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(Potential) Upcoming TV series “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” has met with a campaign to have it banned from the UK before it has even made it to our screens due to the amount of nudity and “scenes of a sexual nature” it contains. Never mind that it is particularly gory and quite brutally violent. The fear is that children will watch the series and be corrupted by the nudity. Why that is deemed worse than kids seeing the bloody violence is a mystery to me. I suspect I know which one is more likely to give them nightmares!

Here’s a couple of screen grabs I’ve found:

Certainly looks like it has its good points! (Sorry about the censorship).

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.

No caption needed for this one.

A Bristol (UK)  man who produces commercial porn movies in his four bedroomed home has been confronted by his neighbours protesting outside his house. They claim that his activities have reduced the value of their properties. The Police say that as neither side is doing anything illegal they can take no action.

The protesters haven’t really thought this one through have they? Most people who might buy a house in that cul-de-sac probably don’t live in the immediate area or know about the porn producer. Of course now, because of their highly publicised protest, thousands of people all around the world know about his activities so their property prices probably really have fallen.

James Edwards, who has been in the adult entertainment business for 10 years is not breaking any laws, everything happens indoors and the neighbours cannot see anything.

(Source: BBC News Online.)