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