Guitar Malfunction

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

As for whether what Prince did should be considered appropriate for TV, or should require some sort of "Turn your children away" disclaimer...I don't know. It's a never-ending debate with no clear dividing line. My view of it oscillates constantly.

But what I do know is that I find it ridiculous that, while the Prince "thing" is getting covered, it's NOT generating the outrage that the boob did, and that belies to me a seriously screwed up double standard. What a wonderful message. Simply seeing a part of the human female anatomy for a second, with nothing else to intimate a sexual context is the height of debauchery and lead to one of the largest fines the FCC has ever levied, but a 60 foot silhouetted simulation of male masturbation is just kinda debatable.

Like I said, I don't claim to have an answer as to whether it should be controlled, regulated, disclaimered, censored, etc. But damnit I wish people would get their priorities straight and stop this nonsense of declaring the human body (and more specifically the female body) as de facto pervesrion.

I agree that there's no meaningful difference between the two acts, but there certainly was a sexual context to the breast. They did a sexy duet, he ripped part of her clothes off, and she was wearing that strange nipple dart.

Most fines don't deter. When Randy Moss was fined $10K for fake mooning the Green Bay fans, he said, "What's ten thousand to me. Next time I'll shake my d*ck at them." Vince McMahon regularly gets fined by cities where bloodletting is not allowed in wrestling matches. He puts on the show he wants for his loyal audience, pays his fine and heads to the next city to do it again. I doubt the FCC could/would fine a network or the NFL enough to prevent future "malfunctions."