# Good lord. They blurred a dogs gonads on Discovery's Dirtiest Jobs. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 2, 2005, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-they-blurred-a-dogs-gonads-on-discoverys-dirtiest-jobs/329014 "2005-11-02T02:18:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-they-blurred-a-dogs-gonads-on-discoverys-dirtiest-jobs/329014/21 "2005-11-02T08:24:18Z")
> [@Seven](#): > > WTF? Correct me if I’m wrong but it is STILL A WOMANS NIPPLE! OK, you’re wrong. Post-op it’s a man’s nipple. I have as much fun as anyone else mocking mindless use of pixel censorship — but in this example, they actually got it right. I don’t agree with the imperative to censor out women’s breasts, but given that rule, the blur was consistent with reality. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-they-blurred-a-dogs-gonads-on-discoverys-dirtiest-jobs/329014/22 "2005-11-02T08:26:34Z")
> [@sturmhauke](#): > > beating the crap out of Japan so I can get their oil and build a starship to Alpha Centauri. “That’s a nice civilization you’ve got there. It would be too bad if something happened to it.” \ ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-they-blurred-a-dogs-gonads-on-discoverys-dirtiest-jobs/329014/23 "2005-11-02T08:47:56Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > OK, you’re wrong. Post-op it’s a man’s nipple. I have as much fun as anyone else mocking mindless use of pixel censorship — but in this example, they actually got it right. I don’t agree with the imperative to censor out women’s breasts, but given that rule, the blur was consistent with reality. But she wasn’t post-op _down there_. She was on hormones, had face hair, bulked up, and had a deep voice. But behind that fly it was all coochie baby. From what I could tell before the operation they just looked like flabby man boobs - which they show. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-they-blurred-a-dogs-gonads-on-discoverys-dirtiest-jobs/329014/24 "2005-11-02T09:25:14Z")
I think phalloplasty isn’t done in the majority of FTM surgeries. It’s way expensive and the results not always satisfactory. Trans boiz delete the boobs and grow the beard. Penetrative sports will still require a dildo. In the FTM scene, phalloplasty is an optional feature, not held as a standard that boiz must achieve to be able to call themselves men. They’re still men regardless of what they do or do not pack downstairs. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-they-blurred-a-dogs-gonads-on-discoverys-dirtiest-jobs/329014/25 "2005-11-02T09:34:40Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Probably, they did it because the dog got a stiffy, and they figured no one really needed to see a big red dog wang on their TV. Yes, in my opinion, if ever there was a time to censor something out, THIS would be the time to do it. Now, when it comes to blurring out boobies? That’s not quite such a good call. So I’ll reserve my anger for when they do that. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-they-blurred-a-dogs-gonads-on-discoverys-dirtiest-jobs/329014/26 "2005-11-02T13:19:25Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > Animals are pure, and aren’t complicated by such lustful things as desire or pleasure. Yeah. Right. Tell that to Isaac, my mom’s yellow lab, who lusts after me (even after being neutered). He doesn’t do anything about it, but he will sit and smile at me and get a doggie boner. I still can’t figure out whether it’s funny or disturbing or both. He’s a great dog, but I just don’t feel that way about him. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-they-blurred-a-dogs-gonads-on-discoverys-dirtiest-jobs/329014/27 "2005-11-02T15:42:45Z")
> [@Seven](#): > > I was expecting 8 little blur points for the nipples as well. Ten. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-they-blurred-a-dogs-gonads-on-discoverys-dirtiest-jobs/329014/28 "2005-11-02T15:56:50Z")
> [@whiterabbit](#): > > He’s a great dog, but I just don’t feel that way about him. But have you given him the “Let’s just be friends” speech? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-they-blurred-a-dogs-gonads-on-discoverys-dirtiest-jobs/329014/29 "2005-11-02T16:18:03Z")
> [@DeadlyAccurate](#): > > But have you given him the “Let’s just be friends” speech? 🙂 Actually, I have…no change. Oh well, I try to take it as a compliment… ---
**Author:** ![Cynical\_Optimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Cynical\_Optimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cynical_Optimist)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-they-blurred-a-dogs-gonads-on-discoverys-dirtiest-jobs/329014/30 "2005-11-02T16:51:40Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Probably, they did it because the dog got a stiffy, and they figured no one really needed to see a big red dog wang on their TV. So I guess this means Clifford won’t have a career in porn when his popularity fades? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2005, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-they-blurred-a-dogs-gonads-on-discoverys-dirtiest-jobs/329014/31 "2005-11-02T18:34:49Z")
Another DC program, “Going Tribal” often shows human men and women _gasp_ nekkid. How does a canine penis rate a pixel blip and a bunh of nude tribesmen do not? Who knows. An aside: A women I work with has a dog calendar up at her desk. One month showed an adorable male Peke. She was told to cover the penis or take the entire calendar down as ‘people’ had complained. She found some Post Its in almost a hunters orange and slapped one up there. If anything it drew your attention even more. ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-they-blurred-a-dogs-gonads-on-discoverys-dirtiest-jobs/329014/32 "2005-11-03T01:17:54Z")
