BET Personality and Street Lit Publisher to Young Adults: Sex is Supposed to Feel Good?in its Proper Context
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) February 20, 2008 -- The church often says to just say no to sex. Racy celebrities and most of popular entertainment say exactly the opposite. Young people are being caught up in the middle.
According to Jeff Johnson from BET's "Meet the Faith" and the critically acclaimed "The Cousin Jeff Chronicles," frustration and confusion related to the church's stance on controversial issues can run deep, particularly among young African-Americans.
"Many young people have committed to finding the right answers about sex, but when churches are afraid to talk honestly about sex, almost demonizing young people for having feelings that are natural, then that is problematic," says Johnson on darkstreetlit.com. "Young people are being told what they are feeling is wrong as opposed to how do we help you deal with these feelings, how do we help you not throw your life away by giving your body to someone who doesn't deserve it when you are not emotionally prepared to be in that relationship. And those are the kind of conversations I don't see happening in the church."
Publisher Clymel E. Thomas saw a need. Tired of how controversial social issues were presented in the church as well as in secular media: Sex, racial conflicts, and violence were either ignored entirely, or glorified into caricatures of reality, respectively, so he started darkstreetlit.com as an alternative to the two extremes. The website attempts to present honest and unfiltered views of street life; not hiding from it, not glamorizing it either.
"Sometimes the only way to preach to an audience is not to preach," says Thomas. "Not too many preachers deliver sermons as frank as some elements of honest hip-hop or well written Street Lit; but maybe they should."
The wide ranging conversation that includes real talk about sex and the church; violence in the streets; and whether Will Smith, Tavis Smiley and Chris Rock are sell-outs can be heard in its entirety on www.darkstreetlit.com.
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