{"id":876,"date":"2005-12-28T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-29T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismaverick.com\/wp\/?p=876"},"modified":"2014-06-26T01:04:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T05:04:34","slug":"on-prurience-and-prudishness-and-a-little-about-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrismaverick.com\/wp\/2005\/12\/28\/on-prurience-and-prudishness-and-a-little-about-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"on prurience and prudishness… (and a little about pictures)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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so if you’ve been paying attention to me over the last… I dunno 15 years or so, you might have noticed that I’m really really really into sex. I’m also really really really into free speech. One might say that those are kinda my things.<\/p>\n

I’ve certainly posted before on topics that involve both of those things, but oddly, I don’t think I’ve ever asked people where they fall in their beliefs along those issues.<\/p>\n

So I was listening to the Howard100 News<\/a> on my new Sirius<\/a>. And I got to thinking about the circumstances that caused Stern<\/a> to leave terrestial radio in the first place.<\/p>\n

Why do we have standards of decency anyway?<\/p>\n

Yeah, yeah, yeah… for the children. You know what? Fuck the children. Seriously. According to the US Census for 2000, 25.7% of the population is under 18. That’s it. One out of every 4 people in this country is not “old enough to make sexual decisions.” Only I don’t really like that law either. I think it should be younger. Lets face it, sexual awareness doesn’t come at 18. Even without changing age of consent, I think we should at least accept that any kid who doesn’t have a full understanding of sex by age, lets say 14, is going to die a virgin. Unless of course the kid is a dimwitted big-boobied blonde. Then she’s just going to be a repeat date rape victim. So the only census data I can find for younger than 18 says that 6.8% are under 5. So Let’s just assume that maybe 17% or so are under 14. So around 1 in 6. And really fuck them.<\/p>\n

I’ve complained a bit before about beststephi<\/a>‘s sister-in-law and how I feel she is overly protective of her kids. What I don’t point out so much is that i totally support her right to do that. At (day after) Christmas dinner on Monday, Steph’s family was watching one of my wrestling matches on my laptop and Amy wouldn’t let Ethan, her 6-year-old son, watch because “it was inappropriate.” He was pissed, but I think that’s her right to do. Basically, it just sucks to be Ethan. But saying that I shouldn’t be allowed to show it at all, or that the practice of pro-wrestling should be banned, that would clearly be wrong.<\/p>\n

Is turning the channel really so hard to do if something offends you? Is not going to a movie or reading a book, (or not allowing your children do so) that difficult? Amy can handle it. Why can’t other parents? Actually most parents do. In July of this year, the PTC<\/a> proudly announced on their website that they had lobbied a record 23,542 to the FCC. The FCC’s website<\/a> records 23,547 complaints for that month. That means of all the complaints, 99.98%, all but 5, come from the same people. ALL BUT FIVE! Fuck them, too.<\/p>\n

But that wasn’t really my point. My point is, who decides what’s appropriate and what’s not in the first place? According to the FCC website, obscenity is defined as this:<\/p>\n

Obscene speech is not protected by the First Amendment and cannot be broadcast at any time. To be obscene, material must meet a three-prong test:<\/p>\n