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{{quote|''[[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|The center of the Boob is the source of its power]]. It is so powerful in fact that society does not permit its public display for fear of wide spread anarchy, and [[Your Head Asplode|mass headsplosions]].''|''[[Cracked.com]]'', "[http://www.cracked.com/funny-212-boobs/ Boobs]"}}
Though media can safely display much of the female breast, female nipples almost guarantee an [[Media Classifications|R rating]] from the MPAA. They might cost you $550,000 if you show them at half-time during the [[Super Bowl]]. The sight of it is so [[Harmful to Minors]], with [https://web.archive.org/web/20100223085304/http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30883 their delicate psyches], that you must click a release to see it on the Internet. The United States Supreme Court upheld an ordinance requiring strippers to [http://supreme.justia.com/us/529/277/case.html cover it] under a pastie.
What exposure counts as indecent is [[Our Nudity Is Different|a product of a society's mindset]] more than any underlying human cause. Different cultures certainly have different nudity taboos, and one sometimes gets the feeling in the United States that other countries are laughing at the prudery behind our backs. This works the other way round as well; in the western world, a woman can show her legs without legal problems, [[Not So Different|but in some other cultures this is as taboo as the nipple is for the US.]]
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100223085304/http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30883 This ''Onion'' article] satirizes the whole Janet Jackson thing and the question raised here beautifully.
* Loreffrey Photography Studios explores this in ''Nipple Non Grata'', a series of photos of topless women with their nipples photoshopped out.
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