Posted on 05/02/2002 12:53:14 PM PDT by areafiftyone
Fox Broadcastings plan to air a racy special on Playboy magazine's notorious centerfold is drawing fire from conservative groups.
The network is due to air a two hour show, "The Girl Next Door: The Search for a Playboy Centerfold," at 8 p.m. on May 10 and organizations such as Concerned Women For America (CWA) want Fox to reconsider showing the program.
"It's men victimizing women for the sake of money and ratings," Jan LaRue, chief counsel of Concerned Women for America told the Associated Press (AP) which cited CWA as one of seven groups, including the Christian Coalition and Focus on the Family, that wrote a letter of protest to Rupert Murdoch, chairman of Fox's parent News Corp.
LaRue told AP she was concerned the special would encourage men to treat women as sex objects and sends a dangerous message to girls.
"It communicates to 12- and 13-year-old girls that this is what you have to do to be attractive to men," she said. "It dehumanizes, it objectifies and it is a gateway to hard-core pornography."
A Fox spokesman, Scott Grogin, brushed off the complaints, telling AP yesterday: "We respect all of our viewers' rights to their opinions. If this is a show they don't like or feel is appropriate, please don't watch."
The planned show will feature a dozen women who are flown to Los Angeles in hopes of becoming one of the magazine's celebrated centerfold models. They're housed at Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's infamous Playboy Mansion, and are filmed while "sunbathing by the pool (and) primping for photo shoots." After being given Hollywood shopping sprees and evenings out at restaurants and clubs, one of them is chosen by Hefner to be featured in a centerfold shoot wearing little or nothing.
The AP described the show as a cross between ABC's popular "The Bachelor" series and its Victoria's Secret fashion show aired last November which sparked a Federal Communications Commission investigation that found that it didn't violate broadcast standards for decency.
Fox has drawn fire from some of the same groups protesting the Playboy show who filed complaints with the FCC last month about Fox's "Boston Public," show, charging that the classroom drama is loaded with sexual topics, particularly for a program airing it what used to be known as television's family hour, the AP reported.
Fox defended "Boston Public" and series creator David E. Kelley, saying "we're proud to have it on our air.
Same here!
AMEN!
Nobody is forcing these women to be participants on this television program. If anyone is victimizing anyone, these women are victimizing themselves.
"It communicates to 12- and 13-year-old girls that this is what you have to do to be attractive to men," she said.
Actually, the source that most typical 12 year-old and 13 year-old girls use to learn about how to be attractive to guys are the teenage fashion magazines written almost exclusively by female writers and editors.
Nah, it's whores and tarts getting paid for doing what comes naturally to them.
LOL.
LOL! My most precious possession is my faith. It would be absolutely RUINED if it were legislated. God wants a willing heart just as much as He wants a pure heart. The end of my religious comments, LOL!
Hey! We agree on something. I feel all warm and fuzzy now. :-)
I see the point that CWA is making, but the fact is that pornographers wouldn't have anything to sell if women wouldn't take their clothes off.
One of the bad aspects of it is that there are men who either 1. Feel deprived in their marriages because their wives don't look like the doctored and airbrushed pictures in porn magazines or 2. Feel deprived because their wives won't contort themselves into bone-breaking positions in the bedroom like the whores in the magazines. This is where porn can be a big problem for marriages.
Anyway, prostitution is the oldest profession. These women just happen to be selling their bodies in a magazine.
I persnally knew the actor who portrayed Porky---Chuck Mitchell. Unfortunately he passed away a few years ago.
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