How come national geographic can show naked africans all day.......

[Vesayen]

On PBS and similar non cable TV channels(every country has something like PBS......it is funded by public money/donations, you dont need cable to see it, its free) they can show naked african women ALL day which is against the cencorship rules for public broadcasting as well as naked children-which is a felony(child pornography)...........why is this legal?


More importantly when is National Geographic going to do a documentary on the mating habits of LA's sexiest woman?

[Timexwatch]

Because it's *cough* Educational *cough*.

It's also the same reason that they've showed tits on MTV. Didn't you see the breast implant documentary?

[Az]

More importantly when is National Geographic going to do a documentary on the mating habits of LA's sexiest woman?

[Spiffor]

There is a difference between showing naked people (something purely natural everyone is confronted to daily, at least with one's own nudity) and showing porn, which needs some construction of the libido to be apprehended.
Showing naked children has nothing to do with child porn. Especially in National Geographic : I doubt they film naked children just for the heck of it, but rather to show their way of life. Am I wrong ?

[Static Universe]

It's Western cultural racism. They think Africans are animals so they show them in their native state.

[DeathByTheSword]

but what if it is you way of life to have sex with total strangers and have very bad dialoges and stuff? why cant that be shown?

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by Azazel

I'll compromise.......a documentary on the mating habit's of Tel-Aviv's sexiest woman

[Inverse Icarus]

because african women aren't hot.


i'll do it myself. .00000000001/10

[Spiffor]

Porn shows naked people "exercizing" (is there any uncensored word more close to the act here ?) for the sake of it. And animal documentaries do so to some extent too
But National Geographic documentaries show villages, ways of lifes and cultures, which happen to be populated by naked people. The closest comparison would be with a documentary about the life in a nudist camp. Would you only show dressed people in such a documentary ?

[Static Universe]

Originally posted by DeathByTheSword
but what if it is you way of life to have sex with total strangers and have very bad dialoges and stuff? why cant that be shown?

I've seen several pornos documentary films like that.

[Az]

I'll compromise.......a documentary on the mating habit's of Tel-Aviv's sexiest woman

she'll be a complete babe in any case, so I really wouldn't care.

as long as she has a nice personality, of course.

[EDWINADOLLY]

Well,I don't know about you?....but in the cold Village where I live,we have sex to keep warm,when there is nothing to watch on TV and just for fun,this is our natural way of life and culture! hahahaha

*But National Geographic documentaries show villages, ways of lifes and cultures, which happen to be populated by naked people.*

[JohnT]

Re: How come national geographic can show naked africans all day.......

Originally posted by Vesayen
On PBS and similar non cable TV channels(every country has something like PBS......it is funded by public money/donations, you dont need cable to see it, its free) they can show naked african women ALL day which is against the cencorship rules for public broadcasting as well as naked children-which is a felony(child pornography)...........why is this legal?


More importantly when is National Geographic going to do a documentary on the mating habits of LA's sexiest woman?

I haven't read the rest of the replies here, but "intent" is likely the difference - the intent of the shows is an examination of different cultures, not pornography.

To use an analogy: A set of new parents who snap a couple of pictures of their newborn taking their first bath and showing them to family members is not guilty of kiddie porn, though all the elements of k-p are there. OTOH, if somebody uploads the pictures onto the internet with the purpose of selling them, THEN you have a case of kiddie porn.

[Spiffor]

"Having sex" is different with "being naked". I fail to understand why so many people confuse both.

[Az]

This is a good time to point out that DeathByTheSword's avatar is actually a female sex organ.