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[ratcreature]

So I was browsing the CNN news site and stumbled upon some minor headline in a sidebar which read "Students find naked images in German textbook", and made me curious as to what exactly was so outrageous, because you don't find that many naked humans outside of biology and art textbooks in my experience, and sometimes art appears as illustration elsewhere, but overall not so much.

Anyway, I wondered whether it was a statue or art or maybe they had photographed a park and overlooked someone sunbathing in the background, but it turns out they were all atwitter over the photo of a newsstand in which you could make out a magazine cover showing some breasts. What a sad state of affairs if that reduces Texan teenagers to giggles... They probably need to be careful to avoid all language exchange programs as well as holidays or they might die from shock.

When I was in eighth grade or so it took educational hand outs on sex positions and diagrams about male/female arousal curves to reduce us to a giggling mess.

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[astridv.livejournal.com]

lol.

They probably need to be careful to avoid all language exchange programs as well as holidays or they might die from shock.

Remember that billboard ad for AIDS awareness, a couple years back? The one where they pulled condoms over various fruit. We had guest from the US visiting and they were kinda shocked at that (though in an amused way).

Huh, even German news magazines like Spiegel occasionally come with boobies all over the cover. I mean, oftentimes I've wondered, why do they need a naked chick or naked guy to illustrate the problematic of global warming / bird flu/ whatnot. What about those, I wonder?

[ratcreature]

Yeah, I wish cover images and ads were less sexist too, actually back when I still regularly bought a tv magazine I was frequently outraged, both over covers and ads: My biggest wtf was an ad for something, I forgot for what, that had a nearly naked woman chained onto some motorcycle, and iirc it had nothing to do with anything this was advertising for, it was just bizarre. And seeing how I forgot what the ad was for, while still remembering my outrage years later, it wasn't even effective. I mean, it's no the nakedness that I find bothersome, clearly you can have non-exploitative depictions, and wouldn't even want anyone to have to be furtive about selling or buying their porn magazines, but the same ubiquitousness you mention is something I find just pointless and the arrangement and contexts are often icky.

Also naked and near naked bodies really lost almost any attention grabbing aspect with the constant exposure, at least for me. It's actually more noticeable when they are avoided by ads for products usually going for them, e.g. I really noticed the male underwear ad that had an huge egg carton to advertise for some protective feature or other and not a crotch shot or guy in it.

I still find it funny that these Texan schools were so bothered by a random boob on what I bet wasn't even a porn magazine, because not only was it probably tiny, but if the teenagers notice the teacher could probably even use it to talk about cultural differences, or sexism in magazines or whatever.