Crippled by Innuendo

I was giving my little brother a hug at school today and found myself nervous of being seen by my classmates. Why was this? It was because I feared the inevitable paedophile jokes. Harmless though they may be intended, they bring up an underlying issue with society as it currently stands which could be the key to understanding a whole network of emotional problems currently prevalent. A lot of people find it difficult to feel or encounter love without sexual connotation. In a society obsessed with sex and the hounding of paedophiles, and a vast network of double entendres and innuendo to be avoided, people out of a kind of twisted cynicism find it difficult to believe that any kind of love can be innocent. This is why you don’t see middle aged children’s TV presenters anymore. This is why all teenage men undergo a stage of believing themselves to be homosexual, unable to deal with strong male bonding and feelings of camaraderie. This is dangerous, as emotions that cannot be expressed as either romantic sexual love or innocent affection is turned immediately to hatred. Vehement homophobes often turn out to be themselves homosexuals in denial as their prejudices forbid them release of their emotions the natural way, so it saturates, polarity reversed, into hate.