Posted on 08/23/2012 9:26:21 AM PDT by Morgana
LOS ANGELES – Think family-friendly viewing times mean family-friendly content?
Maybe not.
The Parents Television Council (PTC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating parents about television content, has released a new study looking at nudity on prime-time broadcast television which reveals a major increase over the 2011-2012 season.
The study found that there were 76 incidents of full nudity on 37 shows compared to 15 incidents in 14 shows the previous ratings season, representing a 407 percent rise in incidents. Almost 70 percent of the scenes that featured such nudity were on shows which aired prior to 9pm, compared to 50 percent of the full nudity scenes which aired before 9pm during the 2010-2011 season.
In addition, the study says only five of the 76 full-nudity depictions contained an “S” descriptor to warn parents to the explicit nature of the episode.
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Lol Talking like we are good christians and ACTING like it are a very different thing. We may talk a good game but we sure dont follow through...
I call BS. Cable, on late prime, or HBO/Showtime/Prime/Cinemax during a movie maybe, but not network broadcast.
I have never even heard of, much less seen, any of those shows. Along with not paying for any premium channels I guess I have self-censored all the ‘nasty’ shows. Although I do know what they’re saying on Deadliest Catch in spite of the bleeps.
That’s always something I’ve wondered about; why the fuss on the naked body? Yes, we are not to incite lust, and awaken love before its time. However, we’re ok with showing someone getting their head blown off? It doesn’t make sense to me.
“Animal Planet” channel has been known to show full-frontal nudity.
No one is perfect... but, I WILL ask where you are coming from (not location, but thinking)..
Why question me, when you have just admitted that no one is perfect? What do you mean ‘Acting’? I don’t act... I will admit to my sins.
I ACT about nothing and to no one.. careful how you word things, it will come back and bite you.
Talk (to try to make things better) and follow through... you have a good point. I think this has been obvious for a LONG time, but the conservatives expected it to work itself (situation) out... NOT going to happen. We all need to stand up and make the point that we are NOT going to let the current ‘spokesman’ lead all of us over the cliff...
Honest question... HOW were the Whigs ran out? However it was done.. we need to do it again.
And, in the case of quadrupeds, full backsideal and undersideal nudity as well.
Actually, in 1982, it wasn’t entirely absurd to expect nudity in soaps in the near future. Before President Reagan was elected and things calmed down, there actually was full frontal nudity, non-pixelated, on broadcast television, as well as topless women, including a story on topless female boxing in South Africa on a 7:30PM New York City news broadcast and plenty of stuff on PBS ranging from unedited Masterpiece Theater episodes (I, Claudius, Therese Raquin, and Danger: UXB) shown at 9PM and 10PM to independent films shown late at night, including one showing a baby being born in graphic detail. The various networks were putting out feelers until President Reagan was elected. I’m not sure if his administration specifically clamped down or not, but you can look at what PBS was showing on Masterpiece Theater until 1980 and then after, for example, and see the difference.
I suppose I should also point out that I lived in Japan for a year in the late 1990s and that showed me two things. First, I had access to limited English-language television so wound up watching stuff carried by a satellite channel from the 1970s and 1980s, including things like CHiPs, and those shows weren’t bad despite being fairly clean. Second, the one year absence made it pretty clear to me just how much more permissive things became over a year, something I probably wouldn’t have noticed if I’d seen it happen more slowly over the course of a year.
There was actually quite a bit of nudity, including full frontal nudity, on PBS in the late 1970s and 1980 before President Reagan took office. Watch the shows they had, unedited, on Masterpiece Theater at the time — I, Claudius, Therese Raquin, and Danger: UXB to give three examples.
6300%? Someone need to brush up on their math skills.
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