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Here's a quick rundown of why the ratings boards and censorship got started in the first place: http://filmmakeriq.com/lessons/the-history-of-hollywood-censorship-and-the-ratings-system/ It's not totally comprehensive but it's interesting seeing how the bullshit got started. Here's the US Seal of Good Practice, adopted in 1951: http://www.tvhistory.tv/SEAL-Good-Practice.htm When I was a kid I used to think that married adults really did sleep in two different beds, like they did in old shows like "I Love Lucy" and that people really did say "with child" instead of "pregnant." The old production code was really bizarre. E: Also the Janet Jackson nipple thing was just ridiculous. That it was even an issue at all is just loving amazing. Scathach has a new favorite as of 01:26 on Feb 18, 2016 |
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Practical Demon posted:Dude, there were porn theaters in Times Square until the 90s. Disney decided they wanted to get into Broadway, bought a theater, and basically started throwing money at the city to clean up the area and make it suitable for families to come to see a show with Disney's name on it. I was in San Francisco like ten years ago and they had porn theaters. Pretty sure they still have 'em all over the big cities.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Moral Panic is a great vote winner. Especially when you are a 'concerned parent/grandparent' Serious truth here. If you can frighten people then lie and say you saved their kids from some great horror you get their votes. Hell in the US people are still panicking over Satanic ritual abuse when it was proven time and time again to be a hoax. E: found relevant thread content about the "parental advisory" crap they put on CDs. quote:Satanism sold in the eighties, and terrified parents dealing with rebellious teenagers – especially Christian parents – practically ate out of the hands of people like Warnke and Pulling. As D&D lost its ability to scare and became more mainstream, heavy metal music became a more appealing target. In 1985, Tipper Gore and a group of similarly bored and easily frightened Washington wives formed the Parents Media Resource Center – the PMRC – and succeeded in organizing a series of hearings in which both heavy metal musicians and “experts” on Satanism and other salacious topics, testified for and against claims that music was driving children to suicide, Satan, drugs, or sex. The hearing resulted in the Recording Industry Association of America voluntarily adopting “Parental Advisory” stickers that warned parents about the “explicit content” to be found in the albums they were affixed to. Scathach has a new favorite as of 06:24 on Feb 18, 2016 |
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Woolie Wool posted:That law was introduced by the Allied occupation, so the US military is responsible for tentacle porn. I think that merits a war crimes tribunal. Yeah Japan was weird about tentacles way, way before that. Check out "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife." Two octopuses, a father and son, doing the fisherman's wife.
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