Please Give This "Made Men" Blurb Some Context

[HeyHomie]

This Yahoo article mentions a scene in Mad Men in which a pre-teen actress

@Linked Yahoo Article

convincingly sell[s] a scene about getting caught exploring her own body.

I’m a little confused. I’m not a prude (far from it), but the idea of a basic cable TV show doing such a daring scene without there being tons of righteous indignation about it from the right*, doesn’t add up.

What’s the context?

*FULL DISCLOSURE: I’m not trying to make a political jab in CS. It’s just that whenever there’s righteous indignation about something in popular culture, usually it comes from the right.

ETA: I’ve never seen an episode of Mad Men, in case it isn’t obvious.

[Fear_Itself]

Don & Betty’s daughter starts acting out when their marriage falls apart. The little girl is caught masturbating:

On “Mad Men,” young Sally Draper (played by 11-year-old Kiernan Shipka) is caught masturbating on the sofa at a friend’s house.

The friend’s mother drives her home and informs Sally’s mother that under no circumstances would she allow Sally to pollute her household. Sally’s mother later asks her daughter, “What’s wrong with you?”

[Miss_Mapp]

If that’s the scene they’re referring to, you don’t actually see anything. Sally is sitting on the sofa in a darkened room, watching TV (a scene from The Man from UNCLE, in which David McCallum is chained up). There’s a close-up of her hands on her knees, scrunching her nightgown (but not pulling it up), then a close-up of her face–then the lights suddenly come on and the mother shouts something along the lines of “What are you doing?”