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Originally Posted by AnUnidentifiedMale
As long as an appropriate rating is given to a TV program, I don't think a simulated sex scene should be illegal on TV. It's not as if they're actually having real sex. They're fully clothed.
Doesn't matter. Simulated sex is obscene to a majority of Americans. I realize this is a foreign concept for you but there are even gay folks who agree with me on this.
Watched part of the AMA Awards Sunday night, but didn't see the kiss......not until right now when HLN showed it. Boy that was some "lip lock" he gave his keyboard player! Should he have done it, well........no, but that is TV today. Want to see a shocker/surprise on tv, watch the AMA Awards and it could easily be on there!! I've watched a few of the old Las Vegas tv shows and seen some women in the hotel kissing pretty passionately. Even watched one show where at the end, Sam and Belinda (or Mary) gave each other a big "lip lock"!
We are an older couple (60/61) with no kids, so scenes like these don't bother us as much as they would parents with kids watching the program. But, you know the old saying "welcome to 2009 and where the future of tv is headed"........right?
Doesn't matter. Simulated sex is obscene to a majority of Americans. I realize this is a foreign concept for you but there are even gay folks who agree with me on this.
How about Elvis gyrating his hips? Would that qualify as "simulated sex"?
I'd like to see a poll that says, "If a TV program is rated 'for mature audiences', should simulated sex still be banned?" I bet a majority of Americans would say no.
The problem is that too many Americans want the government to be their nanny. They can't even take two seconds to look at the rating given to a TV program. They think all TV programming should be dumbed down to the level of a 5-year-old.
I guess CBS isn't so liberal - contrary to what some conservatives believe.
Yes, Adam's kiss was blurred, but CBS ran an uncensored clip of Madonna and Britney's lesbian kiss as shown in the link. Thank you CBS for substantiating Adam's claim that it's okay for women to perform lesbian related acts on TV, but not for gay men. I think Adam has a good case for discrimination. I guess the "straight" men that run these networks get their kicks from girl on girl sex. LOL.
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All along Adam has said, "...if it had been a female pop performer doing the moves that were on the stage, I don't think there would be nearly as much of an outrage." Dude may have a point.
If not for the news, I would have never known this happened. What pases for popular music sucks anyways. Maybe the more people are turned off, the more they will look to music that is not regurgitated on the top 40. Or maybe I am dreaming.
As a gay man, I have some agreements and disagreements on this issue.
Yes there are double standards.......but what makes him think that his actions are going to do anything to change it, or make it right?
IMO he gives straight people MORE of a reason to call us everything from perverts to f*gs and a few other choice words. There is no sense in performing on NATIONAL TV in that manner. The same also goes for straight performers as well.
Call me old fashion, but if I wanna see 2 men kissing, 2 women kissing, or even a man and a woman kissing or doing any other LUDE act, I'll watch porn.
Kissing is lude?
Ellen Degeneres lost her show due to having gays on it, but now she has her own show, again, and people have accepted her. Here coming out of the closet may not have helped her at first, but look at her now.
janet jackson did a crotch grab, why didn't anyone complain of that? I would think you all would be more upset that it was a bondage scene of half nude women and chains than a man kissing a man. oh, well.
Last edited by Mattie Jo; 11-25-2009 at 01:10 PM..
Actually I have four daughters, ages 4, 7, and 8 years old.
So tell me why I would have to explain oral sex and homosexuality to them at this age because a grown man can't keep his sexual politics, shananigans off a "family" award show.
Sorry....not really,..I'm not like you.
I believe children don't have to know every sexual act under the sun before they graduate from elementary school.
Bunch of baloney. There's nothing to explain. You don't explain when straight people kiss on TV, either. Don't be a hater. Sorry to hear you raise your children like this. We don't need more haters. Already got enough of them.
IMO he gives straight people MORE of a reason to call us everything from perverts to f*gs and a few other choice words.
Really? You think it legitimately gives straight people more of a reason to call you a f*g?
First of all, I wouldn't have much respect for someone who called you a f*g based on what Adam Lambert is doing. You certainly can't control his behavior.
And secondly, I would say - don't worry. A certain segment of society will always have rude things to say about gay men, even if Adam Lambert becomes a monk.
Bunch of baloney. There's nothing to explain. You don't explain when straight people kiss on TV, either. Don't be a hater. Sorry to hear you raise your children like this. We don't need more haters. Already got enough of them.
The baloney is you believe it's totally normal to expose children to sex acts.
Are you saying something about your personal habits and children??
So no explanation is needed when my young children see a man attempting to shove his tongue and crouch in every other man's face on the stage...yeah right!
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