From, “Sex Is Bad,” by Evan Shapiro, 5/1/12, Huffington Post:
Welcome to TV in America, where violence, no matter how
malicious or senseless, is just fine -- no matter the context or time of day --
but sex is decried, maligned,
protested and verboten in all but the most secure corners of the schedule or
dial. Programs that are intentionally violent appear in every part of the TV
schedule -- primetime, daytime, weekends -- but TV's ban on sexuality not only
covers scenes of nudity or sexual acts, but our very language itself. Since
1978, when the Supreme Court decided that George Carlin's Seven Words You Can
Never Say on Television was too much for sensitive ears, enormous fines have
been issued for uttering the word "fuck" on TV, even during live events.
Maligned: spoken evil of
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