# 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:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**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 15, 2004, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/41 "2004-12-15T14:40:03Z")
> [@Skopo](#): > > Actually, there _were_ some bare female nipples on display–specifically, a pair belonging to the woman dressed as the [Minoan Snake Goddess](http://www.athens2004.com/en/ceremonyImgallery/redirect?date=8b2734e54c85ef00VgnVCM10000028130c0aRCRD&channel=ceremonyImgallery&cpage=1&lang=en). She was evoking the image of this particular artwork: [http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~bruceh/cc307/minoan/images/co.jpg](http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~bruceh/cc307/minoan/images/co.jpg) Enough is enough. In the name of family values, it is time to cancel all further Olympics. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/42 "2004-12-15T17:20:54Z")
> [@Skopo](#): > > Personally, what I found offensive about NBC’s coverage wasn’t the ceremony itself (which I found very beautiful and, as an art historian, great fun to watch)–what offended me was Katie Couric and Bob Costas’s godawful commentary. Ugh. Oh god, I had managed to supress the memory of those two idiots, and here you are bringing it up again. 😛 BTW, I loved the opening ceremonies. I didn’t realize they had been edited for the US, but even if they hadn’t it sure wouldn’t have bothered me. ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/43 "2004-12-15T17:30:06Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > Hell, TNT aired a swimsuit special a couple of years ago that featured a bunch of supermodels wearing nothing but body paint. There wasn’t an FCC investigation over _that._ > > Remind me…if I ever conquer the planet, to have all the networks broadcast _Caligula_ and _Kill Bill_ back to back, uncut, for about a month. That should get everyone desensitized enough not to complain about a glance of a painted-over nipple in the future. 😃 I believe that TNT is a cable channel and thus is regulated differently. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/44 "2004-12-15T17:41:59Z")
[QUOTE=Jervoise] 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. [QUOTE] And let us not forget the important tradition of oiling oneself and one’s fellow competitors. All over. (I think it was somewhere in Plato’s _Gorgias_ where Socrates basically disses those who ‘neglect to oil the lower half of their body’, to paraphrase. Can’t be bothered to look it up now, sorry.) ---
**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 15, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671/45 "2004-12-15T19:35:44Z")
> [@NinjaChick](#): > > And let us not forget the important tradition of oiling oneself and one’s fellow competitors. All over. > > (I think it was somewhere in Plato’s _Gorgias_ where Socrates basically disses those who ‘neglect to oil the lower half of their body’, to paraphrase. Can’t be bothered to look it up now, sorry.) NinjaChick, just because it was written a long time ago, that doesn’t mean it’s not PORN!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indecency-complaints-about-the-olympics-opening-ceremony/279671.md?page=2)