Bare Breasts No Longer Qualify

Miles · Post by **Miles** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:07 am

I was watching a movie on TV last week (don't recall its title) in which a woman was walking around topless. For what ever reason, I happened to check the on-screen program guide description and noticed it was rated R--no surprise--but I also noted that it carried no "N" for nudity rating. Tonight I happened upon another movie The babysitters, in which one of the teen girls is bare breasted, and in checking the description of the movie I again found that while rated R, it carried no "N" designation for nudity.

In the past, bare female breasts always seemed to warrant a "N" advisory, but evidently no longer.

So my question here is: Do you think this change in the movie guides, one that no longer considers bare female breast as qualifying as nudity, a good one or not? And why?

McCulloch · Post by **McCulloch** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:37 am

Why should they? In our modern culture, we have sexualized female human breasts, but they are not primarily sexual organs. I see no reason to prohibit or restrict female toplessness any more than male toplessness.

VermilionUK · Post by **VermilionUK** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:02 am

It's a sign of how culture is changing. Elvis was only filmed from the waist up, because his hip-shaking was deemed sexual, and that was only around 40 years ago.

Nowadays we have music videos, advertisements, magazines etc, many of which promote sex in some way.

The watershed hour of 9pm is almost non-existant. There's diet programs on UK television showing full nudity several hours before the watershed. We're so exposed to sex and sex icons in today's society that we no longer find it "rude" or "shocking" to see a nudity on the screen.

JoeyKnothead · Post by **JoeyKnothead** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:35 am

Hooray!

I love a good pair'a hooters!

I can't understand why nakedness is so taboo on TV, or in life. I'd much rather see a naked chick than the violence that is so much more prevalent.

cnorman18 · Post by **cnorman18** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:40 am

joeyknuccione wrote:Hooray!

I love a good pair'a hooters!

I can't understand why nakedness is so taboo on TV, or in life. I'd much rather see a naked chick than the violence that is so much more prevalent.

Agreed on all points. So to speak...

The "Saw" movies. Now THAT is pornography. Give me topless females any day.

Miles · Post by **Miles** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:58 am

McCulloch wrote: I see no reason to prohibit or restrict female toplessness any more than male toplessness.

Gotta say, I agree.

VermilionUK wrote: We're so exposed to sex and sex icons in today's society that we no longer find it "rude" or "shocking" to see a nudity on the screen.

Gotta say, I agree.

joeyknuccione wrote:I can't understand why nakedness is so taboo on TV, or in life. I'd much rather see a naked chick than the violence that is so much more prevalent.

Gotta say, I agree.

cnorman18 wrote:The "Saw" movies. Now THAT is pornography. Give me topless females any day.

Gotta say, I agree.

Jonah · Post by **Jonah** » Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:09 pm

The breast thing is also something of an issue peculiar to wasp America. Serious cleavage in public isn't a problem for many other groups, but rather a plus.

Megaboomer · Post by **Megaboomer** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 1:55 pm

VermilionUK wrote:It's a sign of how culture is changing.

-----yeah culture is changing and it's for the worst. people just don't understand what decency is anymore because they have become hardened to what used to be wrong.
--- I've seen parents let their kids watch all kinds of nudity and violence and don't think about the consequences of it at all.

VermilionUK wrote:The watershed hour of 9pm is almost non-existant. There's diet programs on UK television showing full nudity several hours before the watershed. We're so exposed to sex and sex icons in today's society that we no longer find it "rude" or "shocking" to see a nudity on the screen.

--- the fact is that the more you expose yourself to things that are wrong the more you become hardened to them. then you often need something more scandalous or something more provocative to peak your interest. it's an addiction cycle

Jonah · Post by **Jonah** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:25 pm

megaboomer,

It begs the question of how much of breast sight is objectionable. Are you opposed to any cleavage in public?

McCulloch · Post by **McCulloch** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:56 pm

VermilionUK wrote:It's a sign of how culture is changing.

Megaboomer wrote:yeah culture is changing and it's for the worst. people just don't understand what decency is anymore because they have become hardened to what used to be wrong.

I know what you mean. It is so difficult to find a good bear baiting or cockfight, but we can sometimes get to see a human mammary.

Megaboomer wrote:I've seen parents let their kids watch all kinds of nudity and violence and don't think about the consequences of it at all.

What are the consequences of children witnessing nudity?

Jonah wrote:It begs the question of how much of breast sight is objectionable. Are you opposed to any cleavage in public?

Megaboomer, it raises the question not begs it.