I'm trying to wrap my mind around a poster with an open tampon on it. My mind may explode
Society has lost its common sense on this. NOTHING is private anymore. Our generation took EVERYTHING and "let it all hang out" (how long's it been since you read that phrase?
) As I said in an earlier post, we shill drugs for genital herpes, get to listen to commericals for tampons and Preparation H , all in prime time. There was a time when not only were children told "that's none of your business" but adults, too, "just didn't talk about that" in public.
That's apparently gone. And that's a loss. In those days, people knew perfectly well what a vibrator was, how to use it, and where to buy one. They knew what Preparation H was, didn't need reminding in the middle of the nightly news. They knew what KY jelly was, and didn't need a 30-second soft porn movie to tell them what they could use it for. Neither do we, of course, but that's what we get.
There is a huge difference between fiercely defending the right of anybody to own whatever sex toy they want, and thinking that it belongs on a poster in public. There just IS. And this is not "puritanical"
It's a matter of good taste, a matter of keeping the public square a family place (and this High Road has always aimed to BE a family-oriented place, not an "adults only" venue). We as a society have utterly abandoned good taste and restraint in favor of utterly unlimited expression of everything, anytime, anywhere, in any way.
Does that help?
Springmom