(The Cunctator cunctator@kband.com):
Yes there are: try child prOn, indecency and obscenity laws.
Those are not restrictions on "nudity". Nude pictures of children are perfectly legal in the US, as long as they're not engaged in sexual acts or otherwise presented as erotic. And even some that are clearly erotic are acceptable in some circumstances ("Pretty Baby" and "American Beauty" come to mind).
But this isn't a disgreement about facts, just which facts are important. I should have said "I think it's grossly misleading".
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. It is not a failure of democracy, but a natural negative consequence of it.