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An old house, a geek, a cute transvestite, a very tall lesbian, and at least one ghost–what could happen? – Adult situations and artistic nudity. Not suitable for children.
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I may never understand… well alright, not agree with… some people’s aversion to allowing younger people view some tasteful, sex positive pornography (these are important conditions; I am not in favour of letting 9 year olds run free about the Internet) at whatever age they find their own curiosity about the subject.
I’m not sure I WANT to understand why some of the same parents are cool with their kids watching a grotesque splatter horror flick.
Think of it this way: which behavior would you be more upset that they should emulate… let’s even say at age 15 so it’s not considered “legal” by authority figures everywhere: making love in a mutually respectful manner… or going on a murder spree in response to comparatively minor slights?
To me, that’s a no-brainer. I worry about the parents who think that’s a toughie…
My understanding is that violence that wouldn’t even be PG13 in the states gets the equivalent of an R rating in Europe, while boobs are not a ratings issue and full frontal isn’t always an R rating there. Europeans are ok with nudity but not ok with school shootings, while in the US we have different priorities.
Have to agree – never understood the utter panic caused by the odd bit of nudity, let alone more, in so many people compared to the apparent indifference to showing violence and death. A certain Janet Jackson superbowl event comes to mind…
Part of the problem is the that society freaks out about the whole thing. I grew up in a time when parents thought pictures of the toddlers playing in the bathtub or the bare bottom baby on the bearskin rug was cute. Bathing or seeing each other without clothes was not a big deal in my family. Nudity does not equal sex, it just equals nudity. However, things have progressed where Child Protective Services can get called on you if it is found out that such things are taking place, and pictures of anyone under the age of concent is considered kiddie porn, no matter how innocent the circumstances under which the picture took place.
I can’t explain why people whom are upset by even the suggestion of sexual situations are okay with blatant violence and gore, that one never made the slightest sense to me.
FEDERAL law says family photos that have non-sexualised child nudity is fine, otherwise nudests/ naturist couldn’t take family photos. The problem is there’s no clear definition as to what that means, so people who want to freak out can even if it’s nothing.
What the law says and what sort of treatment you might get from CPS are two very different issues.
Also we now live in a time where nuisance lawsuits are used over and over (no matter how many times you win the case and have the charge dismissed) at a tactic to bankrupt and ruin the defendant.
That is supposed to be very illegal, for obvious reasons, but for some reason it gets handwaved if the defended is a political undesirable.
This is how they destroyed Backpage.com.
It has gotten so much worse, with the ill-conceived inclusion of the dangerously overhyped “Artificial Intelligence” into so many systems now.
A father of an infant boy, noticed during a diaper change that one of his son’s testicles has swollen up to twice it’s previous size. He took a picture of the inflammation, sent it to an on-duty Registered Nurse. The nurse forwarded it to a specialist pediatrician, who diagnosed the infection correctly and prescribed medicine that cured the inflammation within a few days.
I’d just like to pause at this point at point out an oddity: All of the humans in this story behaved reasonably, and no one tried to get someone else in trouble just because they could. Seems rare these days, yes? No one jumping at the chance to be a piece of shit? Nonetheless, it so happened.
Unfortunately, the tale doesn’t end there. Automated monitoring software that no one voluntarily installed, or even was really aware was on any of their devices, reported the father as “distributing child pornography”. The father was arrested, and the baby boy seized and kept from his family for weeks, and the father held in a jail for even longer. It would be more than a year before the whole matter was properly settled, because more faith has been put in a proven extremely error-ridden (something like a 84% error ratio, if I recall) broken computer algorithm, than in any of the sane and reasonable human beings involved in this “incident”.
Oh, that and the police, child services, and the judicial system are largely populated by the sort of humans that try to get other people into trouble just because they can, and jump at the chance to be a piece of shit.
I find that the good old U.S.A. seems to be the most hung-up about sex in the world. I also don’t understand why sex=bad yet gore and violence is OK.
My general response to the situation is that both the Brits and the Dutch kicked the hard corps Dissenters out, and those religious bigots ended up in New England just in time to become a major political power as Boston burgeoned.
Note that the folks transported to Australia a century and a half or so later are far more skin tolerant (well, except for ‘slip, slap, slop’ skin cancer prevention!).
That has been my theory for a while, too. I think the USA and Europe would overall have been better off, if that hadn’t happened. Better if we’d kept our own share of bigots at a manageable size, instead of letting them concentrate and multiply.