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I'm fine with nudity around children if its tasteful (ex: the birth of venus) but if we're talking about hardcore nudity then no. It should be left for adults.

You bring up many good points. I love all 3 of your examples (their things I like). I've often thought the same thing about that scene in My Neighbor Totoro.

The thing is everyone has a different idea of what should be censored and what's "ok". Also many people are prudes; they think the word v****a is dirty and should not be used. It’s hard to tell the difference between people who legitimately bring up a good point about what is not ok, and the people who are just cry babies and want everything to be repressed.

Have you seen this documentary called "This film is not yet rated"? It brings up many (disturbing) facts about the American film censoring system.

That is a great documentary!
The ESRB video game system of rating is pretty screwed up too.

And speaking of vag*nas, I was not surprised at all that the Perfect Tragedy did not feature anything for the insightful and comedic theater and book hit Vag*na Monolgues.

Also it brings to mind an incident that happened a couple years ago. This man was telling a church room full of visitors and children about the Philipino he knows (I don't recall if the dialect was Illocano or Tagalog) and how ironic the districts Waikiki and Makiki are. Waikiki (tourist spots, nightclubs and bars) means no vag*nas and Makiki (a quiet residential neighborhood) mean lots of them. The host speaker was brain damaged and told this to every one a few times over the course of an hour or so and because he was brain damaged nobody wanted to tell him he was repeating himself. That would be rude, inappropriate and uncalled for. He was just so happy to be able to show off his knowledge of Philipino since there was a Philipino family there. Unfortunately some of the family didn't speak any english and just looked really confused why some guy kept talking about lots of "kiki" and no "kikis".
Yes. Gaia's beloved kitty mascot's name also means, um, 'kitty'

I've spent most of my life in multicultural areas usually surrounded with Asian cultures which have very different takes of what is acceptable.

The religion thing on Gaia is weird too. I doubt that many except radical extremist would sugest censoring the religious content but if you take a look at the items available there are a vast number of god, goddess and deity cosplay items for Shinto, Buddhist, Wiccan, Olympian, Egyptian, and several others belief systems but what items are there for cosplaying followers of the God of Abraham? Is there no demand for these items, would they be too offensive or are Christians, Muslims and Jews being overloode or excluded?
If there aren't items for thes because it's offensive to the God of Abraham faiths, then what does that say about all the Christians Muslims and Jews dressing up as Inari, nekomata, Sidhe and such?

I don't know that hard lines of 'acceptable' can ever really be drawn but vaguely sketching with invisible ink doesn't seems to cause more harm than good. It seems like we sacrifice too much sense and sense of self if we strive to hard to be inoffensive.