Is Censorship In The Media Necessary?

Have you ever been listening to the radio, humming along to a song, or singing if you know all the words…only to hear a huge beep in the middle of a lyric?

Censorship is everywhere in the media. Programmes after 9pm at night are for adult’s eyes only.

Children cannot take certain books out of the library because they have to be of a certain age to read them, films have age certificates for the cinema, so for example a 12 year old cannot see a certificate 15 film at the cinema, however they can easily go round their ‘mates’ house and watch it there, illegally.

Society is trying to protect its minors from bad words and shocking scenes yet we still have an enormous crime rate, thousands of teenage pregnancies and high anti social teenage behaviour.

Censoring may be working the opposite way in the media. Children’s access to the internet is easier now than before, and youngsters are learning so-called ‘grown up stuff’ younger than they ever have been…So is censorship really working? It seems to me that half the media is censored and the internet is not, surely it’s better to censor everything or nothing? Otherwise inappropriate words, scenes and images will only leak through the censor sieve that the government is trying to use.

Maybe if children were not shielded from swear words and adult scenes in films then they might not seek to find out adult information.

Most children are now discovering the facts of life and the business of ‘the birds and the bees’ long before their PSHE lessons at primary school.

Children are longing to grow up quicker; 12 year olds now wear three layers of foundation, high heels and short skirts. The last generation of children still wore ankle swingers and took rucksacks to school

The legal age for consent, for a teenager to lose their virginity is 16; however most teenagers are actually just children when they do.

So the question I’m asking is: is censorship really that necessary after all?