Things seem not to have changed one iota. On the one hand, TV executives just want the problem to go away. Armed with righteous indignation and seemingly endless hypocrisy, these self appointed guardians of decency prattle on and on about declining moral standards, greedy network executives and all sorts of other non-sequiters meant to bolster their OWN self esteem and perhaps to salve their guilty consciences. Ah, but to no avail. A simple age based system is too Big-Brotherish, they exclaim.
Children are to variable, they protest.
The crux of the matter. Now, some people think that any mention of how animals actually reproduce is a subject only suitable for properly equipped adults to deal with. In fact, from listening to some of these prudes talk about sex, I hazard a guess that they are NOT themselves properly equipped. I suppose it is unsuitable for children to watch graphic depictions of the goings on at the Nazi death camps of WW II, or, for that matter, in the death camps of the modern day Serbians. Besides, they can get all the violence they want on the evening news.