It makes sense to me. I always have felt that dogs were too free with their anuses, but their dangling testicles are troublesome as well. You can train a dog, but you can’t teach them shame. More’s the pity, but thank goodness for the technology to at least blunt their terrible ways. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-they-blurred-a-dogs-gonads-on-discoverys-dirtiest-jobs/329014/33 "2005-11-03T01:29:43Z")
> [@vetbridge](#): > > Ten. See. Shows how much I know. I don’t even look at that part of a dog because it is dirty. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-they-blurred-a-dogs-gonads-on-discoverys-dirtiest-jobs/329014/34 "2005-11-03T04:16:28Z")
> [@Seven](#): > > The other night I caught part of Dr 90210. A woman in the process of turning to a man was having a breast reduction and reshaping. At first they blur the whole breast. After the breast meat is removed they just blur the nipples (but they can show the slab of bloody breast meat on the surgical table). Then the Doctor does a trim job on the nipple. They blur the nipple until it is trimmed, then they unblur it. Ewww. I wouldn’t want to watch any of that. But you’re right, if they’re going to show the rest of it, it’s silly to blur the nipple up until… > [@](#): > > America is prude. I blurring your dog. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-they-blurred-a-dogs-gonads-on-discoverys-dirtiest-jobs/329014/35 "2005-11-03T05:46:03Z")
> [@sturmhauke](#): > > Fuckin’ whatever. When I was a kid I used to see lions on PBS, rending the innards from wildebeests and making a giant pile of gore. I haven’t turned into a mass murderer or anything, unless you count beating the crap out of Japan so I can get their oil and build a starship to Alpha Centauri. > > Oh, right, I forgot that graphic violence is okey-dokey, but sex is a thought crime. Sex is the Devil’s work, intruding lustfully on God’s sacred procreation. If women see a dog running around with a hardon, pretty soon they will abandon their husbands and wave their asses at every dog in town. You know, when I see the word “dog penis,” my mind doesn’t immediatly jump to “sexually exciting.” Not that I’m judging! I’m very open minded, and if that’s your reaction, I’m cool with that. I’m just saying, I don’t really want to see a large, erect, dog penis on my television set. Similarly, I don’t really want to see, say, hatching insect larva, or thorassic surgery. It’s gross. Not icky-sexy, just icky-icky. Now, you want to show a \*human \*penis on TV, hell, I’m all for that. Television definetly needs more cock. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-they-blurred-a-dogs-gonads-on-discoverys-dirtiest-jobs/329014/36 "2005-11-03T05:53:09Z")
> [@Seven](#): > > But she wasn’t post-op _down there_. She was on hormones, had face hair, bulked up, and had a deep voice. But behind that fly it was all coochie baby. > > From what I could tell before the operation they just looked like flabby man boobs - which they show. A FtM is still considered a man though, if he’s been transitioning, and living as a man for a few years prior to surgery. What gets me though is that they’ll show all the blood and gore on those surgery channels, but they blur breasts and such. WHAT THE FUCK? On the other hand, I once saw on _Talk Soup_ a segment of a man inseminating a cow. They didn’t blur anything-and when he pulled his arm out it was covered in shit for some reason. > [@Miller](#): > > Now, you want to show a human penis on TV, hell, I’m all for that. Television definetly needs more cock. Preach it! ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-they-blurred-a-dogs-gonads-on-discoverys-dirtiest-jobs/329014/37 "2005-11-03T06:11:00Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > On the other hand, I once saw on _Talk Soup_ a segment of a man inseminating a cow. They didn’t blur anything-and when he pulled his arm out it was covered in shit for some reason. I’m guessing the cow didn’t appreciate being fisted, and crapped on the guy on the way out. ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-they-blurred-a-dogs-gonads-on-discoverys-dirtiest-jobs/329014/38 "2005-11-03T07:29:02Z")
> [@sturmhauke](#): > > I’m guessing the cow didn’t appreciate being fisted, and crapped on the guy on the way out. Or the guy was fired soon after for attempting to inseminate a bull. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-they-blurred-a-dogs-gonads-on-discoverys-dirtiest-jobs/329014/39 "2005-11-03T14:48:09Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > On the other hand, I once saw on _Talk Soup_ a segment of a man inseminating a cow. They didn’t blur anything-and when he pulled his arm out it was covered in shit for some reason. Possible TMI alert! Bovine insemination is a two-handed job. One hand is in the rectum up to the level of the elbow or so. That hand stabilizes the cervix by grabbing it through the wall of the colon. The other hand inserts the insemination pipette into the vagina and to/through the cervix. MOOOO! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-they-blurred-a-dogs-gonads-on-discoverys-dirtiest-jobs/329014/40 "2005-11-03T14:51:59Z")
**vetbridge** (a vet?) beat me to it. As everyone who’s watched or read James Herriot’s stories knows, country vets spend a lot of time with their arms up cow anuses – I suppose it allows you easy access to the interior without having to open anything up – for a variety of purposes. Nowadays I understand they make arm-length gloves and plastic sheaths so you don’t have to get covered in cow poop, but they used to go in bare-armed back then. And now, too, sometimes, I gather. This is why I went into optics. You don’t have to spend nearly as much time in a bovine intestine in this field. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-they-blurred-a-dogs-gonads-on-discoverys-dirtiest-jobs/329014.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-lord-they-blurred-a-dogs-gonads-on-discoverys-dirtiest-jobs/329014.md?page=3)