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I never understood why here in the US you can see a person die on tv but not two people having sex

Another question:
Is it worse to talk about sex or masturbation? Because, to me, it seems to be the latter of the two, which, quite frankly, is natural, and... everyone does it, I mean, who are we kidding?

-konfusion

you ask a room of men if they masturbate, half would say never

~{TPP}~richoxon wrote:

you ask a room of men if they masturbate, half would say never

I find that hard to believe and this funny, too.

How much people talk about it i would guess would depend on their social status and who they are with. They aren't gonna announce it to people they cant trust. Europe on the other hand i have no idea and ive never been.

Does Europe restrict Violence as much as we restrict sexuality?  That would be interesting

I think the reason we make more raunchy but not quite sexual videos is because its fun to be so close to being "wrong".  Honestly, I don't care that sexual content is limited on our tv's, there's other outlets for someone to get that kind of release (See: Women), and those outlets can be much more regulated than a TV set.  As for violence, most of our violence on tv is good guy vs bad guy, so you know that the violence of the bad guy is wrong, and that the good guy is only doing it because he has to.

SenorToenails wrote:

The US has a lot of conservative Christians who seem to think that seeing sex is terrible, and will damage you in an irreparable way, while violence is a-ok.  So now the media alludes to it.  Heavily.  The US has some of the MOST sexually suggestive media.  But hey, it's alright because they don't show penises or women's nipples.

Erm, no.  Everyone loves sex.  The debate is how much to show in public or in universally accessible media.

Stingray24 wrote:

SenorToenails wrote:

The US has a lot of conservative Christians who seem to think that seeing sex is terrible, and will damage you in an irreparable way, while violence is a-ok.  So now the media alludes to it.  Heavily.  The US has some of the MOST sexually suggestive media.  But hey, it's alright because they don't show penises or women's nipples.

Erm, no.  Everyone loves sex.  The debate is how much to show in public or in universally accessible media.

I didn't say people don't like sex.  I said a noisy group of people don't like to see sex.

SenorToenails wrote:

Stingray24 wrote:

SenorToenails wrote:

The US has a lot of conservative Christians who seem to think that seeing sex is terrible, and will damage you in an irreparable way, while violence is a-ok.  So now the media alludes to it.  Heavily.  The US has some of the MOST sexually suggestive media.  But hey, it's alright because they don't show penises or women's nipples.

Erm, no.  Everyone loves sex.  The debate is how much to show in public or in universally accessible media.

I didn't say people don't like sex.  I said a noisy group of people don't like to see sex.

Ah, sorry for the misread on your post.  As a parent, I want to be able to provide my kids the opportunity to have a childhood, which means not learning more about sexuality than their maturity can handle.  I believe this is the viewpoint that most of the opposition is coming from, whatever the religion.

Stingray24 wrote:

As a parent, I want to be able to provide my kids the opportunity to have a childhood, which means not learning more about sexuality than their maturity can handle.  I believe this is the viewpoint that most of the opposition is coming from, whatever the religion.

I agree with you, but I don't think that laws should be passed to make that vision come true.  There are v-chips, as well as the "off" button for the tv.  The problem that I have is when some group of parents wants there to be some "nanny state" because they are too lazy to properly supervise/raise their children.  I only mentioned conservative Christians because usually that is where the obnoxious voice of protest comes from.

SenorToenails wrote:

Stingray24 wrote:

As a parent, I want to be able to provide my kids the opportunity to have a childhood, which means not learning more about sexuality than their maturity can handle.  I believe this is the viewpoint that most of the opposition is coming from, whatever the religion.

I agree with you, but I don't think that laws should be passed to make that vision come true.  There are v-chips, as well as the "off" button for the tv.  The problem that I have is when some group of parents wants there to be some "nanny state" because they are too lazy to properly supervise/raise their children.  I only mentioned conservative Christians because usually that is where the obnoxious voice of protest comes from.

The regulations that are in place have existed for long enough that they're nothing new and I'm not aware of any new laws being proposed on the subject.  I agree with your point that there is technology available to block things and/or the channel can be easily switched.  It’s not always that easy, though, as I’m sure you know if you have kids.

konfusion wrote:

Is there a big difference between how Americans deal with sexuality than Europeans?
Is it just me, or is anything sexual seen as much more offensive than violence? Is it because of the amount of Christians in the USA?

What has caused this difference in mentalities on sexual matters?

-konfusion

Puritanical heritage...  It's rather unfortunate...  Maybe we'll wake up someday and stop being so repressed.