Look at England. They LAUGH at us with events like this. There public nudity is taken as a given. Hell, its in the newspaper (page 3?) daily. You don’t see their children growing up to be demented. You don’t see terrible damage done to their society as a whole. You don’t see constant one up manship to always degrade ourselves more.

Why? Because they don’t HIDE sexuality. They know its there, they’ve accepted that fact. Why is America still hiding the fact that umm…we all come from sex? Well have sexual parts. They’re there and for a damn long part of our lives its a primary driving force behind our every move.

Please, while Janet and Justin’s actions were tasteless and silly but its the REACTION to them that is sad and degrading. We cheer when someone gets decapitated in a movie but god save the world if we see a tit.

Nudity on TV may not offend one family, but it may offend another. So you have to play the middle ground and not offend either, and this means no amount of nudity or sexual acts on prime-time TV. These laws are in place for a reason, they weren’t put in by a bunch of Protestant prudes looking to burn witches at the stake, they were put in to respect a nation of diverse beliefs.

The reaction is sad and degrading? Why? You even agree that the actions of Justin and Janet is tasteless and silly, so why should they get away with it? If you piss off millions of people, you don’t sit there and wonder why, or shrug it off, you FIX the problem. Running 3DGPU.com has taught me that much. If 50 people complained they didn’t like a blinking ad, I don’t say “other sites do it, so I can too”, or figure 50 people isn’t enough to warrant an action, I take it down, apologize, and don’t do it again. Because that’s respecting peoples’ feelings.

I had no choice in deciding if I wanted my children to see it. I know what to expect on the news. I know what to expect with a R rated movie, or certain TV dramas. I would never expect to sit down to watch the Superbowl and see that type of act. It isn’t even the exposure of a breast (Big Deal!) It is the sight of a man tearing off a womens clothes…not the image I want my daughters to see.

The problem with America, and society in general is the gradual desensitivation of sex. It has turned from something deep, beautiful and personal into something like going to the store for a coke. It is cheap and tawdry and that makes it extremely hard to teach young girls the opposite of what they are bombarded with by the media. My wife and I are by no means prudes and we are very open with the human body and when the time is right, sex. We try to teach our girls to respect themselves and their bodies

I’m not disagreeing that there should be limits. I’m not disagreeing that it was done in bad taste and that it should be limited but for gods sakes it was a boob. Its not like they got on stage and did the horizontal mombo or anything. It was a breast. You see more skin on the average beach than you did on that show. My problem is with the reaction, the overwelming sad reaction to what occured. You don’t see it in ANYTHING else in America. Not in politics, not regarding our economy, not even regarding violence. Yet a breast becomes the MOST WATCHED TIVO EVENT EVER. Its now one of the most heavily searched items on the internet. Thats just…sad.

More air time and more effort will be expended on the two second clip of an exposed breast then will be spent on politics for the next year. THAT is my problem with this event. Yes, it was sad and tasteless but our reaction is worse. Like I said on my weblog, America needs to grow up.

I always mix the Puritans with the Protestants. Whether laws stem from their beliefs would be hard to prove, considering the majority of our laws have to be approved by the people, and not everyone in American follows the Puritan belief. I certainly don’t.

Once again, you’re focusing on the wrong thing here. People aren’t upset because of a boob being displayed, it was the context, the place, and timing of it. It was disrespectful to the common viewer, over 89 million of them. It was disrespectful towards women, with a man ripping a section of the breast off, and the woman looking shocked and then outraged at the act. A young child would/can interpret that the wrong way, and teach the wrong values.

Of course it was the most replayed event on TIVO, who wants to replay boring politicians or information about the economy. The majority of the people that use TIVO are those who are using it to watch soap operas at night or sporting events they couldn’t catch, which are people likely to be interested in a 2 second clip of a breast. TIVO doesn’t represent America, as much as you make it sound like it does.

I’ll drop it though and just go with the “we agree to disagree” aspect. I don’t want to come off as an ass with it because in general I do like your writing even though I just came across it last week.