The world has gone crazy...

I was laid out with a nasty cold for a few days and when not asleep on the couch I was flipping channels. I came across the show

Sex...with Mom and Dad

This is what MTV has to say: "Dr. Drew's groundbreaking series on MTV, Sex...with Mom and Dad, is back for a second season to help 20 more teens, and their parents, get to the root of their problems when it comes to the taboo topic of sex."

The title itself is bad enough. (Nothing better for getting the public's attention than to infer that your show is about incest.) The episode I stumbled upon featured a sixteen year old girl who did not feel comfortable discussing sex with her parents. The mother wanted to share with her daughter the intimate details of her own sex life- but guess what? The daughter just didn't want to hear it.

I couldn't stomach the whole thing but apparently the parents were worried that their daughter was too uptight. I flicked back at the end and the girl had been "healed." She learned to loosen up her views and be open to being sexual and to talking about it with her parents.

The world world has gone crazy when a girl clearly conveys to her parents that she is not interested in talking about sex and her parents take her to a therapist so that millions of people can pity the poor girl.

Did the parents consider that perhaps she doesn't want to talk to them because she doesn't share their views? Perhaps she's not even considering entering the realm of sex? Have they realized that most people really don't want to hear about what's going on in their parents bedroom?

What if she's really "crazy" and has decided to wait for marriage? What are her parents going to do then -stage an intervention or perhaps institutionalize her.