Tennessee Boob

Her's another story on Tennessee state senator Doug Jackson who wants to fine cable TV stations for showing commercial for the "Girls Gone Wild" videos. For the record, the nudity in the "Girls Gone Wild" videos is not consistent with nudist/naturist philosophies. The videos are exploitative and sexual in content. But the efforts to take away First Amendment rights are of primary importance to nudists, who are often misunderstood as being swingers or perverts. It is the intent of this blog to try and normalize nudity, to "strip-away" the myths return the human body to something society appreciates for the creation it is, and not as some sort of sexual object or product.

Anyway, the good news about the Tennessee effort is that proponents of the First Amendment are already on the case.

"This is an effort to try to shut down someone from free-speech activities … by hanging a threat over their heads," said King, a First Amendment lawyer. "The First Amendment is no good if it doesn't protect unpopular speech."

But these videos are not "unpopular". According to Wikipedia, the company Mantra Films grosses $40 million a year.

"You never know when they're coming on, and parents do their best," Jackson said. "Seeing two naked girls kissing each other and bouncing in bed together — if somebody wants to come into Tennessee and argue that there's some socially redeeming value to that, I think they have a hard case to make."

Hmm, I wasn't aware that "freedom of speech" only applied to socially redeeming activity. It's a non-argument argument.

A father of three, Jackson said he doesn't think parents who pay for cable should have to block out channels with more mature content.

This is a gross intrusion onto personal freedoms. While on one hand he acknowledges that parents have the power to block the mature content, he then concludes that he is somehow more qualified to make that decision for them. Truly frightening.

"I don't need the senator's help in determining what me or my family watch on TV," wrote John Green. "If I find anything offensive, I push the button on the remote. Government should … leave morality to individuals and churches."

Amen.

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