Comments on: Television Censoring Inconsistent?

By: Game

Game — Thu, 24 May 2007 15:40:53 +0000

A large proportion of programmes I happen to watch on UK tv are all too happy to show as many penises as possible, in every detail, erect or not, sometimes even before the 9:00 watershed. But I can think of only one occasion when I have EVER seen a vagina shown on tv and that was on ‘Extreme Cosmetic Surgery’ or something like that, presented by Vanessa Feltz. Bearing in mind ‘genitalia’ does NOT mean a few pubic hairs or ‘full frontal’ when it applies to females, I think it is FAR more common for unequal censorship to be used to protect the dignity of females, and not males. Examples: Channel 4′s ‘Embarrassing Illnesses’ (broadcast at 8:30) & BBC’s ‘The Human Body’. There was male nudity galore in both but no corresponding female nudity and these were both supposed to be balanced, educational programmes… The sexism is SO obvious. If it were the other way around, everybody would be outraged wouldn’t they? Double standards!

By: Ianiv Schweber

Ianiv Schweber — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:23:46 +0000

Take it easy Marc. I have no problem with nudity on TV, but that is besides the point. We are not talking about showing human male or female genitalia, but about how ridiculous it is to censor the most important part of an educational program.

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 05:43:48 +0000

I’ve seen the same episode.The stallion’s penis is blurred and we do see the vulva of the mare somewhat,some of it was blurred also.

But in my telivision viewing,it has always been the other way around,be it horses or humans.

it’s amazing thatt feminazis complain about the unfairness of Tv daring to show vulva(a horse for god’s sake)and not equally showing the male anatomy.

How come you don’t complain when so much TV today shows the male genital but nowhere is the vulva.

As the perfect example,HBO showed Private Dicks but the feminazi producer Meema Spadola never made the other side of the story “the vulva”

Why don’t you hypocrites complain about that.

By: Easton Ellsworth

Easton Ellsworth — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 20:07:24 +0000

My wife and I watched that episode several weeks ago and noticed the same inconsistency! I just wonder what the rules are and why – it did seem odd to us that the image blurring was inconsistently applied.

By: jane

jane — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 06:31:06 +0000

That sure does sound weird. Almost sounds as though it’s being treated like an X-rated National Geographic show. It’s too bad the message is being sent that its wrong for animals to mate. (perhaps cuz they’re not married?)

By: Ianiv Schweber

Ianiv Schweber — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:42:31 +0000

I don’t think there are different rules. In fact, I don’t think showing horse genitalia in a program about horse breeding is indecent in any way.
If someone finds horse breeding more disturbing than the episodes with the raw sewage and exploding toilets then they have a problem.
And why is it ok to show a bag full of horse semen and not the horse penis it just came out of?
Really, what the hell were they thinking?