Question by Dario W: Why is sex and nudity forbidden for kids to see in entertainment but violence is not?
Why is sex and nudity (even in a non-sexual sense) censored from kids entertainment, but violence is okay? It’s acceptable to subject children to see violent sports like footbore, thugby, boxing and wrestling, hatred, violence and death but manifestations of love, romance and the human body as it is are taboo. I don’t get it.
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Answer by Christine
I really don’t know…For what you said to even be allowed FILMED is screwed up. Hey, welcome to the world…
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cause people are prudes
I agree with you. We are far too desensitized to violence and far too sensitive about nudity and sex. It varies by culture. We had a German exchange student with us for a while and she was absolutely mortified at the level of violence and gore we watched on American TV. On the other hand, we had a French exchange student with us for a while when I was a kid, and within days she was out sunbathing in the nude in our back yard until my mother found out and went absolutely nuts. The student thought my mother was some sort of crazy woman.
People should be more repelled by the commercialization of violence, and should more responsibly accept the human form and sexuality.
We should first separate nudity and sex as you have implied; far too many people find it hard to separate the two, but they are not inseparably linked. Naturists (or nudists as Americans seem to prefer to call us) successfully separate the two and there is absolutely no harm to children from being exposed to nudity – quite the opposite in fact. Children revel in their own nudity because of the freedom it provides, they are also not at all bothered by other people’s nudity unless they have been taught to be so. Children don’t associate nudity with sex because they haven’t been taught to.
Sex is a different issue. Children have a natural curiosity about where they came from, but it doesn’t need the full details to be explained straight away and it is better to leave those for when the child has the emotional maturity to deal with them. As we all know, sex carries responsibilities and consequences, and a person has to be ready to deal with those, so confronting a child with explicit sexual material too soon carries dangers that we need to be mindful of.
I would say that violence is worse, which is why I have never been able to understand the ‘logic’ applied to the treatment of sex and violence in society. Violence is an undesirable activity which is always harmful and really should have no place in a civilised society. Sex is, or at least should be, an act of love and is a very necessary part of the continuation of the species. I know which I prefer!
But we are not even talking about sex here, we are talking about simple nudity. Why can we not celebrate the beauty of the natural human form as freely as we seem to be able to wallow in the depravity of violence? I don’t have the answer, it puzzles me as much as it obviously does you. Perhaps it comes down to some people’s inability to separate nudity from sex. It’s just a pity that their view appears to dominate.