Your last comment is really naive. As a society, we make all sorts of rules and laws that govern our lives. That’s what a society is. Our gov’t is representative of us and we elect them to make up these rules. We don’t allow porn to be show on mainstream TV, nor do we allow commercials for sex toys. There are all sorts of rules for TV.
Your comment is pretty much “anything goes”. And if that’s really how you feel, stay in Chicago where you can do no harm.
I was addressing Rep. Moran’s concern that he’d be in the soup if one of his grandkids asked him what ED is. If he can’t figure that one out on his own, then I question his fitness to make up rules for the rest of us. But I do more than that. I question whether what he is proposing is even proper role of government. Few, including me, question restricting access to pornography. It is not appropriate for youngsters; plenty of people are offended by it; plenty of others are harmed by it. We know what we have there and we have made laws to restrict it. Fine. How can you equate these ads with pornography? They are going to be a bit sensuous due to the nature of the product. But they are no where near the most extreme examples of that on regular, TV. Have you seen a soap opera or a Lifetime movie lately? Or something like “The Family Guy” or one of those dating shows? Are they the next in the goverment’s spotlight? I would hope not. I say people who don’t want to see them shouldn’t watch them and, if they have children, they should take the necessary steps to see to it that their children don’t watch. Just as they take steps to protect their children, as best as they can, against the other hazards of the world.
Now, I’ve managed to raise three sons to be fine, principled, and upstanding young men. They were all Boy Scouts and are regular church attenders. My wife and I have managed to get through all of the crises and uneasy moments of parenthood without having to tap into the vast and superior wisdom of members of Congress.
If you think Chicago is “anything goes,” then you know nothing about the place. Moran resembles nothing so much as he does your average Chicago alderman, finding any little thing that offends them and passing an ordinance against it. I’m living in the belly of the nanny state beast! You ought to come for a visit. You might like it.