abaris wrote:DYasha wrote: Remember brief nudity on ABC shows? You won't find anymore nudity on American Network Television. A lot more blood, but no more nudity.
That always strikes me as odd in American television. Lots of gore, but beware of nudity.
But there are shows with nudity out there:
The upcoming Spartacus series should have its fair share with Lucy Lawless doing her first nudes (at least she said so in an interview).
Lucy Lawless nude on tv ? That would be great ...
abaris wrote: Also there are french and German shows having lots of nudity. European rules usually work the other way round. Show some skin and be easy on the gore. I like that approach.
Yes, the rules over here (Germany) are somewhat different, but strange, none the less.
When it comes to gore, some movies are heavily cut and available in a 16year version (cut) and in an adult version (uncut or only minor cuts).
However, sometimes I wonder when I watch the uncut versions. It was very extreme in the 80s. Movies that are not that gory (compared to some others) like Evil Dead or Dawn of the Dead have been heavily cutted even in the adult version. There have been many rumours about this movies, especially about Evil Dead. Back in my teenage days, everyone wanted to see them. Once, I saw the uncut version of Evil Dead and I thought to myself: this movie is tame compared to some other horror movies ...
As for nudity on tv ... that also changed. I still remember, back in the late 80s (or was it the early 90s ?) there was this commercial for shower cream featuring a hot looking lady. She was topless - then she turned around and walked away from the camera and you even could see her naked butt
... and back then, tv commercials were only broadcasted between 5 pm to 8 pm ... so it wasn't late at night.
Also, in the 90s there were many talkshows. I still remember this one talkshow: that day they talked about boobs. They talked about how moisturizing creme helps the boobs - and they demonstrated how to rub it in. Imagine: it was like 2 pm or 3 pm and they showed how a guy rubbed some cream on the boobs of a very busty girl ...
I gotta say nowadays, it got less: usually, when they talk about boobs, they don't show them anymore - at least not during daylight time.
But, no matter what time of day it is, the most that you will see on tv is bush - but no pussy lips. The same with most mens magazines. In Germany, we also have magazines like Penthouse, Score, Hustler and so on - but in all this magazines they don't show pussies. They show the same like Playboy.
I still remember when I was a teenager: I once was in a store where they sold german and foreign magazines. I went to the mens section and flipped through the german Penthouse ... some nice looking girls with big bushes - then I took the next magazine ... it was the US-Version of Penthouse. I opened it and was shocked (in a positive way): pussies. This was the first time that I saw a pussy (and since that day I am a fan of pussies)