Thought I was going to have fun…but…this is the least sexually charged thread in the pit.
Oh, well, live and learn. :smack:
My wife (a nurse) was watching the Labor & Delivery show on TLC or Discovery (I forget which one. I’m not a fan.).
They blurred the genitals of the woman giving birth. This pissed my wife off so much that she wanted to write a letter, but she didn’t. The censorship offended her, just like seeing a naked body somehow offends some Christians. So it goes both ways.
The only difference is that some ultra-religious types get really obsessed with stuff like this, so they spend their retirement years writing letters to networks every time they see a stray tit or pair of buttocks on television.
I’d guess what most people want these days is less censorship. You think the number of pious, old, windbag, letter-writers exceeds the number (and purchasing power) of horny, young males who want to see tits on basic cable after midnight? Very few of the pro-nudity people, however, are willing to go to the trouble to write a letter about it, much less boycott the advertisers of a show that’s censored.
Cable networks sometimes seem to try to adjust their programming to entice the young males, but still quell the wails of the prudes, often in amusing and misleading ways. For instance, I was once flipping through the channels and stopped for a couple moments on MTV’s Spring Break Uncensored for some reason (certainly not entertainment value). The crowd of pretty people on the show was rather exited, and one fiesty coed took it opon herself to please the men by removing her bikini top, revealing a beauiful, lucious … flesh-colored blur. Huh? What was the name of the show again?
MTV is the most inconsistent with their censorship. Sometimes pot leaves get blurred, sometimes not. The video for “Gin and Juice” by Snoop Dogg didn’t seem to raise any red flags for the censors when it showed snoop driving a car down the street drinking what was obviously an alcoholic beverage (a fact that’s verbally made reference to in the chorus of the song, so there can be no confusion there).
When I do flip past MTV nowadays, which is rare, and if they are showing videos, which is even rarer, they’re invariably rap videos that have almost every other word silenced out. These are words that every person in this country has heard numerous times, and words that the viewer will obviously hear if they like the song enough to buy the CD, but somehow those words are so evil, so damaging to our fragile souls, that instead the songs must be butchered beyond recognition before broadcast.
What the hell is wrong with people?
Bob Woodward has an interesting and semi-funny section on the Justice’s viewing of porn in his book The Brethren.
There are/were 1 or 2 days a year when the justices and their law clerks would convine in the basement and watch the porno films that were exhibits in the various cases on the odcket. Thurgood Marshall had some very funny lines.
I don’t know what the court does these days, but I don’t recall the court hearing any obscenity cases the last few years.