On Feb 28, 2010, at 2:17 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
Why doesn't Apple Corp. develop a means of either preventing or
making it difficult for users of their computers to be able to access
or use "overtly sexual" material or applications?
Because Apple has customers around the world who aren't as sexually
repressed as people in the US. It's refreshing to find that there are
naturist beaches in Miami Beach and on Assateague Island, some more in
California. Thank goodness for European tourists--topless sunning is
here! Yet there are insane people in Colorado who censor puppets--and
beach towns in the South where women can be arrested for wearing thong
bikinis.
Bodies are natural. Sex is natural. The more you obsess about how normal
things are perverted, the more your children will obsess. When my son
was ten, we visited some friends in Zurich, and in Munich. In the
Englischer Garten in Munich, people sunbathe nude--no big deal; he found
some kids to play soccer instead of gawking. We went to the beach in
Nice. He looked around and said, "The women aren't wearing their
swimsuit tops." Then he went swimming and mostly ignored them. That
prepared him five years later when traveling with his soccer team in
Sweden and the girls' teams were topless in the swimming pool. His
teammates gawked from their balconies, and he calmly spent the afternoon
chatting and swimming with the girls, and Euro guys.
What's pornographic other than violence? If violent video games are
perfectly legal, why censor the human body? You're the one who has to
explain this to your children and to guide them. Then don't worry so
much about them seeing nudes and sex. They'll be fine as long as you can
be honest with them and explain that when sex involves violence it's
bad, and when it's too casual it might cause emotional problems [or
not]. What's so difficult about that?
Enjoy the scenery,
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010_swimsuit/painting/,
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009_swimsuit/painting/. Would you hide
this from children?
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