Scantily Clad women and gun advertisements. acceptable or not?
Hot nekkid chicks? I'm fer it!
It's kind of funny to me, because when I was in my teens and early 20s I was one of those uptight prudish folks from a very religious home. I was well on my way to becoming a libertarian even back then, so I didn't think pornography/sexual content should be banned or anything, but I didn't like looking at those pictures, and felt guilty when I did (because that is how that sort of upbringing teaches a person to be about what should be enjoyable human feelings). Now that I've grown up and accepted an ethical code that is based more on reality, I have come to see things a little differently.
As for the legal issue, I think it is an absolute disgrace that we still have government censorship in 21st-Century America. It's pretty simple, really... if you don't want your kids exposed to what's on TV, don't let them watch it... or get rid of your TV. If you don't want them exposed to our sinful and immoral society, then keep them locked up in your house. You have the inalienable right to give your kids as much of a sheltered upbringing as you want. But you have no right to use force/government to prevent the rest of us from printing, reading, broadcasting, and watching, saying, and listening to whatever we want. That sort of behavior does not threaten the rights of anyone else, so people have a natural and inalienable right to engage in it to their heart's content.
Someone made the comment that all laws are made because someone believed something to be wrong. While that may be true, the difference between legitimate and illegitimate laws is that legitimate laws only prohibit things that are actual violations of the equal liberty of others... in other words, they prohibit people dealing with one another through force, rather than through voluntary interaction. Any law that does any more than this is illegitimate, because by definition it violates the equal rights of individuals.
Just wanted to clear that up.
The good news is that the type of people who support these laws are dying off every day... so I fully expect that in my lifetime I will see a change in the censorship laws, and hopefully also in the ridiculous laws on things like drugs and alcohol.