He claimed that most societies(and at least the Western ones I've had contact with match that pretty well) shun exposing sexual organs to children. I don't see why the rage. This is not a controversial comment to make.

Not sure. The wikipedia article is quite interesting.. (1) At least when I was a kid, in Germany, it was very common culture to go swimming in the lake without clothes, and with the whole family. (There was a section on that lake where you had to wear bathing clothes. It was nearly empty.)

(1)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturism (also contains pictures of naked people, Sherlock)

edit: Reading on in the German article.. it states that the market for nudist holidays in Germany is estimated to be around 10 million people, 1/8th of the population. Also, Germany seems to be the most relaxed of the Western countries in this issue. The history is quite interesting.

Given that breasts are primarily for small children to drink from, to suggest it is damaging for small children to see them isn't just controversial, it is the height of bewildering and crazy idiocy from someone who must be so unconnected with reality that if they ever accidentally encountered a rational train of thought, they'd probably try to throw themselves under it.

And it wasn't rage, it was accuracy.

Seeing breasts between the ages of 5-12 is highly likely to make your child a forum troll.

Just sayin.

Speaking of trolls... you cannot honestly believe that.

'of" or 'for'?

"of".

Are you not aware of what a troll is? Because you are plainly one.

Breasts aren't sexual organs.

This is the first time I've gotten a youtube comment on HN.

fuckwit?

Nice dodge. He may have been abrasive, but he makes an extremely valid point.

It seemed appropriate given the way you approach sex.

I thought about a more polite way of phrasing it, but nothing else seemed quite as succinct and to the point.

I know I'm feeding the troll, but..

Have a look at what I wrote in context. I didn't make any normative statement. Nothing in that tells you anything about how I approach sex. I was talking about television standards & practices, classification systems, the public perception of what is normal and the interplay between those.

Oh and.. you're a poophead.

I don't care if you don't use normative statements. I wasn't saying that your view of how the world should be is crazy, I was saying that your view of how the world is, is crazy.