Has anyone pondered how we arrived at a time when gratuitous sex and violence is a day-to-day feature of life? Turn on the TV, go to the movies or buy a PC game and the thing that strikes you immediately is how did we get here?

The popularity of maim, kill and torture movies like 'Hostel', the free availability of videos on the Internet that once might be described as 'snuff' movies that show people being killed and the volume of freely available hard core pornography must surely be having an impact on society?

It wasn't long ago that some of the PC games now available for teenagers would have caused incredible controversy. Not now, it seems we simply now accept games depicting murder, drug dealing, crime and sex as simply fantasies.

But how did this happen? How did this all inadvertently creep up on us to the point that for man people all of this is acceptable? How is it that mainstream society now simply shrugs its shoulders and accepts it? When will the backlash begin?

I just want to know!