KeepItNice Blog

It seems, after quite a few years of experience, that the vast majority of people who are “offended” by nudity or depictions of sexual involvement in movies, magazines, on television and online, are actually much more worried by how people will react to their opinion than anything else. The recent incident where an Australian news program inadvertently broadcast a member of their staff looking at some adult photos is a classic case in point. The guy can be seen to briefly browse through some photos in his e-mail, but to be perfectly honest the screen is too far from the camera to see any real detail, and what could be seen looked very softcore in nature. Websites, newspapers and other news broadcasters were quick to voice their outrage, demand the sacking of the individual involved and general express disbelief that the whole thing happened at all.

This is all very well but I suspect that no-one is actually too bothered at all about the whole thing. However no-one wants to be seen to be not bothered. I suspect that a lot of the opposition and protests about adult websites is very similar. People prefer to be seen to be against it even though the visitor stats show that more than half of people with a home Internet connection regularly visit adult sites, and more than that visit at least occasionally.

It’s about time that society grew up and realised that opinions and fact are clearly not in sync and much of the upset is simply fuss about nothing. Sure there are things out there that most of us don’t want to see, but non-explicit attractive nudes clearly don’t fall into this category for the vast majority.