Censors, both official and unofficial, are sad pathetic control freaks whose lives (and particularly their sex lives) must be so empty and boring they can't stand seeing other people happy and enjoying themselves. Years ago in the UK there was an insidious organisation calling themselves the Festival of Light (a.k.a. the Mary Whitehouse Brigade), mostly blue-rinsed middle-aged and elderly Conservative women with time on their hands and this gave them a bit of excitement and got them away from the ironing and their W.I. jam making sessions. They were so blinkered they didn't realise that in everything they wanted banned, they were in fact acting as publicity agents. When an Andy Warhol t.v. show had a scene with a woman daubing her naked breasts in paint and painting a canvass with them, the Festival of Light was apoplectic, went to court, some old judges (who were probably rock hard in their robes under the bench) allowed it to be shown and when it was it went straight to the top of the t.v. ratings which it wouldn't have done if only Mary Whitehouse and her ilk had kept their ignorant mouths shut. When the film "The Devils" directed by the recently deceased Ken Russell was in the cinemas, the Whitehouse woman was again on t.v. stating that one of the Festival of Light's "most honourable members" had to **** themselves to go and see it (I bet they did) and then tell everyone else we shouldn't as it was "corrupting". Funny how these people can watch these things without becoming corrupted but seem to think the rest of us will. Similarly when stage shows featuring full frontal nudity of both sexes like "Hair!", "Oh! Calcutta" and "The Dirtiest Show In Town" hit the theatres, they were sell-outs because of all the fuss made about the nude scenes, more enlightened people flocked to see them. Of course, **** need to have a childhood and be "protected" - if that is the right word - from viewing such material but censors always use **** as a shield for their bigotry and, in any case, its down to the parents to "censor" what their **** can or can't see but once people reach adulthood, what they do and watch and provided it is not harming anyone else and is consenting and mutual e.g. adult group sex, then that is their right and no business of anybody else's. I rest my case.

Another odd thing about the ' **** ' in place of certain words....I made a comment in a recent thread that had to do with ignorance, bigotry and the like and I said that if people raised their **** differently then maybe we wouldn't have so much of that kind of thinking.....any intelligent human will know when reading my comment what I was talking about, so why waste time with ' **** 's

In which world do you think you are living? 80es are over long ago. Let me give you a reality check, 2 fresh examples:

only registered users can see external links - 9 y.o. boy suspended from school for a week because he "sexually harassed" his teacher saying "she's cute" in a conversation not with her, but with another boy. Wait a bit more, and you will not be able to speak at all.

only registered users can see external links - Christian worker loses her job after being harassed by islamic extremists who work at the same place which is... surprise surprise - an airport. Not speaking about perverted sense of "tolerance", anti-terrorism well done!

Do you mean that you actually thought that you can find censorship without hypocrisy? Where?