# Indecency complaints about the Olympics opening ceremony. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 13, 2004, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671 "2004-12-13T22:35:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dog80](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/1 "2004-12-13T22:35:57Z")
> **[Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines](https://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=%2Fnm%2Ftelevision_fcc_dc)** > > The latest news and headlines from Yahoo! News. Get breaking news stories and in-depth coverage with videos and photos. > [@](#): > > The Aug. 13 tape-delayed broadcast featured a pregnant woman and a man and a woman performing interpretative dances around the history of Athens and Greece. According to photographs on the Athens 2004 Web site, the ceremony also included statues of naked men, though it wasn’t clear whether those were broadcast. I can understand about the nekkid stachoos and the “interpretative” dance, but what the heck is indecent about a pregnant woman? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/2 "2004-12-13T22:45:28Z")
If she was pregnant, it means she had sex.:rolleyes: All kidding aside, the article doesn’t say what prompted the indecency complaint. The sentance about the pregnant woman was just describing the contents of the tape that was requested. The complaint could very well have nothing to do with her. ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/3 "2004-12-13T22:45:34Z")
Here’s a slightly longer story: [http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Olympics-indecency-probe/2004/12/12/1102786931195.html?oneclick=true](http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Olympics-indecency-probe/2004/12/12/1102786931195.html?oneclick=true) (Which also shows a clear photo of the statue costumes complete with fake penes. :D) I can’t find anything offensive about real wangs in an artistic context, much less tiny plaster of paris versions. Ditto the occasional booby or pregnant belly. Did these people complain at the Sydney Olympic closing ceremony, which featured an obviously phallic gigantic camera lense “extending” in recognition of Elle Macphearson? ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/4 "2004-12-13T22:49:35Z")
He hee hee. When watching the ceremony, I thought “some stupid Americans will freak over this”, then immediately told myself I was being too harsh. ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/5 "2004-12-13T22:59:57Z")
I, for one call for a return to the Olympic Games’ historic and moral roots, a time where athletes competed with honour and dignity completely in the buff. Come to think of it, you’d probably catch more meat and veg shots watching those spandex-clad guys in Olympic wrestling, or the jiggling, bouncing, sausage-fest that is Olympic sprinting. ---
**Author:** ![GawnFishin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GawnFishin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GawnFishin)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/6 "2004-12-14T00:22:04Z")
> [@Jervoise](#): > > **completely in the buff**. I would become the biggest fan of womens wrestling. 😛 And demand a complete and uninterupted telecast. ---
**Author:** ![liirogue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/7 "2004-12-14T00:57:07Z")
[geek moment]Are those “statues” supposed to mimic the Kouros statues (example of one [here](http://www.ancient-greece.org/images/art/kouros/pages/07kroisos_jpg.htm))? Warning, statue nudity! :eek: [/geek moment] ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/8 "2004-12-14T01:57:36Z")
Has anybody complained about the lesbian sex scene that occurred right after the Americans won the women’s beach volleyball contest? I mean, they embraced, they rolled around in the sand, and the position they wound up in was major lesbo-missionary. Uh, not that I’M conplaining. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/9 "2004-12-14T02:27:08Z")
Could have been a lot worse. At least America did not have to look at a nipple during the stadium festivities. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/10 "2004-12-14T02:48:45Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Could have been a lot worse. At least America did not have to look at a nipple during the stadium festivities. Yeah, that would have destroyed our moral fiber good. ---
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/11 "2004-12-14T02:53:54Z")
> [@GawnFishin'](#): > > I would become the biggest fan of womens wrestling. 😛 > And demand a complete and uninterupted telecast. Imagine what the ratings would be on womens gymnastics. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/12 "2004-12-14T03:12:52Z")
> [@Blalron](#): > > Imagine what the ratings would be on womens gymnastics. Ew, creepy! Little girl bodies! My brain needs a good bleaching now. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/13 "2004-12-14T03:28:35Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > Yeah, that would have destroyed our moral fiber good. Ms Jackson’s wizened nipple would hardly have caused a ripple on the moralfiberometer. One hopes that the hullaballoo that was manufactured and sustained afterwards would have registered. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/14 "2004-12-14T03:50:23Z")
So nobody complained about the ceremonial lighting of the giant doobie? ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/15 "2004-12-14T04:04:41Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Could have been a lot worse. At least America did not have to look at a nipple during the stadium festivities. Sure they did. Each of those naked man-statues has \*one \* penis… but **two** exposed nipples! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/16 "2004-12-14T04:18:15Z")
> [@Blalron](#): > > Imagine what the ratings would be on womens gymnastics. You do know the [etymology of ‘gymnastic,’](http://65.66.134.201/cgi-bin/webster/webster.exe?search_for_texts_web1828=gymnastic) right? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/17 "2004-12-14T10:17:39Z")
I wish someone would complain about the Christian Right’s corncob fetish. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/18 "2004-12-14T11:44:55Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > I wish someone would complain about the Christian Right’s corncob fetish. Simple really. Sex is a sin unless you are married. Thinking about sex with people other than your wife/husband is a sin. Viewing nudity in any form (real, statue, suggested) can lead you to thoughts of sex and therefore sin. Worse yet, seeing a penis can lead you to thoughts of homosexual sex which is a bigger sin nad gets you sent to a deeper level of hell (the Pauly Shore wing). So what you get is a bunch of people with crucifixes up their cornholes fighting every natural urge their body has until the sexual tension gets builit up to the point where someone has to pay for every corncob or other minorly phallic symbol they’ve ever had to view. Personally, I wish I could muster enough outrage at stuff like this to sue someone. Daddy needs a new pair of shoes 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/19 "2004-12-14T12:35:20Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#): > > seeing a penis can lead you to thoughts of homosexual sex which is a bigger sin **nad** gets you sent to a deeper level of hell Tell me this was intentional. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/20 "2004-12-14T12:46:04Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Tell me this was intentional. > > 😃 Why yes…of course it was… That’s it. Just play it cool and noone will realize what a moron you are… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671.md?page=2)