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Prime Time TV Language and Movie Ratings
Watching the new shows on TV it appears that the writers have gotten new guidelines so they now pepper conversations with wierd phrases with Vagina, masturbation and Penis as the shock comedy of 2011.
Referring to the fact that his friend has lived with a girl for a long time, the character says "thats like living with the same vagina for three years!" Ha ha ha!
No one I know talks like that! I don't know anyone who wants to talk like that! Its not funny to me.
We recently saw an Owen Wilson film "Hall Pass" that my teens picked out. It had an R rating and included a 60 second zoom in close up of a mans rather large genitals. In my opinion Hall Pass should have been listed as X or Porn. That was the end of watching that film. While Wilson and Adam Sandler can be funny, they and many other comics become so self indulgent that they lower themselves to gross out comedy with all sorts of stuff I don't want to see.
This abnormal use of language, as if it is everday, and these types of movies just seem to reduce human dignity and demean our society.
I guess I am just old fashioned 
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Prime Time TV Language and Movie Ratings
Clearly there are multiple sides to this issue. For the networks they are faced with the fact that many people have DVR's now and don't watch commercials, so Ad revenue is declining. Then there are all the Satelite and Cable channels and the internet with content with no FCC guidelines.
So for the national networks I can understand that as soon as it is OK to do something different they opt to try to create draw from Sat and Cable. So the networks tell the writers to get busy with their new vocabulary.
If you don't have kids its probably a non starter, but for families the forced use of the new vocab in sitcoms and other content brings crude language into content that could be enjoyable without it.
Now on the other hand my 15 year old son listens to rap music that leaves no stone unturned in gutter vocab. So from that perspective the use of medical terms for sexual body parts and slang terminology is really nothing.....
When I was a kid the mere use of crude language meant that someone was angry. Now you have to look at the demeanor of the speaker and determine if what has been said to you is meant in an affable or hostile way. That is an art I have seen some people be very good at, aka Chris Rock etc.... But for me if I swear it never gets any laughs, may have to practice my delivery in front of a mirror.....
Dennis
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