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Playboy Bunny said:
so then if people are gonna get offended at blurred out babies, and un blurred babies, i dont see why they have 2 show it at all.... .they could think of some other way to advertise it.
It's an ad for baby wipes. It is made specifically to wipe the babies behind when changing nappies. Same with the nappy ads. How else are they going to advertise them? I would rather see an ad with a baby having a nappy put on or their behind wiped than to see the same done to an adult as an ad for the product.
they dont HAVE to show naked babies, censored or otherwise.
You really do have a problem with nakedness.
there is a reason i feel this way, relating to something that happened to me when i was young...talkin like 6 or 7 here... involving a 50 something man, and that probably has something to do with how i feel this way. Like a way of protection or something, i dont know, im not a psychological doctor - but the fact remains that I find it wrong, and i know others do as well - i asked.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that the 50 something pervert did not do what he did because of a nappy ad or a baby wipe ad. You may find the ad's wrong, but the majority do not. You would have to be the first person I've ever heard of who finds them 'wrong' or offensive. It is one thing to feel protective, but another thing to feel such offense at the image of a baby's bottom in an ad.
There are perverts out there and they may be turned on by the ads. But these perverts may also be turned on by any child in any ad,
be they clothed or naked. Would that mean that to try and prevent some old perverted bastard or bitch from looking we should ban all children from appearing in ads? How about in print media? Or on baby food lables or nappy and baby wipes packaging? There are half naked images of babies on there as well. What about art? Paintings in art galleries that have naked people in them, as well as cupids who look like children? Should they be removed from public sight? Destroyed because the images of nakedness is so wrong?
Now Bells, to your point of people on beaches. If i go to the beach, and there are people sunbaking nude or children running naked, i can choose not to look, whereas, sitting on the lounge watching a television program interrupted by ads, where they show them and u cant exactly change the channel -( If my dads in the room anyway, hes got the remote usually)- and theres not a hell of a lot you can do not to look, except get up and walk out, which i usually do anyway.
You can always avert your eyes from the television set. Look at a wall or down at your hands. Your eyes are not glued to the TV so that you can't close them or look away from the set.
The point being that in real life, kids running around naked, are usually in their home or maybe like a 1 in 100 chance on the beach - (i dont think parents are so neglegent these days that they would let them run naked on a public beach, except when theyre changing them or whatever)
You obviously don't go to the beach much. It's not a matter of negligence Bunny. How is a parent negligent if they let their kids run naked on a beach? A paedophile is just as likely to look at the bikini clad child or fully clothed child as he/she is to look at a naked child. Should we therefore not take our children out of the house in case someone looks? Babies run around naked all the time. Hell drive down my street on a warm day and you see them everywhere. Small naked children playing in the sprinklers or with water balloons or with the garden hose spraying all around them all the time. It's not unnatural nor is it abnormal or something bad. They're kids. It's what they do. Children hate the restriction of clothing. It would be wrong to not let them be themselves.
or changing their nappies or breastfeeding them etc, i find it ok, i dont have a problem with that, thats not being broadcast nationally on a television commercial.
So you don't have a problem with nappy ads where the parent is shown changing the baby's nappy? How about images of breastfeeding shown on TV or in the print media? Should they be banned as well?
I have no problem helping my aunty bathe her 2 year old daughter, well, i guess its because im family. Just as i have no problem with my aunty breastfeeding her or watever else with me there. Close friends, babysitters, grandparents, doctors etc. i find okay as well, because, simply put, its ONE or TWO people seeing, not a WHOLE NATION.
Eh? A whole nation is not out to get the child. If a child is to be abused, it will usually be by someone they know and trust... not the whole nation.
Tell me something Bunny, do you find the Anne Geddes calenders, greeting cards and books offensive as well? They often portray children naked, as well as dressed in funny outfits.