Censorship in Art - Two Recent Examples

On a not so subtle level, censorship is working again and again. It is sad how we are going back in terms of art and exposure of the body in art works - to a level that not even catholic church assumed a century ago. We are going back to pre-Reaniassance times, and that is happening in the period of one generation. Censorship is becoming awful.

Let's be clear about this: you can access all the porn and nudity you might need or ever want for the rest of your life in the internet. But when it comes to show the butt of a small kid, it's indecent exposure - oh yeah, all those paedophiles out there lloking for record covers! And the body of a woman is indecent all the way, except if you are advertising for some famous brand or social media campaign.

Just look at two very recent examples:

Led Zeppelin - "Houses of the Holy" - the recent reedition features always a sticker or a band covering the childrens butt. In previous versions, there was always a stivker too, except in the original cover.

The Very Shy reedition

Previous Reedition

Original Version

Beady Eye -"BE" -If you google it,  it's increasingly more difficult to find the original version of the album cover since the US released the album, excludind the breast and the nipple.

US Cover

Original Cover

The Shy Cover, with Sticker

By the way, it is an extremely beautiful photograph on the cover. Yes, it´s a woman laying naked and you can see one of her breasts!

How bad is this when compared to the incredible amount of crap the US produces when it comes disgusting TV programs and the language and violence you find in todays' movies, games and children series? I can hear them saying: I am protecting the children!

And let's not forget it all started with that sort of human being that was President of the United States in the 80's, Mr. Ronald Reagan.

How perverse is the mind of these people...