Thursday, June 30, 2011
DESMOND CYRIL
Dabbling in issues of morality is quite a challenge to me. Fact being that I’m not flawless, neither am I spic and span, devoid of any “spec” in my eyes. However the upsurge of immorality and social decadence has been so immortalized and institutionalized that it calls for concern.
I watch the so called African movies and it’s disheartening to observe how women who are supposed to be Christians find it absolutely prudent to submerge and conceal their cherished values just for money.
My initial thoughts indeed were erroneous. It is an ineluctable fact that the posture of these actresses is tantamount to prostitution, sheer hypocrisy and desperation for money? Just reflect on what they do in films. They dress like “bitches” half naked or probably almost naked just to make "cash out of the trash" they put up. They kiss desperately and passionately in films and allow themselves to be fondled by their male irresponsible counterparts. So what’s the thin line, I mean the difference between prostitutes and film actresses.
May be I’m just trying to malign and indict the integrity of these actresses but for what benefit would I engage in such a frivolity. It would be sarcastic and a laughable hypocrisy for anyone to suggest that the passionate kisses, supposed sex and indecent dressing for money do not constitute prostitution.
The apparent difference between actresses and prostitutes is probably the fact that they do not really have sex on set.
Just imagine that in this “society of impropriety”; a married woman is caught kissing someone else. All hell will break lose. But if the same scenario is repeated in a film it’s an absolute normality. What’s more petrifying is that nobody ever talks about it. Such inconsistency is to say the least a strategic dysfunction of the society.
Just that I do not victimize anybody, I would flee from the temptation of naming names, to avoid any unnecessary confrontations.
Let’s however not be tight lipped about the proliferation of these abnormalities.
Presently, film is just about unleashing sexual opulence in an incessant and unfettered manner full of passion with the flimsy excuse that there are no strings attached to it. The question we should be conscious of is; "do prostitutes attach any strings to their customers or clients"? They just do it for money. So it’s just so synonymous.
I don’t think I would leave out those quacks who call themselves directors and producers. I recently heard one of them say categorically that "if you can’t kiss, then I’m sorry you can’t act”. Such an irresponsible comment from a matured person. I shudder to think these people actually reflect on what they churn out? From all indications, it’s obvious that they lack the pre-requisite technical knowhow. Anyone who has some rickety cameras and a bunch of “harlots” can produce a film.
They lack the innovative and captivating ideas, resorting to obscene, nudity etc. No wonder these lascivious and lecherous “prostitutes” churn out absolute rubbish which they call films that have no positive moral implications for the society.
All they do is to expose their naked bodies, to frustrate the eyes of men. They shake their butts provocatively and expose their breasts as if it were “2 balls of banku served on a plate”.
Lets not obfuscate the issues here. The fact is that sexual opulence is now the “real deal”. Why do we castigate homosexuals and remain oblivious of the moral decadence of film “prostitutes”.
Instead of addressing the pertinent issues, the society decide to prattle about unnecessary things, which are inimical to the advancement of our society, which (the society) has become so admonished with filth: filth in gutters, on the streets and most importantly in the minds of the people.
In spite of the pretty deductive and illustrative truths I’ve evinced above, I wouldn’t be perplexed if I come under a barrage of vitriolic and vituperative attacks.
Indeed the hitherto cherished and virtuous are not dormant but explicitly defunct and extinct so I can’t be bordered about any empty and elusive castigation.
To make this society return to its unsullied state, it’s imperative and incumbent on us all to eschew hypocrisy and call a spade a spade. Be more circumspect in our utterances and “hit the nail on the head”. If we should all in a sense of communion condemn this moral decadence which has embellished and enveloped the society into a dungeon of “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” state , where the life of man is so self centered, life will be much more harmonious and relatively easy to live in in this hypocritical society of ours.
From what I’ve illustrated so far, it’s clear and obvious that prostitutes on the street do not in any way differ from those actresses who shamelessly bite each other’s mouth as if they were kissing and whose bodies are caressed by the male actors, all in the name of money.
In essence I can’t perceive any thin line which exonerates actresses from the dungeon of sexual promiscuity and sexual lusciousness.
I’m quite convinced that any sensible person who reads this article would think twice when considering what prostitution is.
For me, the prostitutes are not those who stand on the roads and wait for a “catch in a batch” but rather those “She-Pocrites”, who shamelessly ignore their husbands at home, relegate all senses of morality and values but choose to engage in "sexual extravaganza on set.
NB: I write this with no intention of unnecessarily victimizing anyone, so if by any sphere of reason, someone thinks my language so too vulgar, that’s his or her view, “so hold it”, and in as much as you can hold your views, I’m sure you would also allow me to have mine and hold it.
