# What is so indecent about a woman's nipple? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 6, 2003, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-so-indecent-about-a-womans-nipple/153240 "2003-02-06T17:05:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FranticMad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c68b51/32.png) [@FranticMad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FranticMad)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-so-indecent-about-a-womans-nipple/153240/41 "2003-02-08T15:05:54Z")
Ever since women have been allowed to show their elbows in public, I haven’t been able to keep my mind on anything else. I stare at elbows all day. I’ve lost my job. I rob grocery stores for cash to buy fashion magazines. I’m now addicted to drugs and skin lotion. I’m leader of an anarchist cell that is fomenting social unrest. I play tennis. I advocate compulsory execution of anyone between the age of 28 and 31. And it’s all the fault of naked elbows, god help me! ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-so-indecent-about-a-womans-nipple/153240/42 "2003-02-08T16:57:34Z")
> [@](#): > > I rob grocery stores for cash to buy fashion magazines. But not the macaroni? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-so-indecent-about-a-womans-nipple/153240/43 "2003-02-08T16:59:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by something clever \* > \*\*holy shit you saw that too? I saw it a LONG time ago and every once awhile it pops into my head and the scene on the tv was so bizzare i couldnt remember if it was just something i made up, but now i know it was real… weird. > > i wanna know how they got the camera on the inside of the woman :eek: \*\* I haven’t seen that, but I heard that in order to get the “inner woman” shots they used a clear plastic dildo with a camera inside. Gotta love technology. ---
**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-so-indecent-about-a-womans-nipple/153240/44 "2003-02-08T18:25:25Z")
Cuppla things: Don’t know if its still the case but fairly recently the laws on New Orleans prohibited “uncovered nipples”. (Yes, New Orleans, sin city of the South.) Anyway, if you went to a strip club and got a table dance and got a good close-up view, you would notice something very strange. The dancer would have a tiny piece of clear plastic glued to her nipple in order to comply with the law. The guy that got the implants. . . I think it was Maxim that ran an article about him. Yes, it was a $100,000 bet and the guy kept them for at least an entire year to win the bet. He had a girlfriend that liked them but that’s another story. The magazine ran the story with a picture of the fake boobs and guess what? . . . they blacked out the nipples. Weird culture we live in! ---
**Author:** ![Shame\_s\_Joys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Shame\_s\_Joys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shame_s_Joys)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-so-indecent-about-a-womans-nipple/153240/45 "2003-02-08T20:28:07Z")
Haven’t you ever wanted to see a film twice? I wish I could support independent video stores, but there aren’t any around here. It’s either Blockbuster or nothing. I was curious to see _Romance_ again after it had left the theaters. The cuts made in the video ruined the film. (The same thing happened to the video of _Last Tango in Paris_.) In the most creative scene in _Romance_, a man is fucking a woman, then he pulls out and ejaculates all over her abdomen. The film suddenly cuts to a pregnant women getting gel squirted all over her abdomen for an ultrasound. It’s a very effective and striking juxtaposition. But with the ejaculation censored out of the video, the ultrasound gel scene is rendered pointless. As for the _Kama Sutra_ video, I did not get it from Blockbuster, I bought it from Amazon. Are all copies of the video censored in this way? Is it impossible to get a video of the original theatrical release version? Why do they do this to videos anyway? I didn’t get the _Kama Sutra_ video to look at one twat flash, you silly; I got it because I liked the whole movie. I was glad to see the recent flowering of Indian erotica in that sexually repressed, puritanical culture. It lasted all too briefly and is now heavily threatened by the Hindu fundamentalist fanatics who have taken over India. Back to the OP… Yeah, I agree that the current censorship rules are absurd. I think it’s because the culture is in a transitional period. The regulators are inept to keep up with the shifting cultural mores. If things were allowed to take their own course, America would soon drop all restrictions on nipples and maybe also dicks and twats. But now America has been taken over by the ultra-right wing, which is going to reimpose censorship wherever it can. Starting with the STATUE OF JUSTICE. ---
