BDSM RTV MEDIA NEWS!!!!



08 may 2010




Oh no, the writhing's on the wall(Aguilera)



Source: www.heraldsun.com.au  - Herald Sun - Australia


I T'S not pop, it's just porn. Why does an established star such as Christina Aguilera need to put on a leather gimp mask in order to get attention these days?



Why does she need to be bound, gagged and tied to a chair in her latest film clip?

Why does she need to don a jewelled gag and dance like an S&M fetishist?

Yes, Madonna-style crotch grabbing and pointy bra cups wouldn't shock anyone now.

Rock has gone porn. And our pre-teen daughters are the target audience.

Even baby-face Miley Cyrus's latest video clip shows her dancing in a cage in black underwear.

But it's Aguilera who is really taking the bondage dominatrix thing to a whole new level. Let me tell you, her days with the Mickey Mouse Club are well and truly behind her.

Not Myself Tonight is Aguilera's first single since the birth of her son Max, and I guess she didn't want anyone to think she'd spent the last two years nanna napping on the couch.

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No question there. Although a new mother, the clip pretty firmly shows she's still young, hot and, yes, up for it.

No doubt Aguilera's feeling Lady Gaga's presence. Gaga - like Madonna before her - seems to have cornered the market for sexually provocative platinum blondes.

I'm not a wowser, but when you can't even turn on Channel V with young kids around because of how sexually provocative the clips are, something is seriously out of whack.

When are we going to get film clips that our kids can actually watch?
Particularly for the sake of my daughter, I'd also like female singers to take a break from portraying themselves as dance-mad nymphomaniacs hot for group sex, girl-on-girl action and S&M bondage.

Julie Gale, from the lobby group Kids Free 2B Kids, drew my attention to the Aguilera clip ahead of an Australian Council on Children and the Media conference next week.

Gale has long been campaigning against the sexualisation of childhood, and the use of pornographic images in current mainstream music.

I know music is meant to be edgy, and film clips push the boundaries in the name of art. But I don't think we should have to turn female singers into dominatrix porn queens just so they can get their music noticed.

What message is it sending our sons and daughters? Guys become pimps and girls become prostitutes, that's what.

It also bothers me that such explicit sexual images are contained in a film clip openly available on the web for anyone to view. You have to be over 18 to buy a porn mag, but you just have to turn on the TV or get onto YouTube to get a dose of hard-core pornography in a film clip.

Aguilera defended the clip by saying she was just expressing herself artistically - a point she's apparently made to her two-year-old son Max. "He's going to learn to respect the fact that women are allowed to express themselves and not feel shameful about their bodies or their sexuality," she said on the MTV website.

But I just don't buy the emancipation line. It's attention-seeking porn designed to sell music. There's nothing liberating about wearing a gimp mask or being tied to a chair. And we should stop pretending that any sexual attention is good attention. Or that to be sexy you have to continually push the boundaries, show lots of flesh, and generally behave like a bondage advocate.

So for now there's no MTV or Channel V in our house - it's MasterChef, Australia's Got Talent and Hey Hey It's Saturday all the way.

With these shows you don't have to worry about the possibility of Matt Preston, Kyle Sandilands or Daryl Somers popping on a gimp suit just to attract some attention. At least, let's hope not.