CSI's Pornographic Violence

I am not a fan of CSI or the other CSI type crime procedural TV shows. I've found it surprising that the original CSI has been the top-rated show for years. Or near the top when American Idol is on.

I may not be a fan, but I have watched CSI. I find it bizarre that this CBS show shows such an incredibly detailed level of graphically depicted violent mayhem done to human bodies. To me it is like pornographic violence, somehow appealing to some base prurient desire to see things that one would never see in ones real lives.

We live in such an Alice in Wonderland Looking Through the Looking Glass Upside Down World. Where is the concern about kids being exposed to the stuff that is on CSI and its ilk?

The hour before CSI comes on is Survivor's hour. At various times during Survivor a booby may pop out or a pair of shorts may fall too low, exposing a butt cheek or two.

Such random exposures are always blurred out. What is the problem with seeing a booby or a butt bared? Why is that so bad that it requires censoring? Yet an hour later we can see all sorts of bloody malicious mayhem done to a human body and none of it is blurred, it's there in its full high definition ultra realistic glory.

Such a fuss made over the so quick I missed it til I downloaded it from the Internet baring of a little bit of Janet Jackson during a Superbowl Halftime Show that flashes of regularly covered skin was banned from all network TV. That's so ridiculous. Nary a peep about the blood and guts on CSI and its copycats, while all hell breaks loose due to the horror that a kid may have seen something so horrible as part of a woman's breast zone.

I've long given up trying to make sense of the world I live in. Now I just comfort myself complaining about it.