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Originally posted by HardTranceProd I was checking my Yahoo Mail and they had a front-page news story on the new bombings in Iraq: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060119/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq Note the photo on the left, where the guy's blood is dripping from his face. Why is it ok to show this extremely disturbing photo of a real guy bleeding (on Yahoo/NBC/Reuters, the biggest mass media channel), but god forbid if there is a picture of a naked breast?

Christian conservative values + Schadenfreude.

Yeah you can thank the Christian concervative right for that...

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Originally posted by St_Andrew Yeah you can thank the Christian concervative right for that...

No offense guys, but I think this stuff was censored long before there was grumbling about the "Christian conservative right".

In Europe it's more acceptable to show nudity vs. violence, but in the states it seems to be the opposite. Don't ask me why, but I don't think the reason lies squarely on some random bible-thumper's shoulders.

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Originally posted by Shakka No offense guys, but I think this stuff was censored long before there was grumbling about the "Christian conservative right".

Do you mean back in the day when those ideologues were still burning people at the stake for heresy?

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Originally posted by Trancer-X Do you mean back in the day when those ideologues were still burning people at the stake for heresy?

I blame Hester Prynne!

It's just a perversion of values. Like all other human beings, Christian conservatives would find themselves thinking constantly about sex (it is, afterall, human nature) yet they also have it in their heads that sex is inherently immoral. Therefore, they find themselves in the absurd situation where they're constantly obsessing about something that they've taught themselves to find completely repulsive and end up with a moral system that reflects as much. They spend a disproportionate amount of their time thinking about sex compared to other issues of morality, hence their disproportionate response to, say, the Superbowl nipple-slip.

In short, if they didn't think about sex so much, they might actually be able to focus their moral compass towards the things - like the acts of war depicted in that article - that are genuinely worthy of moral condemnation. So keep your minds out of the gutter, you filthy Christians!

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Originally posted by Shakka No offense guys, but I think this stuff was censored long before there was grumbling about the "Christian conservative right".

Yes, but it was not censored long before the religious conservatives existed

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Originally posted by Renegade It's just a perversion of values. Like all other human beings, Christian conservatives would find themselves thinking constantly about sex (it is, afterall, human nature) yet they also have it in their heads that sex is inherently immoral. Therefore, they find themselves in the absurd situation where they're constantly obsessing about something that they've taught themselves to find completely repulsive and end up with a moral system that reflects as much. They spend a disproportionate amount of their time thinking about sex compared to other issues of morality, hence their disproportionate response to, say, the Superbowl nipple-slip. In short, if they didn't think about sex so much, they might actually be able to focus their moral compass towards the things - like the acts of war depicted in that article - that are genuinely worthy of moral condemnation. So keep your minds out of the gutter, you filthy Christians!

Dood...Catholic girls are AWESOME!

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Originally posted by St_Andrew Yes, but it was not censored long before the religious conservatives existed

Explain. Examples? I think our society is, by and large, a lot more liberal about this stuff than it has ever been before (minus maybe a few small windows here and there).

You know why the porn industry is booming in America...nudity is outlawed oooo breast hide your eyes

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Originally posted by InterMilan31 You know why the porn industry is booming in America...nudity is outlawed oooo breast hide your eyes

I smell a conspiracy theory!