Might I step in and mention that "Tits Ahoy!’ would make an incredible name for a rock band?
As to the OP, I’ve never figured out why they don’t show them. Good Lord, they’re breasts fer cryin’ out loud. Pretty much everyone has them; what’s the big mystery? The weirdest breast thing I’ve ever seen on tv has got to be a commercial for Mr. Bubble, IIRC. Two little kids in a bathtub, maybe four years old. Both with short, dark hair. They look identical; gender of either would be impossible to determine except one is wearing a one-piece tanktop swimsuit!
That gets a serious ‘WTF’ from me. Now we’re having kids wear clothes in the bathtub??? Mustn’t see those little four-year-old girlnipples (which would be identical to four-year-old boynipples–which are allowed, it would seem). What the hell’s the point here?
…&no, I’m not complaining about not getting to see them (but thanks eversomuch for asking), but why did someone feel it was necessary to cover them up? Doesn’t wearing a swimsuit kind of make bathing a bit difficult? Do people actually do this? What about the boynipples? Pervs like them, too, don’t they? Is there something I’m not grasping, here?
There was a good thread about the “boy nipple” question not too long ago. It’s a mystery to many. It’s a shame to me that women are still not allowed the same rights as men. Women have even been harassed for breast-feeding in public for cryin’ out loud. It’s another reminder of how far we have to go.
BTW, when NBC aired “Schindler’s List” they showed the scenes where all the women were in the shower afraid they were about to be gassed (although that scene was not even remotely sexual)
Lizard
Why should there be naked breasts on national television?
To give the viewers a more realistic view of reality?
Since when has it been the practice of the television gods present anything to its viewers as real . . . dramatization is as close as they dare, but it is not real.
There are already too many available venues that can be accessed by adults(AND CHILDREN) to view naked breasts. Why encourage more degredation of our American Society.
Todays kids are growing up physically far faster than we did, leaving their emotional and mental maturity behind.
Example:
More kids under the age of 18 are having sex and getting pregnant.
In Ohio, there are over fifty(50) juvenile sex offenders waiting in an intake prison to be placed in an institution that serves sex offenders(population 290), not to mantion the countless county detention centers waiting to send their youth to the intake prison.
Enough said, if you wish to see breasts, get cable, go channel surf, get married. You can choose. The human body is a very beautiful creation. One should enjoy the pleasures that it has to offer.
BUT
Don’t infect the youth of our country with increased imorality. Expand their minds, not their sexual fantasies.
Just wanted to reiterate this point. Yes, we see bare breasts on shows like Shaka Zulu and The Gods Must be Crazy. But when are we gonna see Katie Couric shakin’ it down?
I agree. It’s funny. But as i’ve said before, I can’t type worth a damn so I just hack away and you get what you get. I’m not checking this stuff before I send it out. It just takes to long. And I went to public school in LOUISIANA so you can’t expect to much.
bit of a hijack:
when i was in france (where the naked ladies dance), i seen Hardcore-with-a-capital-H porn, including watersports and felching, on regular TV in the middle of the day, and was duly impressed.
Of course, it may have been an “anthropological documentary.”
It just cracks me up that they say SHIT and TWAT on BBC. Does twat have a different meaning there than in the US? There was this cartoon on Big Train that showed a guy’s penis flopping around. I just love their humor. Thank God for the BBC.
For the record, bare breasts have been shown on network TV, and in prime time, and on purpose. The 1994 Meredith Baxter made-for-TV movie My Breast, a film about breast cancer, showed more skin than had ever been allowed previously. It was quite a big deal back when that movie was aired, but as I recall there wasn’t much of an outcry, seeing as it was appropriate for the subject matter.
I’d like to insert a note here about the Puritanism level in my city: many people complained when the University Medical Center erected a billboard on the “loop” that circles the city that shows doctors examining a mammogram. It’s a freakin’ X-ray, and people complained. Takes all kinds…
Just had to challenge this one point. According to very recent studies teenage pregnany has actually gone down (in fact it is at a lower rate than the 40’s when they started doing these studies).
Oh yeah, maybe it would be a bit of a hijack, but I should mention that I watched people actually get beaten, shot, and killed on network television (as opposed to dramatic enactments). I think we (in the US) have a much bigger problem with violence than people having too much sex (God forbid!).
On some independent channels. At least it was like this back in the '80s. I watched Death Race 2000 on KPLR TV in St. Louis, uncut. It was a prime time showing (“with limited commercial interruption!”). Definately breasts and muff in the massage room scene. They also aired the TV show Bizarre (a Benny Hill type revue) which always had some titty.
One of the independent channels (ch. 30) in Jacksonville, FL similarly did not censor what they aired. The other (ch. 24) had some sort of religious affiliation (or at least showed primarily religious and family shows), and did not follow the no-censor situation.
Again, this was 15 years ago. I have no idea how ‘community standards’ play out now on these or other independent channels.
In Britain there is a teens magazine which features a ‘Position of The Fortnight’, as well as all sorts of “Mens’ magazines” with bare breasts therein.
People who think like cavsct have dirty minds. I mean, think about it: all breasts are just giant feedbags, when you get right down to it. People should stop acting like the human body is a dirty thing, and something to be ashamed of.
That said, I’m not about to bare MY peaches on national tv…I’m too shy. But it doesn’t mean that nudity is dirty.
Is Michaelangelo’s David perverted?
Ohmigod, now I have to sit here with a mental image of Katie Couric, naked, in my head. Thank you so much, Green Bean. And she’s just so, so–perky. And she’s naked. And she’s still so perky.EEWWWW!!
[small hijack]
I remember reading many years ago in Gene Roddenberry’s The Making of Star Trek that, according to Gene, Standards & Practices told the costume designer that he could show as much tit as he wanted but no nipple, and ALSO that he couldn’t show the underside of the breasts, only top cleavage. As I recall, the way Gene put it was, “What, do they think moss grows there or something?”
Spielberg’s flick about life in concentration camps showed complete front & rear nudity on tv…
On thing, black women can show their breasts when white women can’t. You know they do newshows on natives with bare just about anything & its perfectly alright. Hmmmm. what’s up?
Ah yes, I’d forgotten about that, thanks for reminding me, handy. Schindler’s List was shown on NBC in complete and uncut form, in prime time, without commercial interruptions (courtesy of the Ford Motor Company, although there were a few short intermissions with an onscreen countdown clock). The movie included full frontal nudity involving both genders.
Still, Schindler’s List and even My Breast were exceptions, granted special permission to overstep the ordinary bounds of FCC “decency”. When nudity will become unexceptional, I dunno.
People like cavsct107 are why it will take much longer than you would think.
These are the people who cannot separate nudity and sexuality.
These are the people who verbally attack breastfeeding mothers when they feed their kids anywhere but someplace hidden away.
These are the people who made sure that the little girl’s “girlnipples” were covered in the bathtub and not the boy’s “boynipples”.
These are the same types of people who are up-in-arms over people taking photos of their babies when they are not fully covered up. You know, the ones who think that the funny snapshot of your toddler (the one in the tub with his hair styled into a shampoo mohawk while he is singing into the bar of soap) qualifies as child pornography and labels you an unfit parent who is contributing to the “degredation of our American Society.”
Also, as far as this goes,
I am fairly certain that the way to stop and prevent these things is not to continually express and insist to our children that sex is dangerous, forbidden, taboo, and secret.
However, I do happen to somewhat agree with this position
I feel like nudity just for the sake of ratings (while not immoral and contributing to the downfall of civilization) is just obnoxious. I mean, try writing a better story if you want more viewers.
