in parliament and Hollywood takes place in the rarefied atmosphere of self analysis which these people continually indulge in. Their esteem is only topped by their egos as they jostle for centre stage.
It's a parallel universe. On the one hand, even the mildest innuendo can be misconstrued and a claim of 'inappropriate behaviour' levelled, whist the norms, in so far as the general public is concerned, behaviour, sinks each year. The appetite, shown by the ratings of these voyeuristic shows on TV and the numbers of copies sold with "page three nudity", confirms to me that the furore is synthetic.
We might do better to explore the sexual education our children get through the Internet and the sexually explicit behaviour of filming themselves in the nude sometimes performing acts mimicking the pornography they see at the touch of a key before sending their own pornographic offering to friends. This perversion is far more damaging than the hand on a knee or a comment in the coffee area and yet the same parliamentarians who are now clambering for recognition that they were some how damaged by the unwanted attention, seem strangely quiet in perusing the real damage done each day on the television and on the internet in glorifying sex in all its disturbing manifestations.
Sure there is something wrong in promoting and sexualising women but equally it can't be right, crying foul in some sectors of society whilst ignoring the influence of the 'sex industry' or the many women who are complicit in it.