{"id":1249,"date":"2008-01-26T18:00:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-26T18:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/01\/26\/the-buttocks-is-not-an-excreto\/"},"modified":"2008-01-26T18:00:21","modified_gmt":"2008-01-26T18:00:21","slug":"the-buttocks-is-not-an-excreto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/26\/the-buttocks-is-not-an-excreto\/","title":{"rendered":"The Buttocks is not an excretory organ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;  but it might be a sexual organ&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a $1.4 million fine against 52 ABC Television Network stations over a 2003 broadcast of cop drama NYPD Blue&#8230;.The fine is for a scene where a boy surprises a woman as she prepares to take a shower. The scene depicted &#8220;multiple, close-up views&#8221; of the woman&#8217;s &#8220;nude buttocks&#8221; according to an agency order issued late Friday&#8230;.The agency said the show was indecent because &#8220;it depicts sexual organs and excretory organs , specifically an adult woman&#8217;s buttocks.&#8221;The agency rejected the network&#8217;s argument that &#8220;the buttocks are not a sexual organ.&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080126\/ap_en_tv\/nypd_blue_fcc\">[source]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more-->Hey, I looked on YouTube for a clip of the offending scene, and could not find it.  But I did find this:<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QNfsPybiyzg&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; but it might be a sexual organ&#8230; The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a $1.4 million fine against 52 ABC Television Network stations over a 2003 broadcast of cop drama NYPD Blue&#8230;.The fine is for a scene where a boy surprises a woman as she prepares to take a shower. The scene depicted &#8220;multiple, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/26\/the-buttocks-is-not-an-excreto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Buttocks is not an excretory organ<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[188,173],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-k9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}