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January 26th, 2005

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US Children Still Traumatized: 1-Year Anniversary

US Children Still Traumatized One Year After Seeing Partially Exposed Breast On TV

“How can my son Brandon be expected to make it through something like that unscathed?” asked mother of four Shonali Bhomik of the San Francisco-based What About the Children? Foundation, one of many social-awareness groups spearheading the fight for increased NNBD funding in Congress. “For approximately 1.5 seconds, he saw a breast. The image was seared into his innocent, tiny retinas. He can’t close his eyes without replaying the whole ugly scene over and over in his little head.”

“For the love of God””?that breast was almost nude,” Bhomik added.

“One thing is certain,” Wasserbaum said. “For us as a nation, the horrific consequences of almost-nakedness have only just begun to make themselves apparent.”

Wasserbaum added that children who saw the televised breast in Europe, Australia, and various other nations throughout the world were somehow unaffected by the sight.

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Peter
January 27, 2005
5:40 pm
"the horrific consequences of almost-nakedness"

My, that phrase could be mighty entertaining when used completely out of context. I'll have to remember it.
Curzon
January 27, 2005
5:48 pm
I think the fuss over this has been hilarious -- and not a mumble about the violence you can see on television. Nuts.