The Doritos commercial from Sunday's Super Bowl with the boy telling the boyfriend to keep his hands of his mother was helpful in my seventh grade class as I was summarizing each of the ten commandments.
One child asked, "What is 'lust'?", which was the word I used to summarize the ninth commandment (Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife).
"Lust is what happened at the beginning of that video when the mother's boyfriend stared at her tail end as she pranced out, and perhaps she caused it by her strut. The boy noticing the lust gets angry and drops the game controls. Then he slaps the man, in part, for the lust, and says 'keep your hands off my momma!...'"
Everyone who has reached the age of reason (football fans included) should know that it is wrong to look at people in a dirty way and it is wrong to provoke impure looks by one's immodest attire and or manner. However, it is difficult to convey this truth to the adolescents needlessly making them curious or getting them excited. That commercial was a useful and sufficient tool to that end! Thank you Doritos!
Here is the link for the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bptmb0Ygmus
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