It seems that the US is trying to emulate our good friends in the Middle East on how to deal with sexuality in media. We can have Jack Bauer going around shooting terrorists and torturing people (not necessarily saying there's anything wrong with that) but the moment a bare woman's ass or breast appears on TV, there's a huge fucking uproar. You can have brutal violence in movies and people won't care, but if it's got sex and nudity then people get all angry. What the fuck?
For example, video games. You're all probably familiar with Jack Thompson (if not, he's a crackpot lawyer who hates GTA games, he thinks they're the worst thing to happen to kids since polio)... in the latest installment of GTA, he was once again angry. Why? There was a video on IGN that showed just general gameplay, including both shooting random folks and picking up hookers and getting lapdances or something. Guess what Thompson was mad about? Yeah.
Or Soul Calibur 4. They may just be virtual titties, but this webpage speaks for itself: http://kotaku.com/391421/namco-bandai-i … t-cover+up
This post on Digg sums it up well:
For example, video games. You're all probably familiar with Jack Thompson (if not, he's a crackpot lawyer who hates GTA games, he thinks they're the worst thing to happen to kids since polio)... in the latest installment of GTA, he was once again angry. Why? There was a video on IGN that showed just general gameplay, including both shooting random folks and picking up hookers and getting lapdances or something. Guess what Thompson was mad about? Yeah.
Or Soul Calibur 4. They may just be virtual titties, but this webpage speaks for itself: http://kotaku.com/391421/namco-bandai-i … t-cover+up
This post on Digg sums it up well:
Anyone from Europe wanna tell us how it is over there? Do people in Europe get all uppity when there's nudity?We, as Americans, are just conditioned to be far more comfortable with violence than with sexuality. Of course, I'm just speaking in general terms. But as an example, let me put forth my own family. I had heard a lot of good reviews, both personal and professional, about the Showtime series the Tudors. So I got the first season on DVD through Netflix.
My wife, myself, and my in-laws are all sitting around the tele. Within the first five minutes we see a man brutally stabbed in the gut by several men. He collapses and bleeds out on the marble floor. Within the next 15 minutes there's a sex scene with breasts and King Henry VIII spreading a womans thighs and my wife and her parents are literally squirming uncomfortably in their seats, clearing their throats and exchanging glances.
Savage murder barely raises any concern. But bare breast and thigh, and you'd think someone was pouring cold water in everyone's lap. Amazing, really.
