That nipples — or is it mere areola? — are, much like actual genitalia, one of the defining lines between "acceptable" and "OMG NUDITY HIDE YOUR CHILDREN!!!" is something Americans learn at an early age. This explains why print advertisements around New York for the Brazlian rum Cabana Cachaça go without nipples, while advertisements for newspapers in Europe include full breasts. (Okay, not always; NSWF.) On television, nipples are an even bigger affront to civility, which explains why the Eva Mendes spot for Calvin Klein's new fragrance Secret Obsession was banned from U.S. airwaves in a convenient publicity-driving announcement. The scent's print spots, too, do not show nip.
But why, in an age where music acts and television shows can be named "Pussycat Dolls," are we still afraid of nipples?
If legal lore is to be believed, women are allowed to go topless around New York City (since men can go shirtless; it's an equality thing), except in a "commercial" setting, though this applies to things like topless bars, and not necessarily commercial advertising.
Even a federal appeals court turned over the FCC's ruling that Janet Jackson's Super Bowl nipple was indecent, relieving CBS of a $550,000 fine.
The only real notoriety that nipples have, then, is that not showing them becomes more titillating, and press-worthy, than actually showing them. And this, we cannot stand for.
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Nipples are 'gateway' flesh and as such should require a prescription to be viewed or licked or iced or buttered or primped or flickered or bitten ever so sweetly while pulling rythmically.
Uh, what's so risque about "Pussycat Dolls"?
And how is this photo NSFW?
http://www.jossip.com/?attachment_id=26863
You, are, retarded.
maybe the whole thing is a pr scam to get you talking about the whole thing. maybe they have a safe ad made. maybe it was to rile the media and get some hype? maybe you fell for it?
So, Mens' nipples are kosher!! Arnie sported a virile pair in his youth.
America was founded by the prudish Puritans. Their repressive hatred of pleasure and all things natural pervades our culture to this day
Oh come on already….just show the whole thing…male and female…get it over with. You know you want to. ;-)
Religious Leaders still have a heavy grip on the American society and can still call the shots on what can be sean by the viewers. Until that grip is broken, they will tell us what we can see and what we can't. Why do we follow these people who keep telling us what is good for us to see and what is not. They seam to preach that to see a womans nipple will send us to hell. It's the same for nudity. The United States is still living in a religious world and they are able to tell us what is good for us and what is not. Religion has a place in my life, but I'm an adult and I can choose what I can see and what I can't see. If a priest feels that it's wrong for him to see a exposed nipple or a nude a nude body, then let him ture his head or shield his eyes. Those are things of nature, not of sin.