{"id":5032,"date":"2008-12-12T02:45:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T07:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=5032"},"modified":"2010-11-30T04:45:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T09:45:15","slug":"vintage-album-cover-newly-censored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/12\/12\/vintage-album-cover-newly-censored\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Album Cover Newly Censored"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rachel M. sends us this story:\u00a0 The\u00a0cover for the 1976 Scorpions album “Virgin Killer” apparently not considered problematic enough for censorship at the time,<\/span><\/del>\u00a0was pulled from a Wikipedia webpage for being “a potentially illegal indecent image of a child under the age of 18.”\u00a0\u00a0The image,\u00a0included after the jump, features a naked\u00a0prepubescent girl in a provocative pose:<\/p>\n

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According to Wikipedia<\/a>, the album cover immediately spurred protests and it was replaced by the album cover below in some places (thanks to Dubi and Lizzie\u00a0in the\u00a0comments for pointing out my error):<\/p>\n

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This image, as well as the controversy<\/a>, discussed on Wikipedia here<\/a>, brings up questions regarding censorship, historical change,<\/span> child pornography (see also the controversial Calvin Klein ad campaign<\/a>) and, more generally, the sexualization of young girls.\u00a0 See contemporary and historical examples here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>,\u00a0here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.\u00a0 Oh dear.<\/p>\n

And don’t miss this fascinating, and perhaps misguided, attempt<\/a> to fight the sexualization of girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rachel M. sends us this story:\u00a0 The\u00a0cover for the 1976 Scorpions album “Virgin Killer” apparently not considered problematic enough for censorship at the time,\u00a0was pulled from a Wikipedia webpage for being “a potentially illegal indecent image of a child under the age of 18.”\u00a0\u00a0The image,\u00a0included after the jump, features a naked\u00a0prepubescent girl in a provocative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,55,2099,1047,120,23705],"class_list":["post-5032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-pornography","tag-sex","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5032"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30133,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions\/30133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}