If you are a parent of a young child or hoping to become a parent very soon, there is one thing you can be sure of: there will be a fight between your standards of morality and decency and that of a morally declining society.
As a child, I was taught that a woman’s body is honourable, sacred and should always be respected. As a man, husband and father, I still hold strong to this teaching and will pass it on to my daughters.
Over the past decade, more and more females seem to wear less and less clothing in public, most of which is very seductive and enticing. These days we are seeing from children to even the over-50s participating in this distasteful practice.
My older daughter is only three, but from as early as two years old, my wife and I have been teaching her about modesty and decency, although society is quickly redefining what these terms mean. People tell me I am outdated and need to “get wid the flow”, but they fail to realise that righteousness exalts a nation and the further we step away from it, the faster we destroy the beauty of our people and country.
My heart burned and my eyes filled with tears as I saw the pictures and videos on Facebook of girls and women exposing their bodies and sexually gyrating on strangers in the name of fun, revelry and freedom. I am still lost for words and can’t find one single person to convince me that this is acceptable behaviour.
A woman wears a panty and a bra, goes on the streets, engages in sexual activity, money is exchanged and we label her a prostitute. On Monday at Kadooment, some women exchanged money for panties and bras, went on the streets, engaged in sexual activities and we label them revellers.
I saw some old videos of Kadooment and the women were wearing tights and what looked like sports bras. Today they wear a thong and a sticker on the nipples and body paint. A time is fast approaching where all they will wear is body paint. In my humble opinion, this is distasteful, sickening and just wrong. I find it so amazing that the men wear more clothing than the women.
Many parents and guardians take their little children to line the streets to observe the revellers as they pass. I would like to know exactly what it is they hope their children remember from the experience. You take your little ones to see partially naked women skinning out, twerking and being humped and fondled by random barebacked men. Why then are you surprised when at their birthday parties, school fairs and summer camps, you see them behaving the same way? It is a common thing to see children daggering and twerking at such events and shamefully, their parents are cheering them on.
There was an advertisement that basically said that showing or exposing a child to sexually explicit acts is a form of child abuse. Knowing the slackness that takes place from the Stadium to Spring Garden between men and women who are under the influence of alcohol and taking children to see it and teaching them it is part of our culture, is a dangerous practice and could be seen as child abuse.
With such an impressionable mind, we as adults and parents should be very wise about what we expose our children to. But here lies the problem. Who determines the standards of morality and decency in society? Is it faith-based organisations? Is it the Government? Is it society? Is it the Western countries?
As I close, I find it so amazing that Christians are criticised for going to church for about three hours, giving tithes, standing and worshipping God with flags, hands raised and singing songs under the direction of a worship leader. Why do those who under the direction of a DJ or an artist, for ten hours, raise hands, wave flags, sing songs, follow a truck for miles and have paint, powder and chocolate thrown on them don’t receive the same criticism?
At the end of the day, we both are worshipping. I know whom I am worshipping, the question is, do you?
• Corey Worrell is a former Commonwealth Youth Ambassador.
