I'm sorry, but your butt crack is not a sexual organ. Furthermore, it's just an image of some chick's full moon, it's not "sexual activities."
There are times this country is so provincial. In European countries you might see a woman's buttocks on a billboard and no one thinks anything of it. Impeach Bush.
Well, if the buttocks are a sexual organ, why is the Republican party so pissed off at gay dudes? I don't understand.
This thread is disingenuous. Thread title says "Bush administration" in an overt attempt to indict Bush over an article about the FCC that has no mention of his name, the white house, or his cabinet. Furthermore, what's new here, exactly? Is a breast a sexual organ or not? Do buttocks have no connection to excretory functions? Or is this just a flimsily crafted semantic argument for the sake of whining?
The buttocks are not a secondary sexual organ. Breasts are, but let's keep anatomical science out of this. Let's keep their ankles hidden while we are at it. edit: basso <3
Well it's not like the FCC became more conservative on it's own, these puritanical standards are the result of the 2 guys he's selected as chairmen of the FCC.
Your FCC Chairman: (At least he has degrees from legit schools.) He serves with two other Republicans... one wingnut woman and another guy who was a lawyer for the Recount Team, among other things. There's also a nondescript ex Senate aide and an ex-aide to Fritz Hollings in the "Dem" seats. No more than 3 of the Commissioners can be from the same party, so Bush tried to have his two repubs register as independents so he could appoint two more repubs. I guess that was little too over the top for them, as they backed off eventually.
I don't really care about this one way or the other, but I would at least like people to be accurate and honest about it. First off, everybody is hanging on the sexual organ phrase, while that is half of the regulation. It also forbids the display of excretory organs. The buttocks may qualify under this language. Secondly, the buttocks has for quite a while been the subject of sexual arousal. There are an entire classification of "butt men." For a number of people, the view of a woman's bare butt has been an object of arousal. To ignore this is silly.
Your anus is an excretory organ, not your crack. On most people, you can't see the anus unless you go looking for it. The actress didn't bend over and spread her cheeks. So are a lot of other parts of the body. Some guys get crazy over feet, hands, mouths, midriffs, legs, hair, etc. Heck, why do you think there were so many long closeups of women smoking in movies made during the 40's and 50's? If everything that could be an object of sexual arousal was prohibited from TV, there'd be nothing on. Now, I don't particularly have a problem with saying "no naked asses" on the public airwaves, but to justify it like this and to change the rules of the game so you can go after things that happened 4-5 years ago seems a bit much. Just say, "from here on out, no naked asses on TV."
to be fair, naked butt-ocks (to quote forrest gump) have been buttocks-non-gratta on the public airwaves for quite some time, long before GWB. in fact, i would challenge you to show us when naked butt-ocks have ever been allowed on commercial television in the US. the larger question is, are they allowed on CF, and to that i would say, this thread.is useless.without.pics.
What is silly is the FCC trying to enforce some puritanical morality regarding a TV show episode that aired 5 years ago when the series is now off the air, based on the outdated broadcast/cable distinciton. Kevin Martin has a stick up his ass about naughtiness on TV. His petulant press release last year, where he threw a fit and intentionally said sh-t and f-ck about a thousand times in order to shock and awe us after the second circuit had te audacity to overturn one of his post-hoc, arbitrary decisions about a 4 year old live TV broadcast, was a thing of beauty and really illustrative of the kind of douche he is. I can't wait till that righteous asshat is out of office.
