This is getting pretty far afield from wikipedia issues, so we should try to wrap it up or bring it back to something directly relevant to wikipedia soon.
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
Agreed. I just thought it a bit unfair to demonize the MPAA when for the most part it is the American public itself that's the problem. Our prudery is not a case of an authoritarian minority oppressing the freedom-loving masses; it's a case of the authoritarian masses oppressing the freedom-loving minority.
American culture isn't prudish, it's self-contradictory and hypocritical. When I said that American is the porn capital of the world, I meant it in terms of per-capita consumption and per-capita production.
Adult entertainment is a huge and mainstream business.
"The General Motors Corporation, the world's largest company, now sells more graphic sex films every year than does Larry Flynt, owner of the Hustler empire."
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/23/technology/23PORN.html
So, yeah, there is prudishness, but there's also a lot of non-prudishness coupled with hypocrisy.
--Jimbo