[MD] Barbarians & Hippies

[Michael Hamilton]

Arlo wrote:
> > I mean, that IS the right-wing slogan, is it not? Can't show a couple
> > "making love" on television, but you can show all the bombs dropping,
> > bodies flying apart, killing and violence as you want. There was a Mel
> > Gibson movie on a few weeks back, I think it was the first of those ones
> > with Danny Glover. At any rate, they showed all the shooting, blood,
> > guns flying, bodies dropping, etc. But the one second scene where a girl
> > comes out of the shower with her GASP nipple showing, they edited out.

Platt responded:
> So you favor porno on PBS? Why am I not surprised? You seem to be
> fixated on sex.

Apologies to Arlo if I'm stealing his thunder, but I can't resist jumping in:

If you believe that a female nipple always implies sex; if you see the
naked human body as nothing more than a pornographic object: who is
really sex-fixated here?

Regards,
Mike