Complaints over nudity.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/ 5780704/Channel-4-hit-with-complaints-over-nud e-life-drawing-programme.html

Why in this day when we are teaching our children all there is to know about sex and alternative sexualities, do we still seem uptight about allowing them to see the nude human body?

[Haggisdj]

There was this barmy woman on 5Live the other week complaining about FHM and saying that it should be a top-shelf magazine. When questioned about images of the naked human body she stated that if it was painted then it was art and tasteful but if it was photographed then it was pornography and disgusting.

Don't really know why I'm posting this but it seemed relevant when I started typing?

[Gromit]

Because some of the Mary Whitehouse brigade were born with their clothes on.

They also have a perverse view that the nude human body is rude and disgusting rather than beautiful and natural.

Fortunately when you say 'we still seem uptight' you mean an incredibly small minority of prudes.

[anotheoldgit]

It would be interesting to find the real figure, but I doubt very much if it is an incredibly small minority of prudes.

Care to do some further research Gromit?

[anotheoldgit]

It would be interesting to find the real figure, but I bet it is much more than the incredibly small minority of prudes.that you state.

Care to do a little research into this, Gromit?

Perhaps you could start amongst the Muslim community maybe?

[anotheoldgit]

Sorry for the duplication, ABs fault again.

[fredpuli47]

The Telegraph link puts the number of complaints as 'dozens'. However that's read, it can't be very many.In any case, it can't be as many as a hundred, unless standards in English usage have dropped a lot at the Telegraph.

There's always going to be some such people.The figure must be a tiny percentage of the total number of viewers. 'We' is hardly the word. They don't represent 'us', the public at large.

[naomi24]

This is an art programme, and if people aren't interested in art, or find the naked human form offensive for some reason, they aren't forced to watch. I'm not an avid fan of television, and rarely look at the listings, but I was aware of the content of the programme before it was aired because it was advertised. Perhaps the complainers switched on simply so they could complain.

[socket2008]

The problem here is that even if one complaint is received things can be banned.

There are too few complaining about things out there that ruin it for the many.

And as for Mary Whitehouse grrrrr. I always put her in the same bracket as Hitler and jack the ripper. A most hated woman by me.

[Gromit]

naomi24

AOG spotted a foreign name in the Telegraph's report so he naturally concludes that all the complainees are muslims.

[anotheoldgit]

AOG spotted a foreign name in the Telegraph's report so he naturally concludes that all the complainees are muslims

No such word as complainees, you mean complainants, and a capital M for Muslims please, sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.

More assumptions without an atom of truth.

I was merely answering another assumption of yours that I meant an incredibly small minority of prudes. When in fact if one was to take a straw poll amongst the Muslim community it would be a vast number, who would find displaying the nude body offensive.