I've been catching the news at all hours of the day lately and it never fails...there's Saddam with a noose on his neck!

Why do you suppose that it makes sense to the "powers that be" that a hanging is suitable television at any hour and on any channel, and yet we've darted clear back to the fifties in what we now see/hear (TV and radio) of a sexual content since the unveiling of Janet's [ugly] boob?

In essense...why is killing and death more acceptable than sexiness and the human body?

Just had to ask out loud!

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People fed a healthy diet of sex (which is only partially sated by titilation, which is what the seconds of boob was) are happy people, and happy people are hopeful people, and hopeful people feel they have the power to do something about how the government is fucking them. It's Orwellian.

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LixyChick,

Violence on television is socially acceptable, sex much less so. Consider children's animated cartoons - Tom & Jerry are the poster children.

An reality of our society.

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beats the hell outta me, unless we want to get into another debate about religious influence.

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I wish the networks were as quick to broadcast infamous boobs as they are in televising this rubbish.

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Good point, Lixy!

I purposely avoid videos of the hanging. I don't care about anyone's opinion about the man but to view his death over & over is truly disturbing. I'd hate to have to explain it to a child.

I have pondered this since I read your thread this morning. The only logical conclusion IS that "killing and death more acceptable than sexiness and the human body" to the "powers that be".

I am unaware of any guideline, regulation or law that has hampered ANY conviction held by thses powers.

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I think you hit it on the head there PF.

I've been doing all I can to avoid seeing any more about it as well. I guess I can understand some people's curiosity about wanting to see something like that but I'll pass. I'm perfectly content looking at naked pics of Pixies.

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Gentlefolk,

Well here is a bit of good news. The only remaining video of Steve Irwin's encounter with the stingray has been given to his wife, and she said that the video of his death should not be broadcast.

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I agree with you Lixy. I find graphic violence to be very disgusting and turn off the news or turn away during a program that insists on portraying it.

But, you know, we're not unique. I understand that while the Romans flocked to the arenas to watch people fight to the death or simply be killed; the they were horribly offended by Romans being nude (except at the baths) or by having sex in public (although the phallus was considered a symbol of fertility and often used in the home as a decoration). Nude Roman sculptures are usually copies of Greek originals.

I'm beginning ... well, okay, not beginning ... to think people (other than Pixies, of course) are somewhat goofy.

Cartoonist Bill Plympton pointed it out some 30 years ago (in his book "Medium Rare", which I believe is still somewhere in my basement collection): "Violence in movies & TV is OK, but violence in real life will get you arrested...Sex in real life is OK, but sex on movies & TV will get you arrested."

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Lixy I've argued this point for years.

How stupid that a breast should be considered not suitable viewing for children, yet the World Health Organisation advises that children are fed from them for the first two years of their lives.

Breasts aren't about sex - they are about nourishment, comfort and....dare I say it out loud...women's power! That's why our male society is equally fascinated and terrified by them.

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I love boobs because I relish in the feeling of a nipple hardening in my mouth while I'm sucking it. I love the texture of a stiffened areola against my tongue, and I love the soft yet firm feel and the weight of a full breast in my hand.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

/me puts on my Freud hat.....

Is that a hankering to return to infancy, I wonder.......not that I'd blame you, of course...is probably the reason I'd quite like to try sucking on a breast myself sometime!

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I'd like some milk and nookie .. er .. cookies.