I love the naivete required to observe the naked body as a work of art. Isn't that how God intended it to be?
Maybe this is off-topic, but the kids and I recently had a discussion about old movies. Have you ever noticed how many blatant sexual references there are in those old Doris Day movies? Even the old classic "Spencer's Mountain" (the one The Waltons was loosely based on) has a lot of "innuendos." In one scene Henry Fonda gives his hormone-happy teens a very earthy sex talk. (Blush!)
What's interesting to me is how kids today have been "educated" to understand those references. Back when I was young, those embarrassing scenes bounced right over my head. I was clueless. Completely naive. Today's kids understand all of it.
Sometimes I miss those sweet moments of childhood where everything was a wonder. Many times I have laughed about Timmy's discovery of the birds and the bees as enacted by the bull and the cow. Still clueless as a preschooler, his comment (besides the one about the bull's obvious anatomy transformation) was "Wow. I never knew bulls could walk on their hind legs."
Is it just me, or does it seem like kids today just know too much too soon? Is that a good thing, or is it a little sad?
Nowadays we have handy websites that review all movies from a "Christian" viewpoint. The trouble with those is that sometimes they overly highlight the innuendos that in the old days kids would have completely missed. For whatever it's worth, I do not buy into "Plugged In Online" and other sites' opinions about movies Christians should avoid. I do, however, appreciate the fuel for discussion after we watch movies deemed questionable.
If Focus on the Family had a website to review art museums, would they have steered our family away from the life-size mural of the pretty naked ladies "getting baptized"? Makes me wonder.
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