VIEWERS VIEWS

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33753, 28 January 1975, Page 4

VIEWERS VIEWS

Nudity Some of the comments from viewers tend to create the impression that the nude scenes on our screens recently were of an offensive nature. Perhaps if perverted sexuality, gross obesity, or physical degeneration had been associated with the screenings, some reasons for the caustic remarks appearing in these columns would be clearly evident. What an unfortunate state of affairs when certain writers try to induce others to believe that their bodies and natural functions are ’’filthy,” and so on.

How can children develop healthy attitudes to these matters when some individuals who do not seem to find the human body totally acceptable attempt to thrust contaminated ideals down immature throats?

Perhaps we should not expect too much though, because it seems that some people are not conversant with the fundamental splendours of humanity; or as yet find them difficult to face. — PURIFICATION.

It amazes me how even the merest glimpses of naked flesh cause some people to rush into print with cries of “Sexual corruption!” I find such assertions as positively unhealthy and an insult to the integrity of producers and N.Z.B.C. programme selectors alike, who are practitally being categorised as pornography peddlers. Even the innocent sunlovers, healthy in both body and mind, seemingly caused the hackles to rise among the would-be f‘coverup” campaigners after a recent “Inquiry” expose. If such unabashed naturalness is so upsetting to some they are, after all, not compelled to watch. It seems strange that these same folk don’t show similar enthusiasm in condemning the real immoral force in society, violence, so often seen on screen in raw form in both adult and children’s programmes. Oh well, everyone to his own brand of poison. — ANTIHUMBUG.