ACCEPTABLE
(Can usually be seen on broadcast television)
Straight, unpierced males within normal anthropometric ranges
Infants—all sexes* (diaper commercials, sitcoms, soap operas)
Obese men covered in team colors
Pre-op transsexuals prior to hormone treatment (clinical males)
Live African women (documentary only)
Gender-nominal Muppets within normal anthropomorphic ranges
Bikini-clad spring-break participants (non-trampoline-jumping)
Girls Gone Wild commercials (up to and just before “flashing” obscured by black boxes)
Actor in gorilla suit (portraying male or female gorilla)
Female athletes in two-piece bodytard swimwear playing beach volleyball
Victoria’s Secret models in nonsheer lingerie
Side view of mammogram patient (local news or documentary)
GRAY AREA
(Station director may opt to not show
to protect morality)
Shirtless gay men partying at Fire Island with pierced nipples
Prepubescent girls* (dramatic works depicting poor children running around tenement)
Obese men with technical breast size of 34C or larger (jumping on trampolines)
Pre-op transsexuals at the beginning stages of hormone treatment (clinical males)
Still photos of dead topless women (crime victims, autopsy documentary)
Miss Piggy in a loose-fitting karate gi/Electric Mayhem guitarist Janice in a halter-top
Bikini-clad Blind Date contestants dancing to the song “Who Let the Dogs Out?”
Women soccer players in sports bras
Runway models displaying saucy French couture
Plastic-surgery enhancement or reduction of breasts (documentary only and only a glance)
Mastectomy patients (documentary only and only a glance)
UNACCEPTABLE
(Immense FCC fines)
Healthy nondiseased postpubescent females from “Christian” countries
Pre-op transsexuals (or “extreme” bar bettors) with implants larger than 32A (clinical males)
Post-op transsexuals (clinical females)
Human “furries” if there is a suggestion of sexual desire (even fully ensconced in costume)
Live African-American women with nipples obscured by metal sheath
Infant females or prepubescent girls if the context is “creepy”
*Some states have laws prohibiting children under the age of 18 to pose or to be exhibited in a state of nudity for purpose of visual reproduction in any medium if there is “lascivious intent.” In other words, one person’s cute picture of their naked kid on a bearskin rug in the wrong hands can be a felony. As always, depravity depends on the mind of the beholder.