The Source of Innocence

In this world of violence, sex and drugs, where is a source of innocence in the United States?

Television is no help; take a look at any drama show and you see R rated stuff. Grand Theft Auto has effectively made games the prime target for violence and sex while 4chan has decimated the web's chance of being viewed as innocent. Reading materials aren't that much better either: Newspaper exhibits the violence of this world and the some books are so graphic that, what they create with words, could be considered pornographic. What's so far untouched?

Old-fashioned comics.

I'm not talking xkcd comics here, in fact some a quarter references sex (with that hint of science and math of course); I'm talking about normal stuff you see in the newspaper everyday. Foxtrot, B.C., Hagar the Horrible, and Blondie etc.

Dagwood's wife Blondie is quite curvy and, dare I say, voluptuous. Still Dagwood never mentions anything about having sex with his wife even while laying in bed (which happens quite a few times). Rather Mr. Dagwood is more focused on eating sandwiches and napping. The same theme can be seen in Zits, the comic about teenagers. Many times Jeramey Duncan dreams of going out with Sara but never once did it mention sex.

Violence is also downplayed greatly. Beetle Bailey, the comic on soldiers and war, makes war seems as though it is fun by showing the funny pitfalls of commanders and their leaders. Hagar the Horrible constantly goes to war to raid various places but never in the strip to they mention death or suffering.

There still is one spot of refuge left for humor without the influx of dark influences.

-runiteking1

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