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I find it interesting how sensitive we are to sex, considering how much we accept violence.
Quite a bit of rough stuff was bandied about in one of the final Supreme Court decisions of the term released last month â€" dismembering, bondage, decapitation, a bounty of bloodletting in video games that bring the thrill of the kill to new levels. No problem there, in the view of the court: for children who want to simulate brutal homicide, it’s protected free speech. Sex, not so good. Naked women. Naked men. Fornication. Ewww! The black-robed majority made it clear that the United States of America will always make an exception for sex: “historically unprotected speech,†in the words of Justice Antonin Scalia, who wrote the 7-2 video game opinion. |
I find it interesting how sensitive we are to sex, considering how much we accept violence.