{"id":466,"date":"2007-07-16T09:17:52","date_gmt":"2007-07-15T23:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/16\/not-so-weenie-censorship\/"},"modified":"2007-07-16T09:17:52","modified_gmt":"2007-07-15T23:17:52","slug":"not-so-weenie-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/16\/not-so-weenie-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Not-So-Weenie Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogpics\/censored_weenie.jpg\" align=\"left\" alt=\"The offending image of a nude male statue. \" \/>The German author of a children&#8217;s book has pulled the plug on an American book deal because the publishers demanded that she censor images of nude art in the background of her story.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t even the painted reclining nude woman that caused a problem. Nope. Instead, the publishers were up in arms over a nude male statue, complete with penis.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the article about this describes said penis as &#8220;microscopic.&#8221; I beg to differ. Look at that photo&#8230; to scale, that guy has a monster between his legs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the page, the sculpture stands at a very unthreatening seven millimeters tall and the appendage could, at first glance, be dismissed as a wayward brushstroke. The &#8220;little willy&#8221; as Berner called it &#8220;was barely half a millimeter in length.&#8221; The sculpture is an aside in the overall museum scene and is in no way prominent to the storyline on that page, she added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a penis that&#8217;s one-fourteenth the size of his body. And they called it a &#8220;weenie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I should say, size of the penis doesn&#8217;t matter here, censorship like this is just silly.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German author of a children&#8217;s book has pulled the plug on an American book deal because the publishers demanded that she censor images of nude art in the background of her story. It wasn&#8217;t even the painted reclining nude woman that caused a problem. Nope. Instead, the publishers were up in arms over a nude male statue, complete with penis. Now, the article about this describes said penis as <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/16\/not-so-weenie-censorship\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[910],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","tag-censorship"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}