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OK, I'm not entirely sure I agree with those bare-boobs protesters and their methods, but I've seen media, including, and especially, those that are in favour, generally put a black bar over their exposed tits. Is it really that traumatic for children to see a flashing of exposed female breasts? Especially when, in the same outlets, they are treated to bodies covered in blood, dead or alive, and severed limbs?
 
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It too early for me to think. My kid hasn't seen dead bodies but she wouldn't pay any attention to bare boost. She might just ask why they're naked.
 
Exactly. :lol:

Several sips of coffee later, a thought occurs. Maybe that black line is not there because of children.
 
Probably not, but then the reports about bare-breasted protesters against conservative Catholic priests would receive an ironic twist.
 
Perun said:
OK, I'm not entirely sure I agree with those bare-boobs protesters and their methods, but I've seen media, including, and especially, those that are in favour, generally put a black bar over their exposed tits. Is it really that traumatic for children to see a flashing of exposed female breasts? Especially when, in the same outlets, they are treated to bodies covered in blood, dead or alive, and severed limbs?
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Sorry for going a little outside your point here, but is that a frequent sight in your media?
 
I've had this discussion with my friends, and our parents. We seem, as a society, to shy away from 'sex' (nakedness, etc), yet seem calloused to violence. Granted, I'm the number one user in that-- I watch violent movies, play violent games. I feel somewhat nervous when a sex scene comes on and my kids are around. However, I've been trying to change that and my attitude.
 
mckindog said:
Sorry for going a little outside your point here, but is that a frequent sight in your media?
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It's more the other way around in German media. It's no problem to show nudity, but there is not overly much violence, either real or fictional.

But I was talking more about international media. I will never forget a report I saw a little over ten years ago on CNN, about the war in Chechnya. At one point, you saw a few Russian recruits, nude, with their butts blurred... you never actually had them turn around to the point where you'd see their penises. A few minutes later, there was footage from downtown Grozny, with a hanged corpse, blood-soaked and burnt, in closeup. Trust me, it was a seriously disturbing image. I've been trying to rationalise this for myself ever since, and I simply never understood it. Never.
 
I suppose there's the outside chance they were thinking of the dignity of a living person, and on the other hand wanting to expose the violence as graphically as possible. Or that CNN was thinking of a mainly American audience, where a section of the viewers have strong feelings about nudity.
I'm not really used to seeing much of either nudity or images of dead or seriously injured people on the news here. It was a surprise when I was in Spain and saw close-up images of wounded Spanish soldiers, plus interviews with them from their hospital beds
 
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