From the P-Unit’s song You Guy and basically means’ you can have sex’ and other popular songs like Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines and Rihanna’s Friends with the Monster.
Would you believe the vitriol and scorn poured upon
the church and the pastors over that poster! I mean Nairobians took to
twitter, Facebook and even radio stations to curse and condemn the
church for ‘coolifying’ their church and using sex to sell their church.
Some even predicted the end times nearing! I am a practical girl, so I
love to deal in facts. Here we go;
Fact number one: Teenagers are having sex. They are breaking their virginity as early as 11 years old. Sorry, you have a thirteen year old? Too bad, she could be gerring-it more times a week than you do. Sad, but true.
Fact number two: Teens are not only having sex, they are recording it for their friends, and they taking photos of themselves stark naked and they are sharing hard-core pornographic materials. You don’t believe me? Check your son’s WhatsApp timeline.
This “Blurred Lines’ Mavuno poster only scratches the surface in regards to what teens do these days, they “gerrit’ like every day, and the boundaries we are taught in Sunday school have now become “blurred lines”.
What’s more, they have read 50 shades of grey cover to cover and know more styles than all of us put together. What the poster merely does is to remind us that these teens we call kids are not kids anymore, but young people in need of help and guidance.
Keep your religious theories and Bible verses to yourself, because the truth is, teens are humping each other left, right and center (pun intended) and your ‘World is coming to an end’ theory does not apply here.
We are making fools of ourselves condemning Pastor Murithi Wanjau (teens call him Pastor M) and the Mavuno church for ‘showing porn to children’, while the truth really is Pastor M and Co. are just telling us what we do not want to hear. Teens are having sex! And there you are, seated there pretending that your teens are still the same pure little virgins born 15 years ago.
Well, there are those Nairobians with a rare kind of hypocrisy and stupidity that say the poster promotes sex among teens. I don’t even know what to tell you, except that you need a brain transplant. I am no theology student but I know one of the hallmarks of evangelism is to start from where people are and then lead them to Christ. If Christ mixed with prostitutes and tax collectors, then the poster has every right to address the teens in the language they best understand.
Those pair of legs on that poster is not even close to what teenagers watch on television. Have you seen how your teenage daughter tweaks like there’s no tomorrow, how she gyrates her booty against that teenage boy like the world is ending tonight? You think Robin Thicke’s song ‘Blurred lines’ is porn? You clearly haven’t caught your teen watching Macka Diamond’s “Dye Dye Dye” and Busy Signal’s ‘Bedroom Bully’.
This is not about that ill-fated poster. Far from it. This is about the state of our society. The fact that parents have failed in teaching their children the truth about sex and simplifying such a glorious activity to just birds and bees. This is about the fact that teens-no, your teen, needs help in demystifying this thing called sex.
For instance; why it sounds and probably feels so much better without a condom and why sex with the same person gets boring at some point. I know it’s a tall order to ask you to talk to your teen about sex, so why not let those have the guts to tackle the elephant in the room?
SOURCE : NJOKI CHEGE
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