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.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
In Tokyo and Nagano, kiddie porn posession is legal.
Plus watch any anime and kids and sex will be included almost in all of them.
Japan is pervert land
networks can show nudity
there was that cop show with Rick Shroeder that showed a “dead” nude girl in all its glory
Thank you for bringing that up too... I would have been backhanded for saying something like ‘butt’ when I was growing up :p
Today, it seems normal to say words such as “b*tch”, “@ss”, “d@mn”, “sh*t”, on tv (I download TV series and watch a lot of newscasts on net..
Any of those words would have gotten me a big spanking and about 1 month of grounding.
Honestly, scary how the Communist Manifesto worked it’s way into our society :/
As far as I know, the CP was made illegal in 1999... not sure about the anime/manga part.. I was never into that stuff. BUT, I will say, when I went to a bookshop when I first came here, I was crapping lava-bricks when I saw, on an end-cap, a book with a nude kid on the front cover :/
I am more comfortable now since it is now illegal..
On a side-note (involving anime/manga), it hurts so much to see 30yo-50yo men reading comics on the train (and yes, most are sexual... and kids can see what they are reading).. Speaking of that.. up until about 2007, many of the advertisements on the trains were sexual, including “loli-con”.. Thankfully, that stuff stopped a few years ago.
The linked article has a screen-cap from some show with strategic blurring. Close enough. Blurred, blacked-out, pixellated — same effect.
SnakeDoc
What sense does that double standard of censorship make? Do they think little kids are watching reruns of Cheers but don't watch Showtime or Starz?
That’s just weird. It’s like the Zero Tolerance skool policies. No common sense or reason is employed anymore just arbitrary rules applied randomly.
They must be in better shape than I am since I lost the fight with gravity.
the website probably burred it
No, they are not showing full frontal nudity on network TV..it's blurred out. Pay channels do show nudity.
And that’s just counting the news stories about Prince Harry in Vegas.
Change the channel?
I don’t think so. The advocate in the article was talking about how blurred nudity is just as bad as not-so-blurred nudity. I think the blurring was actually from the show.
SnakeDoc
The story says they were blurred ON TV. Which really does make this whole thing silly since the blur usually covers more territory than underwear which has been “safe” to show on TV for a long long time.
I dunno dude....it’s looking more and more like someone I don’t know.
PTC Nudity Study (Acrobat PDF)
They mention only some incidents including ones on ABC's Subugatory, Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23, The Bachelor and NBC's The Office, Betty White's Off Their Rockers and America's Got Talent.
Admittedly I rarely if ever watch prime time network TV anymore. But something about that stat does not pass the smell test.
I remember a preacher on TV telling us all that we’d be seeing full frontal nudity on soap operas within 5 years.
That was in 1982. It hasn’t happened, and the soaps themselves are going the way of the dinosaur.
If this is happening it is in the usual and expected places,
like Cinemax.
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