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Re:Lego Universe's Dong Detection Problem by belorn on Sunday May 31, 2015 @04:28AM (#9633488)
The first thing about social taboos is that they are culture specific. Sweden for example in the late 90s had a strong censorship regarding violence, while nudity was mostly ignored and quite common in movies made for kids and on family prime time on TV.

As two examples of this, Darkwing Duck was banned since people believed it would cause children to kill other children in the play ground. However during similar prime time hours on TV, a other show called "Bullen" (euphemism for female genitalia) was on, and was about teenage relationships with a large focus on sex education. They address topics like masturbation, homosexuality, and relationship advice in the form of viewer mails being illustrated by actors.

Now days, the Swedish taboo culture has changed to mimic the American one, but one notice remnants always pop up when people suddenly feels that Astrid Lindgren movie adaptations should suddenly be censored since they got naked scenes in them.

Re:Lego Universe's Dong Detection Problem by tim333 on Sunday May 31, 2015 @07:52AM (#9633880)
>culture specific

Bhutan is covered in dick paintings for example and the kids seem fine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus_paintings_in_Bhutan

Re:Lego Universe's Dong Detection Problem by rmc on Sunday May 31, 2015 @09:20AM (#9634067)
Recently there was a children's cartoon about penises and vaginas in sweden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx08UWxXJkI (contains cartoon gentilia).
Re:Lego Universe's Dong Detection Problem by tripzilch on Monday June 01, 2015 @05:31PM (#9642307)
In the Netherlands something similar, who remembers the cartoon "Purno de Purno"? :-) It was glorious, made on a pixelated Amiga, many boobs and sexual innuendo (that went straight past me as a kid), and pretty absurd plotlines (which is why I loved it).
Re:Lego Universe's Dong Detection Problem by anentropic on Sunday May 31, 2015 @03:28PM (#9635235)
Sweden sounds so sane
Re:Lego Universe's Dong Detection Problem by mikro2nd on Sunday May 31, 2015 @05:19AM (#9633601)
I, too, would ban Darkwing Duck; but for simply being terminally irritating, rather than any supposed incitement to kill.

Or maybe it would incite people to want to kill Darkwing Duck...