{"id":141,"date":"2003-12-05T00:43:21","date_gmt":"2003-12-05T04:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=141"},"modified":"2009-01-20T12:53:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T16:53:14","slug":"sex-and-censorship-at-nyu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2003\/12\/sex-and-censorship-at-nyu\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex and Censorship at NYU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just have a millisecond to blog today, but I couldn&#8217;t pass up the chance to link this story about the (gasp!) despicable censorship at NYU, that well-known bastion of conservative thought.  Apparently they are<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/12\/04\/nyregion\/04MOVI.html\"> refusing to let a film student film actual sex for her film project.<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe article has segments that made me chuckle.  The line &#8220;The student, Paula Carmicino, found two actor friends willing to have sex on camera in front of the class,&#8221; makes me wonder how good of a friend you need to be with someone before you can ask them to have sex with another actor for your film project.  (&#8220;Uh, John, I&#8217;ve got a favor to ask you . . . &#8220;).  <\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the subject of censorship is very serious, and I was a bit surprised by my own reaction to the story.  I hate to be a fan of censorship, (and of course I really hate to say anything good about BYU).  On the other hand, I just can&#8217;t imagine a film student at BYU (it&#8217;s just one letter different from NYU) asking to film her friends having sex for a class project.  And, despite my qualms about censorship, I have the feeling that in this particular case the school did the right thing in preventing her from using a live-sex taping for her class project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just have a millisecond to blog today, but I couldn&#8217;t pass up the chance to link this story about the (gasp!) despicable censorship at NYU, that well-known bastion of conservative thought. Apparently they are refusing to let a film student film actual sex for her film project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6749,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/6749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}