Thus the L-shaped sheet…it goes up to the neck on the woman and up to the waist on the man.
No, your way is better.
Another acolyte. Spread my words, grasshopper.
I’m trying not to be annoyed at what seems to be sloppy reading by some posters.
YES, I’m aware that P&V are NOT forbidden words, YES, I know that they are the actual clinical words, the question is how come broadcasters get away with mentioning them in a non clinical way. I’m sure at some point during Friends, Chandler and Joey used the word penis in a jokingly manner.
Now, reading Kunilou’s post (thanks) explains a lot. It seems it could be called indecent, hence Viewer Discretion is Adviced by the Metatron.
As to sounding more vulgar - compare these sentences and think that a three year old girl says them:
Mommy, Eddie showed me his peepee.
Mommy, Eddie showed me his penis.
This amuses me.
This and the fact that the L-shaped sheet turns into a toga for the woman when she has to get out of bed.
What woman who’s just had sex takes the entire sheet with her when she gets out of bed? And even if she doesn’t get out of bed, when she sits up she holds the sheet over her chest…? Like now that the horizontal tango is over, she’s as modest as a Victorian maiden?
I wish directors, particularly TV directors, were a little more creative in covering up female bits…just b/c the usual methods are so dorky it’s distracting. Put her on her stomach. Do more closeups. Use her knees instead of the sheet. SOMETHING.
Re: the OP, I think TV censorship is both amusing and random, as it is in radio…the song called “Bitch” by Meredith-Whoever came out like ten years ago (“I’m a bitch, I’m a lover, I’m a child, I’m a mother” etc.) and was never edited out out on any radio station I ever heard.
But Katy Perry has a new single out right now wherein she says “You PMS like a bitch” and the “bitch” is ALWAYS edited out on the radio.
Can someone explain this to me?
In the US, not all television dialogue is spoken by three year old girls. Compare these two sentences and think that an adult says them:
Mona, I just saw Eddie’s penis.
Mona, I just saw Eddie’s peepee.
Which is ickier now?
Daniel
The word “penis” wasn’t used much until the Bobbit case. Kind of difficult to describe what Lorna did without using it.
No, but you did remind me of the song ‘Because I Got High’, which I once had the misfortune of hearing a radio edit of. If you have to literally bleep out one word a line, you might wanna reconsider if you really should be airing that.
Thanks to groundbreaking sketches like this one?
Also the encounter between Leonardo di Caprio and Vera Farmiga in The Departed, in which Leo has his trousers down just barely enough to be able to get his pecker out, as if this were just a routine urination or something. She keeps her panties on and I’m not sure she she’s even topless. It’s all rather silly.
I should point out to the OP that the movie rating system here is industry-directed, however. It’s not through fear of government sanctions that fims are generally so prudish, but through fear of diminished audience due to audience elimination (teenagers), and possible reluctance of exhibitors in some markets (e.g. Salt Lake City) to offer more realistic fare to their audiences.
Countries with free enterprise and freedom are a dime a dozen. Sweden tho, is the only natural habitat of the free range swedish chick.
You will find sir, that we win.
There’s a long list of forbidden words. The list varies in length depending on the rating of the particular show, when it airs, on which network it airs, etc. The list also varies by context - penis and vagina as medical terms on a doctor or csi drama are more acceptable than penis and vagina as epithets. “You are such a pussy” is likely to be forboden, yet “here pussy cat” and “look at the lovely pussy willow” are fine. Given any particular list, each year more words on that list become acceptable and are taken off the list. Given all of these variables, combined with the whims of standards and practices, and writers who try to get away with pushing the limits in sneaky ways, ‘penis’ and ‘vagina’ may or may not be forbidden depending on what you are watching.
This is possible? Can you explain it to us Americans? Because most of us are stumped by it.
I have absolutely no insight as to why the FCC chooses which words are forbidden and which are not. But I know that at some point in the past ten years or so that “penis” was one of the forbidden. I was recently watching a DVD episode of Friends where the directors were commentating in the background. The scene is Phoebe is letting Chandler know that a girl is checking him out, then walks away and says “I think I’m ready for my penis now.” And the directors chuckled and said they included the line because the FCC had just then lifted the ban on “penis.”