Nude Buttocks May Cost ABC $1.4 Million
An unnamed actresses buttocks may become the costliest buttocks to ever appear on television. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed a $1.4 million fine against 52 ABC Television Network stations that are either owned by or affiliated with the network over a 2003 broadcast of the cop drama NYPD Blue.
In the scene that drew the fine, a boy surprises a woman just as she is about to take a shower. The scene apparently depicted “multiple, close-up views” of the woman’s “nude buttocks” according to an FCC order issued late Friday.
The FCC’s definition of indecent content has become quite a topic of conversation over the past few years. The definition for indecent content requires that the broadcast “depicts or describes sexual or excretory activities” in a “patently offensive way” and is aired between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.
The FCC said this episode of NYPD Blue met that definition and should be considered indecent because “it depicts sexual organs and excretory organs â€â€? specifically an adult woman’s buttocks.”
The agency rejected the network’s argument that “the buttocks are not a sexual organ.”
Teenage boys everywhere have “no comment.”
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