America's Struggle with Sexual Expression

[Sakunyuusha]

Exhibit A: Americans are fearful of "licentious" material like hentai, video games with sex in them, or explicit sex scenes with full nudity in rated R or PG-13 films.

Exhibit B: Americans have no problem selling this at the check-out aisle of every grocery and supermarket in the nation. Note: 5 year olds can read this. Children of just about any age can purchase this magazine.

I bought this for several threads I'd like to write here over the next few days, but this one's the first.

 

[EzikialRage]

At first when I saw the thread title I was think oh man don't tell me its another pedo bitching how my government won't them looking at naked pictures of 5 year olds or videos of 8 years olds in bikinis or pedo cartoons. But then I saw the thread starter name and realized it was started by a man who likes his females to actually have boobs and not the body of little boys.

Exhibit A: Americans are fearful of "licentious" material like hentai, video games with sex in them, or explicit sex scenes with full nudity in rated R or PG-13 films.

The idea is so little children do not take their allowance money to buy porn and to help parents regulate what their children can and can't see. Parental rights is a strong issue in this country. The Japanese have censorship too, if I am correct they ban showing genitalia but for some reason can have a bunch of dudes ejaculating on a woman.

Exhibit B: Americans have no problem selling this at the check-out aisle of every grocery and supermarket in the nation. Note: 5 year olds can read this. Children of just about any age can purchase this magazine.
I bought this for several threads I'd like to write here over the next few days, but this one's the first.

Actually Cosmopolitan is a chick magazine, I think it is a female fashion magazine or something like that, they usually sell all kinds of chick magazines like that at the check out isle like magazines made by legalized celebrity stalkers like USweekly or some other celebrity gossip/stalker magazine and national enquirers and other chick mags . No straight dude would be caught dead looking at that. The mens magazines are FHM, Maxim, King, Stuff and GQ, the American versions as far as I know contain no nudity. Those are usually kept in the isle where they sell regular magazines, comics, video game magazines, sometimes anime and manga magazines in the

 

[Sakunyuusha]

Hahahaha, I know what Cosmopolitan is, and I am an American. You talk as if you're talking to somebody who lives in a different country! lol

The reason I purchased it was for the purpose of making threads about America's double-standard regarding explicit sexual themes in public media, and the explicit sexual themes obvious on the cover of this magazine aren't the skin service you seemed to be hinting at with Maxim: it's the text. Pay attention to the text!

1. Bad Girl Issue - For Sexy Bitches Only!
2. What He Thinks During Sex
3. Foreplay Men Crave
   • Touch His Erotic Spot (Surprise: It Doesn't Rhyme With Schmenis)
4. The Silent Clue Men Give Off When They're in Love

This magazine would have been considered imprudent in the 1950s and downright evil in the 1850s, and yet here we are today, good ol' 2009, and you can find it in any check-out aisle in the country.

Am I bitching about that? No, not necessarily. What I'm bitching about is the double-standard: that America can't seem to make up its mind. Am I a prude country?, she asks herself, frowning on Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball and filing litigation against hentai importers? Or am I a sexually-liberated country?, she wonders, selling sex tips written by creepy (and inaccurate) 20-something men to teenage girls?

As for the mostly-male staff ... more on that in another thread. lol

 

[EzikialRage]

Hahahaha, I know what Cosmopolitan is, and I am an American. You talk as if you're talking to somebody who lives in a different country! lol

The reason I purchased it was for the purpose of making threads about America's double-standard regarding explicit sexual themes in public media, and the explicit sexual themes obvious on the cover of this magazine aren't the skin service you seemed to be hinting at with Maxim: it's the text. Pay attention to the text!

1. Bad Girl Issue - For Sexy Bitches Only!
2. What He Thinks During Sex
3. Foreplay Men Crave
   • Touch His Erotic Spot (Surprise: It Doesn't Rhyme With Schmenis)
4. The Silent Clue Men Give Off When They're in Love

This magazine would have been considered imprudent in the 1950s and downright evil in the 1850s, and yet here we are today, good ol' 2009, and you can find it in any check-out aisle in the country.

Am I bitching about that? No, not necessarily. What I'm bitching about is the double-standard: that America can't seem to make up its mind.

Am I a prude country?, she asks herself, frowning on Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball and filing litigation against hentai importers? Or am I a sexually-liberated country?, she wonders, selling sex tips written by creepy (and inaccurate) 20-something men to teenage girls?

As for the mostly-male staff ... more on that in another thread. lol

There is a difference between merely talking about sex and showing pictures,animation, porn or something else that depicts sex. And even when a magazine of book shows nudity it could be argued that its purely fore educational uses and not fulfill some perverted desire. Although the reason why womens magazines like these are near the checkout isle and mens are not is because woman stereotypically make up the majority of people who buy groceries.