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Originally Posted by zigziggityzoo
It was legal back in the day before the FCC existed. Now they are all uptight about it (ie Janet) and sue everyone....ahh to be back in the days of sex drugs and rock & roll....
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Sorry ZigZig, but that is not true. The FCC predated commercial televion. In fact, it predated the first demonstration of television, which was just before World War II. As prudish as this country was about movies (The Hays Office), television was even more prudish in the early years.
Oh sure, they could slip in a boob now and again, but it had to be a boob in the scientific context (National Geographic style) or very high culture, or non-white (Roots showed a generous supply of Black boobs) or on PBS (The Six Wives of Henry VIII, or Elizabeth R, or I Claudius -- all BBC -- of Steambath) or pay cable. In the 1950s, Lucille Ball and her husband had to sleep in twin beds, and even though she was obviously pregnant, that word was not allowed, because one couldn't get pregnant without sex, and that didn't officially exist according to the FCC. Hell, Playtex had to advertise bras without showing them for tweny or thirty years.
Roxanne