| that we are talking about here. Guys are more resilient to that sort of thing." Well that's the myth that I told you wasn't true. In reality males don't like to be victims of voyeurism by members of the opposite sex any more than females do. But the biggest problem that I had with that scene was how those boys felt being told by a grown woman to disrobe like that on a set full of strangers which included three girls. To us that scene may have been a laughing matter but to the actors involved it may have been a sexually devastating event to have to get naked like that in front of the whole country. Another example that I can give is a movie which showed a group of twelve year-old boys on a New York rooftop in their underpants having fun sunbathing and spraying each other with a water hose. As the scene progressed a nun came onto the roof to chase them off and the boys retaliated by mooning her. If you think that I am overreacting by describing that scene then let's take that same scene and reverse the genders; let's say that the scene showed a group of twelve year-old girls parading around on a rooftop in their bra and panties prior to mooning a male priest who came to chase them off ? I don't think that America would have taken that scene too well not even you. As I said earlier what girls don't like to do or asked to do in public because it is sexually humiliating, guys don't like those same requests made of them either for the same reasons. So therefore since you have already decided that it's an abomination and sexual abuse for any adult to ask a little girl to drop her panties and moon a camera regardless of the "artistic, non-sexual" intent there is absolutely no reason that you should'nt be equally enraged when that same adults asks a little boy to drop his underpants and moon the camera for public distribution. One of the mentalities that we Americans need to rid ourselves of is this notion that because everybody does it it is not abusive because quite the opposite is true. Realize there once was a time in America where it was legal and considered non-abusive for men to hit their wives, such people made a distinction between wife "hitting" and abusive battering in those days, so that should tell you something. Now a counterargument to this whole debate is; "Why has America made nudity so taboo? Don't you think that it's possible for Americans to get over this taboo and not get all bent out of shape when they a see a naked child in a movie?" You know that's a very interesting and stupid question not much different than asking; "Why has America placed such a taboo on throwing people the finger? I mean we have given the gesture such a negative connotation meaning 'Fuck you!' can't we instead give it a positive connotation meaning; 'Job well done?' and not get all bent out of shape when we see adults throw children the finger?" The point that I'm trying to make is that if the society that you live in sees a certain act as both offensive and abusive it is your duty to respect that and not go around offending people because of your own unique personal view of what should and shouldn't be considered taboo. Now another counterargument to this whole debate is; "Don't you think that it's possible to teach self-conscious children not to be ashamed of their bodies so much so that they wouldn't have a problem doing a nude scene for the film that you are shooting?" Yes. I think that it's quite possible. I also think that it's quite possible to teach those same children how to handle being told by adults; "Fuck you" without being hurt by the experience or suffer any negative psychological aftereffects but it would be child abuse either way because society condemns such an act as abusive. The point I am trying to make is that there are certain ways that adults have no business treating children for any reason. There are however two rare instances in which I think that it should be legal to include nude children in public entertainment; non-sexual nude scenes showing native nudity in tribal Africa, South America or wherever as long as indigenous natives are used in those photo shoots. Why the exception? Because by seeing those native children nude you are seeing them the way that they wouldn't mind being seen if you were to go to their native country and see them walking down the street. Unlike the case with American children there is no potential for sexual devastation on that child's part by being nude in public entertainment; nor is there potential sexual harrasment by their native countrymen for doing those nude scenes since public nudity means something different in their culture. . Another rare instance in which children should be allowed to be nude in public entertainment is nude images of babies two years-old and younger since it is accepted by the status quo for children that young to be nude in public. You go to a public beach you see two year-olds roam around nude. A mother brings her baby to a party, she changes it's diapers right in front of house quests. So what difference does it make for toddlers that young to be nude on the big screen? I basically have no problem with naked babies acting in diaper commercials. Well anyway I want your input on what you think about this. Apart from those two aforementioned exceptions I think that this should be made illegal. My first guestbook is about full. So I advise you to use my other guestbook. My second guestbook Return to page 3 , page 2 Home Link; http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/2997/tvg100690.htm |