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Originally Posted by ARTelevision
I would never defend shoving it in anyone's face who didn't want it. We are highly conscious of age-appropriateness as regards content.
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That's the thing, no one's shoving it in anyone's face. I'm not sure why people keep saying that, as if someone is forcing your eyes open making you watch it all. There are tons of shows that are TV-MA
Someone has to make a conscious choice to click on "titty board" or any of the other adult-oriented links. Someone doesn't click on "Titty Board" then sit back in awe, shocked and angered because pornographic images were shown.
If they were automatically presented with those images upon login, different story.
The same applies to TV. If you're watching something like "Temptation Island" and it just so happened to show nudity, no one is forcing anything upon anyone due to the very nature of the show. If the person would get offended at those images to begin with, they wouldn't be watching the show period. I'm sure my grandma gets offended at those types of images, but you'll never see her watching Temptation Island. She KNOWS what it is.
I'm not quite sure why people are so against the "if you don't like it, don't watch it" idea. Coupled with warnings like I've mentioned for the past few posts, there's simply no excuse for anyone to be caught off guard.
I'm sure you agree with the idea of "If you aren't aware a law exists and you break it, you should get punished regardless. Ignorance is not an excuse." The same should apply to tv. If you're not smart enough to at least briefly research or lookup the show you are watching, that's not an excuse and you need to deal with the consequences. It needs to go both ways.
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Also, I would blame the rating system we have. I've caught a glimpse at CSI here and there, and being rated TV-PG, it shows quite a bit that you wouldn't show in a PG movie... more like PG-13 borderline R. The system exists for a reason, they need to use it.