Perversion: It's not Just for the Elite Anymore

American pop culture has always worked by the trickledown effect. In the 30s, they made light comedies in which wealthy men in top hats and women in spangles talked lightly of their divorces. It helped to make divorce a popular idea and opened the way for ordinary Joes to destroy their families too. In the 60s, the upper classes embraced the drug culture, paving the way for the middle and lower classes to embrace it too. The Upper class could afford rehab and then write the books about their glorious transformation into Deeper People. The lower classes were stuck with addiction and destroyed lives. Now we've got Britney tongue wrestling with Madonna on the tube and the lower classes are again taking their cues from the upper class on experimentation with various forms of polymorphous perversity.

Hey! What could it hurt?