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To: Elsewhere who wrote (123861)	1/28/2004 11:50:19 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

In the United States, the broadcast frequencies are owned by the public, and held in trust by the government, which sells them to stations. Such licensure carries conditions, and therefore can forbid certain activities that would be allowable in other circumstances under the First Amendment. Also, neither commercial speech nor speech meant to titillate is protected to the degree of political speech, or speech intended to advance a point of view........

To: Elsewhere who wrote (123861)	1/28/2004 3:24:58 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Do people discuss sex on the radio in Germany? We can talk about sex on the radio at any time of the day or night if it is done so in a scientific manner, such as would occur if you consulted with a physician or a psychologist. And I think the standards are more lenient late at night. There is a radio program I listen to occasionally in the car where the sex talk is of a more humorous, ribald nature, but it comes on rather late at night - certainly after 10:00 p.m. The theory is that children won't be awake then. And there is a warning that the program is of a sexually explicit nature. I find the show amusing, and there is a doctor who is very knowledgable. I have observed simulated sexual intercourse on the cable TV late at night. This I find embarrassing, and turn off immediately, especially because the kids are wandering around, and I don't want them to think I sought it ought, just to avoid uncomfortable conversations. They already think I am weird enough. "Mama watches porn" is not an image I want to project. At any rate, I have seen breasts, female genitalia, and buttocks of both sexes. These are cable shows for subscribers only, but not on stations dedicated to sex shows, e.g., Playboy. I don't know how closely the FCC regulates this. Oh, wait, then there's HBO. Quite a number of HBO shows have simulated sexual activity, now that I think about it. I think they're all on after 9:00 p.m. I don't think of these as "porn" because the sex takes place as part of an actual story. The "porn" ones appear to be only about sex.