So, Straits Times has published my letter (which I emailed yesterday) in the Forum page today.
Here it is, word for word:
TV show shouldn't plug premarital sex
ON SUNDAY I watched a telecast of What Women Want - Really, hosted by Diana Ser on Channel NewsAsia. Each episode of the tongue-in-cheek series focuses on one of the seven deadly sins and the one that I watched was on 'Lust'.
What I found objectionable was that the episode featured an attractive woman (Ginny) in her early 20s, who had taken the initiative to book a special hotel room for her boyfriend and herself.
The interview with Ms Ser, the 'sexy' decor of the hotel room, the lingerie that Ginny showed off, and the look of pleasant surprise on her boyfriend's face when he appeared were obvious signs that Ginny had prepared for a night of passion with her boyfriend.
In a society which the Government has deemed conservative time and again by way of censorship, how could the producers allow this young couple who clearly espouse premarital sex to be featured on national television? Couldn't they have featured a married couple instead?
I am dismayed that a contradictory message is being sent to teenagers, who would have undergone sexuality education in school which teaches that premarital sex is not to be condoned.
Kelvin Lau Jit Hwee
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What's ironic is that I actually knew Ginny a few years ago. She was in the same faculty (Science) as me during my time in NUS, and we were involved in a faculty project briefly once.
Here it is, word for word:
TV show shouldn't plug premarital sex
ON SUNDAY I watched a telecast of What Women Want - Really, hosted by Diana Ser on Channel NewsAsia. Each episode of the tongue-in-cheek series focuses on one of the seven deadly sins and the one that I watched was on 'Lust'.
What I found objectionable was that the episode featured an attractive woman (Ginny) in her early 20s, who had taken the initiative to book a special hotel room for her boyfriend and herself.
The interview with Ms Ser, the 'sexy' decor of the hotel room, the lingerie that Ginny showed off, and the look of pleasant surprise on her boyfriend's face when he appeared were obvious signs that Ginny had prepared for a night of passion with her boyfriend.
In a society which the Government has deemed conservative time and again by way of censorship, how could the producers allow this young couple who clearly espouse premarital sex to be featured on national television? Couldn't they have featured a married couple instead?
I am dismayed that a contradictory message is being sent to teenagers, who would have undergone sexuality education in school which teaches that premarital sex is not to be condoned.
Kelvin Lau Jit Hwee
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What's ironic is that I actually knew Ginny a few years ago. She was in the same faculty (Science) as me during my time in NUS, and we were involved in a faculty project briefly once.
