I suppose I\u2019m a fairly typical guy. I love Top Gear, sport and action movies. I love extreme (ish) endurance challenges, prog rock (cant believe I just admitted that) and nothing more than and banter filled evening with my mates. I\u2019m also madly and deeply in love with my wife of 19 years and I totally adore and love to bits my two daughters Emily and Annie who are 12 and very nearly 14.<\/p>\n
I also have a sex drive. I\u2019m a red blooded male, so what do you expect? The fact we don\u2019t talk about it much in churches doesn\u2019t mean that we don\u2019t. However, there\u2019s a problem. The world outside the church is highly sexually driven but they do talk about it. In fact, they don\u2019t just talk about it; they flaunt it and get in everyone\u2019s faces. The church by contrast seems powerless to respond and the sexualised culture we have marches on.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a lot I could say but in a few short words I\u2019ll say it as it is:- I\u2019m pretty sick of the porn peddlers. It drives me mad (anger is a very underrated fruit of the spirit). I walk into a newsagent with my two girls and right in their faces are a bunch of lads mags with bare breasted women and smutty headlines. So what\u2019s that saying to my girls? Its saying something like;<\/p>\n
\u201cyou are objects of sexual gratification for blokes\u2026that\u2019s all your good for.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n And what\u2019s it saying to men? I guess its something like; \u201cthis is what drives you\u2026we know what you\u2019re really all about\u2026we know what you really want\u2026and its smut and sleaze\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u2028Time to take a stand I think fellas.<\/strong><\/p>\n You want to make a difference? Next time you see lads mags in a newsagent at eye line, either turn them all around or scoop \u2018em up and place them on the counter and ask them to be displayed more appropriately. Evil persists when good people do nothing<\/em>. (Edmund Burke).<\/p>\n It\u2019s also time for blokes to start to speak up and put up. We\u2019re not all driven by sleaze. We can flipping love sex but be monogamous and strictly eyes front. We need to start fighting the porn cancer that\u2019s eating at the hearts of men. Watch this space but I feel like a man at war.<\/p>\n As for page 3? It\u2019s become so culturally ingrained we\u2019ve forgotten how demeaning it is for us all. I\u2019m writing this on the day that the Duchess of Cambridge had a picture taken of her topless on holiday whilst in private. It\u2019s a disgrace. Lets show that we want no more part of this. Take 5 minutes and sign this petition<\/a>. Time to start demonstrating that \u2018real men\u2019 don\u2019t do porn.<\/p>\n Carl Beech<\/p>\n