My point (if I have one) is twofold: 1) 'decency' is more a matter of opinion than anything so that, with the exception of obvious deviant behaviors I won't bother to mention,it is open to interpretation and standards set by the conglomerates and federal agencies. 2) No matter what is set in place as rules of 'decency', someone somewhere at sometime WILL decide to break them or at least push them to their limits.
Footnote: In the early 30's a movie called "Ecstasy" had a scene with an obviously nude Hedy Lamarr swimming. It was not the first movie at that time to show some sort of nude form ( Maureen O'Sullivan swam partially nude in a "Tarzan" film), but it WAS enough to set the groundwork for the motion picture studios to adopt a 'practices and standards' guideline. But, though it took maybe 40 years, those standards were pushed and pushed to their limits, resulting, in the mid-60's, to the basics of the ratings system now in place.
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