See the Supreme Court decision that's had this chilling effect.
So this ridiculous flap stopped the Calvin Klein ads from being put up in Times Square. Well, maybe they ought to accuse my parents of CENSORED too. Look at all of these photographs of a certain small child in either underwear or a bathing suit (no one called them “swim suits” in those days). This is me at about four years of age on the rooftop in back of the 2 room apartment that my parents and I lived in at 339 9th St. in Park Slope, Brooklyn. I'm probably about the same age as the boys in the Calvin Klein ads. Is this CENSORED ? Should my mother, who took the photograph, be arrested? Should I be arrested for putting what the right wing group “Morality in Media” calls “child CENSORED on the Web? Hey, look at that snazzy underwear! In this one I'm 8 years old, and look at CENSORED ! Surely this must CENSORED Wowee, I bet that guy from the “Morality in Media” group must be creaming in his shorts, er, I mean he must be really incensed about this one! And this one is CENSORED ! I'm still 8 years old, almost 9, it's the Summer of 1956, and I'm at an outdoor shower washing the lake off me. CENSORED ! That skimpy bathing suit is really CENSORED . And CENSORED didn't just look good, they felt great! Within a year of this photograph being taken I was having sex with another boy, who was probably CENSORED . Hey, is that a CENSORED that tight bathing suit? So is this all CENSORED ? Hah! You can apparently stop anything by shouting CENSORED to the gullible media these days. |
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