Censorship? Right, wrong?

I've been thinking about that most M rated video games and movies are M rated because of nudity, and not because of for example violence or bad language.

And no, this is not some effort to try and redeem my sex thread, but why is it that there are topics about a guy brutally murdering his sisters but we can't have a topic discussing sex? Seriously, in my honest opinion violence is far more offensive than sex. What do you think?

O.O

I disagree.

I find violence a hell of a lot more offensive than sex, but there's not much you can do about it. Some countries are incredibly repressed about that kind of stuff. Think about American commercial TV, you can show graphic violence in early time slots, but you can't even swear? That's messed up.

I'm glad commercial television in Australia is a lot more free. After 8:30 you can pretty much show anything, swearing, sex, nudity. Same goes for during the hours of 11am and 2pm on school days.

Violence does not cause STD's.

Violence does not cause STD's.

Lto_thaG

Violence does not cause STD's.

Lto_thaG

Yeah, but neither does watching sex.

I honestly can't believe people out there think sex is worse than violence it makes me physically sick that such people exist.

[QUOTE="Lto_thaG"]

Violence does not cause STD's.

Jandurin

[QUOTE="Lto_thaG"]

Violence does not cause STD's.

Cactus_Matt

Yeah, but neither does watching sex.

I honestly can't believe people out there think sex is worse than violence it makes me physically sick that such people exist.

[QUOTE="Jandurin"][QUOTE="Lto_thaG"]

Violence does not cause STD's.

Lto_thaG

I honestly can't believe people out there think sex is worse than violence it makes me physically sick that such people exist.

Cactus_Matt

What scares me is that it's so common. Like on this site, where regular people of all ages come.

To use a very extreme sense of reasoning; I'd rather have my kids watching porn than snuff. Sex is natural and healthy, and those ways of sex that hurts people, like rape and other abuse, falls under 'violence' and not 'sex'.

If people were open and not so anal (excuse the pun) about sex and nudity we wouldn't have any problems in regards to sex. Why? Because teenagers wouldn't see sex as a "OMG, It's so bad! BUT IM SO CURIOUES, OMG I WANNA TRY IT" kinda thing. If people just took a mature and educated stance on sex, we would not have all the problems associated with sex. They are only adding fuel to a fire that frankly should not exist. Sex, nudity, and human body are completely innocent in every way.

Violence on the other hand... I think it depends on the context. I think people and children should be exposed to the dangers in the world so that they can learn how to protect themself. What we don't need is gratuitous violence for other than the sake of violence. It's retarded, backwoods, and ignorant. By pumping the masses on violence and telling them that there are terrorists in the world out to kill them for no reason at all, they are in essence only promoting violence and aggression.

[QUOTE="Cactus_Matt"]

I honestly can't believe people out there think sex is worse than violence it makes me physically sick that such people exist.

Scarebaby

What scares me is that it's so common. Like on this site, where regular people of all ages come.

To use a very extreme sense of reasoning; I'd rather have my kids watching porn than snuff. Sex is natural and healthy, and those ways of sex that hurts people, like rape and other abuse, falls under 'violence' and not 'sex'.

yeah....blasting a guy's head off is OK, but God forbid there'sbreast on TV :roll:

yeah....blasting a guy's head off is OK, but God forbid there'sbreast on TV :roll:

LosDaddie

[QUOTE="Jandurin"][QUOTE="Lto_thaG"]

Violence does not cause STD's.

Lto_thaG

I find violence a hell of a lot more offensive than sex, but there's not much you can do about it. Some countries are incredibly repressed about that kind of stuff. Think about American commercial TV, you can show graphic violence in early time slots, but you can't even swear? That's messed up.

I'm glad commercial television in Australia is a lot more free. After 8:30 you can pretty much show anything, swearing, sex, nudity. Same goes for during the hours of 11am and 2pm on school days.

Cactus_Matt

Which is worse?

Depends on what type of sex / sexual activity or violence / violent activity your talking about.

I dont see why it is censored to such a degree over here in Europe.

Everyone is gonna come across violence at some point or have sex at some time. I look at it in this way. Why withhold the experience?

If you censor sex and violence or strictly forbid your child to drink alcohol then all you succeed in doing is making the subject more appealling to them.

Does France have a drink problem among the younger generations? Does Holland have a particularly high instance of teen pregnancies? No.

The same goes for video games.

Censorship in my opinion is doing exactly what it tries to prevent.

I'm sure the same people in here complaining about censoring sex were the ones crying about Dr. Manhattan's blue penis So lets clarify this, censorship of T&A is bad, censorship of everything else is good.

I'm sure the same people in here complaining about censoring sex were the ones crying about Dr. Manhattan's blue penis So lets clarify this, censorship of T&A is bad, censorship of everything else is good.cametall

[QUOTE="cametall"]I'm sure the same people in here complaining about censoring sex were the ones crying about Dr. Manhattan's blue penis So lets clarify this, censorship of T&A is bad, censorship of everything else is good.OT_Rage

Censorship has never been right. It is a form of fear or oppression from the ones in power to its people.
Without being able to discuss or look at something, it can never be called right or wrong, and it becomes free of all forms of control.
The moment we can't discuss a certain religion it becomes something totalitarian. There is no room for truth, only for one presumed variant of truth.
The same with violence, the same with sex, the same with books, politics, movies, everything.

This is also why within, i detest moderations. As long as there are places for me to form and inform, i can live with that. Not one person is more right than another, we're all guessing.

i really don't like censorship, it holds ppl back from being themselves and it also hides some of the truths about humanity.. language, sex, violence is real and it is always sad when some young unsuspecting person who lived a sheltered life gets caught up in something he/she could have avoided ...but didn't because of their curiosity.

Censorship is bad full-stop,arodmell

I would argue that MOST censorship is bad.

Censoring sex or language is silly, imo. But censoring hate propaganda (i.e. Nazi literature) is essential in a civilized society.

The fact is that most networks COULD put on pretty much whatever they want after 10pm eastern time and before 5am eastern time (during the watershed hour), but don't, not because of the law, but because they'd lose advertisers. Not all companies want to place their product opposite to programming featuring boobs.

I'm not a fan of censorship. I don't think it's necessary. Say we were to get rid of it, I don't think we'd end up tossing sex and violence into everything just because we could. Besides, if that kind of stuff offends you, all you have to do is change the channel.krazykillaz

[QUOTE="KungfuKitten"][QUOTE="AnObscureName"] If you've ever read a Daily Mail (UK rag of a "newspaper") article you'll see how stupid some people are. They maybe don't believe the rhetoric of people like Anjem Choudary but they have there own brand of rhetoric that stirs up, indirectly, hatred towards certain groups (it's anyone who works in banks or the stockmarket at the moment).AnObscureName

censorship is what holds us back

Censorship isn't good in media but if you have people like Anjem Choudary going around spouting hateful rhetoric, I want him censored. Call me a hypocrit but oh well. As for sex/violence, I've never found either especially offensive. Talking of which, I saw A Clockwork Orange for the first time the other night and the first half-hour or so...well I was surprised that it was allowed.AnObscureName

Censorship is terrible! You can tell what the person is saying anyway. Plus, it takes away the humor from Comedy Central shows :(