"JJNJustin" <jjnjustin@aol.com> wrote in message
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> The reason the 70's sitcom "The Brady Bunch" had so much appeal for
> children
> and became a sort of phenomena is because the plots (especially in the
> early
> years), although dull predictable on the literal level, were highly
> charged
> with subconscious sexual cues concerning adolescent sexual development.
> You
> could even say subliminal messages, but this would imply that the writers
> knew
> what they were doing, which I dont think is case. Consequently, young
> children
> watched the show not only to help work out their own sexual issues, but
> also
> because the subconscious cues fed to them were quite arousing to the young
> mind. Watching the Brady Bunch once a week became their one hour a week
> sexual
> thrill, and allowed them to deeply freely explore and fantasize about
> sexual
> relationships between men and women, teenagers, children, and family
> members.
> These sexual cues ranged from being extremely simple and vague to
> extremely
> specific. All of them were on a metaphorical subscious level, so on the
> surface, the show seems harmless and mundane. In actuality, the simple
> plots
> were actually vehicles to tie on these highly charged sexual cues. Hence,
> the
> sexual content wasnt obvious to the civilized (repressed)adult, but to the
> imaginative young subscious, it proved exciting and thrilling enough to
> leave
> the young viewer yearning for a new episode each week. Twenty and thirty
> years
> later, when these now adults see re-runs of this show, it reminds them of
> time
> in their lives when their sexual curiousity was much more innocent and
> less
> repressed and conforming to society. These highly charged subscious sexual
> cues
> are why the show survived as long as it did and why still today there are
> Brady
> reunions, re-runs, books, and other nostalgic items concerning the show.
That, and the girls had nice butts.
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