A Boob's Life by Leslie Lehr

Author:Leslie Lehr
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2021-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

Breast Censorship

Nipples: The Intersection of the Sacred and Profane

1930s Nudity in film is prohibited by the Hays Code; promiscuous characters die young.

1958 Cartoon cows require skirts drawn over udders to pass censors.

1963 Jayne Mansfield’s breasts are banned in Cleveland for 60-second shot in Promises! Promises!

1972 George Carlin’s “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television” includes “tits.”

1977 Bare breasts are shown on TV for first time in the Roots miniseries—those of the African American slaves.

1999 Bare breasts are censored in Eyes Wide Shut via CGI to avoid an NC-17 rating.

2000 American Psycho, a slasher film, cuts 18 seconds of sex workers in a threesome to avoid an NC-17 rating.

2004 Animated puppet breasts are censored in a Team America sex scene.

2004 Nipple-gate—CBS fines Janet Jackson $550,000 for a “wardrobe malfunction” during the Super Bowl halftime show.

2004 Two-second breast shot of elderly cancer patients is cut by NBC’s ER to avoid fines.

2006 According to the documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated, “lesbian boobs” merit an NC-17 rating, while “straight boobs” often get an R.

2013 Nude scenes are trimmed in The Wolf of Wall Street to avoid an NC-17 rating.

2014 Nipples are banned on Instagram, prompting the #FreeTheNipple campaign.

2015 Master artworks by Pablo Picasso and Amedeo Modigliani have nipples blurred on TV news.

2015 On The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert draws a dot in the middle of two circles; Comedy Central censors blur it.

2016 #ManBoobs4Boobs—“man boobs” are shown in breast cancer PSA since female breasts are banned.

2017 Sony shoots two versions of Wedding Crashers; sells copies as censored or uncensored.

2019 Instagram shuts down my account for a photo of tattooed mastectomy patients, including a woman’s reconstructed breasts with nipples.

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