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Why Must We Sexualize Everything

Sat, 01/19/2013 - 10:57
Submitted by Carlin Ross

Bishop Larry Trotter posted this picture of himself with his granddaughter on Instagram and started a social media uproar. Comments poured in about his "disgusting" behavior alluding to some sort of sexual contact.

Trotter called into the John Hannah Morning Show to explain himself and explain how the previous days had been dark ones for his family.  The bishop told the radio show hosts that his granddaughter and her parents had been visiting, and he was taking a bubble bath, wearing swimming trunks, when the four-year-old wandered into the bathroom.

When the girl, also wearing trunks, asked if she should get into the bath, her mother placed her in the tub for a few minutes and snapped the family photo. Trotter explained that another family member with access to his Instagram account posted the picture online, where the scandal immediately flared.

Now I don't believe the part about the swimming trunks at all. But what's the big deal if they were naked? They're family and nudity is natural.  Why must we sexualize everything?

The first penis I ever saw was my father's. My parents didn't shield nudity from us.  If I walked into the bedroom while they were having sex, they simply stopped...my mom put on a robe and walked me back into my room. If either of them were in the shower and I knocked on the door to use the toilet, they simply finished bathing naturally and dried off.  No big deal.

Such a sweet moment ruined by sexual repression.

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Sun, 01/20/2013 - 19:47
Patrick_R

This is clearly an innocent family photo. Hanging on my grandparents' wall for decades was a baby picture of my mother, lying on her stomach naked on a bearskin rug. Like the picture above, this type of photo was considered cute and was completely innocent and nonsexual in intent and in fact. We have to realize that it is really the people sexualizing such photographs who are preoccupied with the unwholesome, not the families taking sweet and innocent pictures of their kids.

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