**Author:** ![BioHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@BioHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BioHazard)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-so-indecent-about-a-womans-nipple/153240/46 "2003-02-08T21:03:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SpazCat \* > \*\*I haven’t seen that, but I heard that in order to get the “inner woman” shots they used a clear plastic dildo with a camera inside. Gotta love technology. \*\* In the version I saw, they showed the guy ejaculating from the inside. My guess is that they used an endoscode(???) camera, I’m fairly certain it is cause the video looks like it. Anyway, I still don’t see the sense of bluring out the Ancient Art that showed penetration. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-so-indecent-about-a-womans-nipple/153240/47 "2003-02-09T09:05:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DeviantKat \* > **Settled by Puritans, are you really surprised that something so trivial would still be in the laws?** Not really true. The great majority of English settlers in the American colonies from the 17th century onward were ordinary Church of England followers, not Puritans. Even on the _Mayflower_, non-Puritans outnumbered the Puritans. The Puritan influence in early America was primarily on literary, not political, tradition. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-so-indecent-about-a-womans-nipple/153240/48 "2003-02-09T10:14:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Huerta88 \* > **Feminists have long complained of a supposed double standard in movies, whereby an R movie can have full frontal female nudity, but not generally male frontal (lower) nudity** Scores of “R”-rated movies have shown frontal male nudity. A sample: Robert Forster, _Medium Cool_ (1969) Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, and Christopher Gable, _Women in Love_ (1969) Gary Brockett, _The Last Picture Show_ (1971) Donald Sutherland, _Don’t Look Now_ (1973) Christopher Atkins, _The Blue Lagoon_ (1980) Richard Gere, _American Gigolo_ (1980) Julian Sands, Rupert Graves, and Simon Callow, _A Room With a View_ (1985) Kyle Maclachlan, _Blue Velvet_ (1986) John Malkovich, _The Sheltering Sky_ (1990) Tom Berenger, _At Play in the Fields of the Lord_ (1991) Lou Milione, _Six Degrees of Separation_ (1994) Eric Stoltz, _Naked in New York_ (1994) Liam Neeson, _Nell_ (1994) Leonardo DiCaprio, _Total Eclipse_ (1995) Kevin Bacon, _Wild Things_ (1998) To the contrary, _female_ genitalia (not just pubic hair) is almost never shown in an “R”-rated movie. ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-so-indecent-about-a-womans-nipple/153240/49 "2003-02-09T15:06:50Z")
There’s an early Tom Cruise film about him being a footballer when you can glimpse his schlong from a sideways view. Not quite full frontal, though. ---
**Author:** ![flex727](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@flex727](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flex727)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-so-indecent-about-a-womans-nipple/153240/50 "2003-02-09T16:55:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Walloon \* > \*\*Scores of “R”-rated movies have shown frontal male nudity. A sample: > > Robert Forster, _Medium Cool_ (1969) > Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, and Christopher Gable, _Women in Love_ (1969) > Gary Brockett, _The Last Picture Show_ (1971) > Donald Sutherland, _Don’t Look Now_ (1973) > Christopher Atkins, _The Blue Lagoon_ (1980) > Richard Gere, _American Gigolo_ (1980) > Julian Sands, Rupert Graves, and Simon Callow, _A Room With a View_ (1985) > Kyle Maclachlan, _Blue Velvet_ (1986) > John Malkovich, _The Sheltering Sky_ (1990) > Tom Berenger, _At Play in the Fields of the Lord_ (1991) > Lou Milione, _Six Degrees of Separation_ (1994) > Eric Stoltz, _Naked in New York_ (1994) > Liam Neeson, _Nell_ (1994) > Leonardo DiCaprio, _Total Eclipse_ (1995) > Kevin Bacon, _Wild Things_ (1998) > > To the contrary, _female_ genitalia (not just pubic hair) is almost never shown in an “R”-rated movie. \*\* How could you have forgotton Bruce Willis in _Color of Night_ (1994)? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-so-indecent-about-a-womans-nipple/153240.md?page=2)