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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
How else do you explain death, murder, rape being depicted as "ok" in mainstream TV but you cannot show a nipple or an overt sexual act?
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Politics, broadcast TV content is governed by the FCC. For example, the FCC fined CBS $550,000 for Janet Jackson showing a nipple during Super Bowl halftime.
It was worse back in the early days. On "I Love Lucy", Ricky and Lucy being a real married couple as well as playing one could not share the same bed on television. Whenever you saw their bedroom, they had twin beds.
For SNL, NBC used to pay $5,000 to the FCC just to have Gilder Radner say "bitch" at midnight.